The mother of the Colorado boy once feared missing aboard a runaway helium balloon has admitted to investigators that the saga that gripped much of the United States was a hoax, court records showed. Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden already said last week that eccentric amateur scientist Richard Heene and his Japanese-born wife Mayumi fabricated the October 15 "balloon boy ...

Richard Heene provided a glimpse of the chaos he was about to spark this week when he described for a national TV audience in March his belief that aliens are humanity's ancestors, his latest madcap inventions and his unconventional approach ...

The family of a 6-year-old boy who set off a nationally televised scramble when he was thought to be in a balloon over Colorado has been featured twice in the ABC show "Wife Swap." Falcon, the son of Richard and Mayumi ...

A New Jersey mother once featured on the reality show "Wife Swap" has been accused of stabbing her husband. Jamie Czerniawski tells The New York Post it was self-defense. Her husband's lawyer denies that. She is charged in Monmouth County with aggravated assault and is free ...