Colorado sheriff's deputies launched a massive search for a man wanted for stabbing a park ranger — only to learn the reported attack was an "elaborate hoax," officials said Thursday. Callum Heskett, ...

A seasonal park ranger accused of creating a stabbing hoax at Colorado's Staunton State Park last month had lasted only nine months in a job as a police officer before the incident. Callum Heskett, 26 ...

A Colorado park ranger who claimed to have been attacked and stabbed has been arrested after investigators determined his story was allegedly part of a hoax that prompted authorities to launch a ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following account is based on an arrest warrant affidavit, court and personnel records, and agency news releases. As massive granite outcroppings dotted with evergreen trees jutted ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado park ranger who agency officials say stabbed himself in an “elaborate hoax” last month previously washed out of police training after a ...

It was a horrifying tale that spread fear around a Colorado state park: An attacker stabbed a wildlife ranger on Tuesday and ran away, prompting a search and an evacuation of the park. The ranger, ...