Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Courtesy of Netflix - Netflix (hearst_womens_health_52) Netflix's newest true-crime series Web of Make Believe: ...

In Netflix's latest true-crime series Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet, five true, chilling stories of digital deception and distortion are told, revealing how the internet has ...

A California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for making a hoax 911 call about a hostage situation in Kansas that ended up with police fatally shooting an innocent man. Tyler Rai Barriss ...

A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to making dozens of hoax phone calls during which he reported fake crimes, including one high-profile call last year that resulted in another man in Wichita, ...

What just happened? More than five years after 28-year-old Andrew Finch was killed by police in the first fatal US swatting incident, the city of Wichita, Kansas, has reached a $5 million settlement ...

WICHITA, Kan. -- An Ohio gamer upset about a $1.50 bet while playing Call of Duty: WWII online was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for recruiting a prankster to make a bogus emergency call ...

An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial “swatter” to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. “Swatting” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 25-year-old Wichita man who was recently released from prison after serving a sentence for his involvement in the 2017 fatal ...

An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial “swatter” to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. “Swatting” ...