Deputies searched the home of a couple caught up in Colorado's "balloon boy" saga after the sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in a case that at first sparked fear for the child, then relief he was okay, to suspicions of a hoax.
A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants.
But Ray's self-help empire was thrown into turmoil when two of his followers died after collapsing in the makeshift sweat lodge near Sedona and 19 others were hospitalized.
A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation.
The family's background and some strange developments since the scare have raised questions about whether the family cooked up a hoax as publicity stunt, though police say that is unlikely
The father of the 6-year-old Colorado boy who was thought to have been speeding through the sky for hours in a high-soaring homemade helium balloon is a self-described "storm chaser" who now finds himself at the center of another kind of squall.
SHREVEPORT — Local Shreveport officials are looking to make bus stops safer around the area.
The concern comes after this month's rape and kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl from a Caddo school.
SHREVEPORT — Caddo sheriff's deputies are investigating an early morning home invasion.
The invasion happened on Oak Grove Lane in Shreveport.
Officials say the homeowner woke up to someone kicking in the front door of his house.
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