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'Balloon Boy' Family Reunited With Balloon

(May 20) -- The glistening, aluminum-foil-wrapped helium balloon that transfixed American television audiences who believed it might be carrying a helpless 6-year-old boy has been returned to the man who built it -- but not without a little more controversy. Richard and Mayumi Heene arrrived at the Larimer County...

Balloon Boy Mom's Interviews Contradict Husband

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Jan. 23) - A newly released video shows the mother of the 6-year-old boy purported to be in a runaway balloon finally acknowledging to authorities it was all a hoax - contrary to her husband's repeated public denials just before reporting to jail. The video interviews obtained by the Fort Collins...

Father in Balloon Boy Hoax Reports to Jail

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Jan. 11) -- The Colorado man who admitted orchestrating the balloon boy hoax reported to jail Monday to begin a 90-day jail sentence. Richard Heene pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant after the Oct. 15 saga that captivated a national television audience. But Heene now says he...

Father Denies 'Balloon Boy' Spectacle Was Hoax

(Jan. 7) -- A man who pleaded guilty to perpetrating a hoax by falsely reporting that his son was drifting over eastern Colorado in a balloon maintains in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live" that the incident was not part of a plan for fame. Richard Heene pleaded guilty in November to a felony count of attempting...

Bird Brains Compete for 'Turkey of the Year'

Just how did the turkey -- a bird native to North America -- become synonymous with thoughtless, annoying people, so often overstuffed with jive? Let's face it, some of our nominees for 2009 Turkey of the Year wouldn't be welcome at any Thanksgiving dinner. So, with no further ado, let's look at some of the year's most...

Background on Mayumi Heene

The balloon boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colorado, when Richard and Mayumi Heene allowed a gas balloon filled with helium to float away into the atmosphere, and then claimed that their six-year-old son Falcon was inside it.

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