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Tuesday, February 12, 2013  A Montana television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse. The network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station Monday.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013  Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013  A story that Notre Dame Heisman finalist Manti Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker.

Saturday, August 18, 2012  Syracuse police say Bobby Loper Jr., 16, is facing a misdemeanor charge after faking his own abduction.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012  The apparent attempted abduction of a woman in the Price Chopper parking lot has turned out to be a hoax.  Three teens admitted their involvement tonight to the Syracuse Police.

Thursday, December 08, 2011  Troopers say a hoax e-mail is going around that appears to be from New York State Police or the Los Angeles Department of Motor Vehicles.

Sunday, October 16, 2011  Recreation, on the anniversary of the 1869 hoax

Thursday, July 14, 2011  A 46-year-old man pleads not guilty to federal charges of sending anthrax hoax letters to U.S. District Court Clerk's offices in Syracuse and several other cities across the country.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011  State Troopers say an email claiming to have a traffic ticket is really a virus.

Friday, June 24, 2011  A Town of Onondaga woman accused of faking a cancer diagnosis so she could make money from a benefit will spend the next 5 years on probation.

Tuesday, May 03, 2011  It's one of the most searched items on the web right now, but if you click on Osama bin Laden death pictures you'll get several sites offered - with gruesome images that are Photoshopped.  But, beware!

Thursday, August 26, 2010  People are clamoring for information about an amazing spectacle involving the red planet Mars.

Friday, August 20, 2010  Investigators say a local woman faked a cancer diagnosis so she could make money off a benefit planned in her honor.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010  The parents who pleaded guilty in the balloon boy hoax have agreed to pay about $36,000 in restitution to authorities who responded to the incident.

Thursday, May 28, 2009  A suburban mother who claimed she and her daughter had been abducted and stuffed in a car trunk is in custody in Florida after the pair were found at Disney World, where they had flown hours after the mother reporting their abduction, a prosecutor said Wednesday.