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Lawyer: No Colorado crime in Texas polygamy calls

P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 1:26pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- An attorney for a Colorado woman says Texas authorities don't believe she had any "criminal involvement" in telephone calls that may have triggered a raid on a Texas polygamist group.

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(BARRY GUTIERREZ/The Associated Press) Richard Heene, right, and his wife Mayumi arrive at the Laramie County Detention Center where Heene turned himself in to begin his 90-day jail sentence on Monday in Fort Collins, Colo.

Father in Colo. balloon boy hoax reports to jail

P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 11, 2010 - 2:45pm

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

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(The Associated Press) Richard Heene (right) rubs his mouth as a judge sentences him to 90 days jail time and 4 years probation on Dec. 23, in Fort Collins, Colo., in connection with the "Balloon Boy" hoax. His attorney David Lane is pictured at left.

Father in Colorado balloon boy saga denies hoax

P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 8:41pm

DENVER -- The Colorado father who pleaded guilty to a felony in the runaway balloon saga insisted in an interview set to air Friday that the event wasn't a hoax.

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Investigators: Balloon boy parents acted alone

P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 12:17pm

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Colorado couple Richard and Mayumi Heene acted alone when they fabricated a story about their son floating off in a runaway balloon to gain publicity, sheriff's officials said Monday.

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Six-year-old Falcon Heene sits cross-legged on the roof of his family's van outside his home in Fort Collins, Colo., after the little boy was found hiding in a box in a space above the garage on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Falcon Heene at first had been reported to be aboard a flying-saucer-shaped balloon fashioned by his father and then carried by high winds on to the plains of eastern Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Morning after: Balloon boy gets sick twice on TV

Ivan Moreno, P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 16, 2009 - 8:05am

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The father of a 6-year-old boy who was thought to be in a helium balloon that floated away said Friday accusations that the ordeal was a publicity stunt are "extremely pathetic." The sheriff said he will be asking more questions.

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