Disgraced banker R. Allen Stanford’s pitch to investors was equal parts glamour and flattery.

A mother plans to apologize after she was charged with telling church members her child had cancer and needed money for a kidney transplant and then pocketing the cash.

The Pentagon’s intelligence arm is adding more polygraph studios and relying on outside contractors for the first time to conduct lie detection tests in an attempt to screen its 5,700 prospective and current employees every year.

A male who lied to Sheboygan police to hide his unpaid traffic citations almost got himself into far more serious trouble. Police said they stopped a vehicle Saturday for improper registration. One passenger identified himself to police, who ran a check..

Millions of readers who bought James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” were sold something less than the truth.After the best-selling “memoir” was found to be laced with fabrications, buyers around the country sued, saying they had been misled.But in...

Millions of readers who bought James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” were sold something less than the truth. After the best-selling “memoir” was found to be laced with fabrications, buyers around the country sued, saying they had been misled. But...

Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.The China Daily newspaper reported on its Web site that the woman, identified only by her surname...

A law that bars political candidates from deliberately lying about their opponents is unconstitutional, a sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.Justices in the majority of the 5-4 decision said the 1999 law, already rejected by a lower...