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When James Koenig's 18-year-old daughter Samantha disappeared, he put his phone number on posters announcing a reward for information about her. He has since been harassed by false tippers and psychics seeking a payday. Koenig is the latest parent of a missing child, like the parents of Holly Bobo and Travis Baker, to be tormented by hucksters and cruel pranksters who seek either money or twisted amusement.
As investigators pore over the gutted Washington state home of Josh Powell for evidence explaining how and why he murdered his two sons and killed himself in a gas explosion, the man's best friend says that it was likely not done as revenge against his missing wife because " all he ever thought about was himself."
The beleaguered Los Angeles elementary school that had two teachers arrested for child sex abuse in the past week was closed today as authorities moved to replace the entire teaching and support staff. The school closure comes as an attorney for students who were alleged victims implicated a third teacher in the sex abuse scandal.
(Image Credit: Julio Cortez/AP Photo) The New England Patriots aren’t the only ones who had a bad Super Bowl Sunday. Counterfeiters and vendors trying to make a buck hawking fake NFL t-shirts, caps and souvenirs, found themselves in the cross hairs of a federal crackdown...
Fifty years after she says she lost her virginity to the president, Mimi Alford is coming forward to detail her 18-month affair with John F. Kennedy. Alford, now a 69-year-old grandmother, says in a book that Kennedy seduced her in the first lady’s bedroom when...











