Investigators still working on balloon boy case, charges may not come until next week

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Investigators pored over e-mails, phone records and financial documents from the home of Richard Heene on Monday as they weighed felony charges and sought to determine who else might have helped the alleged balloon-boy hoax get off the ground.

Colorado Sheriff confirms balloon boy incident was hoax

WASHINGTON - Authorities in Colorado have confirmed the balloon boy incident was a hoax.

A couple of weeks earlier, 6-year-old Falcon Heene’s parents, Richard and Mayumi had raised alarm that the kid had flown off in a homemade balloon, only to be later found hiding at home.

Attorney representing parents at center of balloon boy saga expects charges to be filed

NEW YORK — The attorney for the couple whose family is at the center of the now-infamous balloon boy saga says he expects authorities to file charges against the 6-year-old’s parents by the end of the day Monday or sometime Tuesday.

Family of boy in Colorado who was thought to be in balloon featured twice on ABC’s ‘Wife Swap’

NEW YORK — 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.”

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