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

Mystery surrounding driver who reported stuck gas pedal deepens as attorney fights back at Congressional memo. This much is not in dispute: Inspectors could not duplicate the sudden, unintended acceleration that a motorist reported last week when his Toyota Prius reached 94 mph on a California freeway. They tried during a two-hour test drive.

Despite her husband's claims to the contrary, Balloon Boy mom Mayumi Heene repeatedly confessed that the family staged the hoax ...

The Colorado man who admitted orchestrating the balloon boy hoax reported to jail Monday to begin a 90-day jail sentence....

An unapologetic Richard Heene maintains in an interview with CNN's Larry King he believed his 6-year-old son Falcon was aboard ...

Richard Heene is sentenced to 90 days in jail, including 60 days work release, for fabricating a story that his son had been carried off by a homemade balloon. His wife gets 20 days.

The Colorado parents in the "balloon boy" case will plead guilty to offenses for creating a hoax that their son had flown away in a large balloon.

A special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate allegations the Larimer County sheriff violated privacy laws in the case ...

A mother's confession that she and her husband faked their 6-year-old son's disappearance in a runaway balloon shouldn't have been made public, an attorney for the father said.

The wife of a Colorado father at the center of the "balloon boy" saga told authorities that the giant helium balloon was specifically created for a hoax to draw media attention, according to court documents released Friday.