Breana Harmon Talbott now faces a misdemeanor charge of filing a false report.
Publication: Crime
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Multiple people were injured and at least two were killed before police shot the suspected attacker.
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Many Facebook users misinterpreted a post about missing children in Indiana as suggestive of a wave of abductions occurring in that state.
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A lawmaker in Delaware was meeting with officials at one facility when it was hit with a threat by phone.
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News reports conflated a genuine incident of human trafficking with a completely unrelated claim that traffickers used shirts on windshields as bait.
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A parent's complaint about iPad app Roblox led to rumors that the game exposes children to predators' advances.