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5 March 2013 Last updated at 11:04 ET A building was evacuated due to the Great Victoria Street alert A security alert in Belfast city centre has ended and been declared a hoax. The alert started after the discovery of a suspicious object at a building on Great Victoria Street. The building was evacuated and Army bomb disposal officers were sent to examine the object. They declared it a hoax. Read More @ Source The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation? A letter has surfaced claimed to be written by a former music executive who says he witnessed a secret meeting in 1991 where the prison industrial complex encouraged the music industry to promote rap artists who glorify crime with the goal of encouraging listeners to get locked up in prison, so the private prisons could make more money. It's a very interesting read, but unless others come forward and confirm his story, there is no way to ...

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A person who called in a hoax about a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus over the weekend said the gunman was a staff member looking for revenge after the suicide of an Internet activist accused of illegally using MIT computers, the institute said. MIT executive vice president Israel Ruiz wrote in a campus-wide email on Wednesday that the caller indicated the gunman "was retaliating against people involved in the suicide of Aaron Swartz," the Boston Herald reported. Ruiz wrote that MIT's president was identified as the target. Swartz killed himself in New York last month while awaiting trial on charges he used MIT's computer network to illegally download nearly 5 million academic articles from an online clearinghouse for scholarly journals. Critics blame federal prosecutors for his suicide, saying they insisted he plead guilty to all 13 felony charges he faced and serve four to six months in prison or go to trial and face up to 35 years...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — The Pacific Ocean either swallowed an adventurous couple and two young children aboard a sailboat off the Monterey coast this week, or someone played a cruel hoax that wasted Coast Guard resources and tugged at the hearts of coastal residents over two days of desperate searching. The Coast Guard on Tuesday called off the search for a boat that reportedly sank in rough seas far off the Central California coast, saying nothing more could be done and that the family's distress calls might have been a hoax. "We've exhausted the possibilities," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz said. The Coast Guard is treating the incident as a rescue, with the possibility the calls came from a trickster. Neither the family nor the boat has been reported missing. Crews started looking for the family by sea and air after receiving their first distress call Sunday afternoon, when the boaters said their 29-foot sailboat was taking on water and thei...

Former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o tells ABC-TV host Katie Couric during an interview for "Katie," in New York that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist. The interview will air on Thursday, Jan. 24. ((AP Photo/Disney-ABC, Lorenzo Bevilaqua) ) The more that the hoax behind Manti Te'o's and his fake girlfiend, "Lennay Kekua," unravels, the more surreal it seems. The Stanford University alumna fell in love with Mr. Te'o, survived a car accident, and died of leukemia months later. Also, she never existed. A Deadspin report from Jan. 16 details inconsistencies in the media about their love story, from when the two met to when exactly she died. Using public records and social media sites, Deadspin revealed that Ms. Kekua was the creation of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a former high school quarterback from California who became a religious musician. Since then, Mr. Tuiasosopo has admitted to the...

A person who called in a hoax about a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus over the weekend said the gunman was a staff member looking for revenge after the suicide of an Internet activist accused of illegally using MIT computers, the institute said. MIT executive vice president Israel Ruiz wrote in a campus-wide email on Wednesday that the caller indicated the gunman "was retaliating against people involved in the suicide of Aaron Swartz," the Boston Herald reported. Ruiz wrote that MIT's president was identified as the target. Swartz killed himself in New York last month while awaiting trial on charges he used MIT's computer network to illegally download nearly 5 million academic articles from an online clearinghouse for scholarly journals. Critics blame federal prosecutors for his suicide, saying they insisted he plead guilty to all 13 felony charges he faced and serve four to six months in prison or go to trial and face up to 35 years...

The hoax caller whose phony tip of a campus gunman brought SWAT officers swarming to MIT last Saturday claimed the shooter was a staff member seeking revenge for the suicide of folk-hero hacker Aaron Swartz, school 
officials said. "The caller indicated that the alleged gunman was retaliating against people involved in the suicide of Aaron Swartz," Massachusetts Institute of Technology executive vice president and treasurer Israel Ruiz wrote in an email distributed campuswide yesterday. Ruiz said MIT President Rafael Reif was identified in the hoax as the gunman's intended target. Ruiz wrote that the caller named a specific MIT staffer, saying the staffer had "a really big gun" and body armor, and was "getting out of control." The staff member was "found not to be connected to the incident in any way," Ruiz wrote. The caller used a Sprint relay message service designed for people with hearing or speech impediments in the 7:30 a.m. cal...