11.   Starr indicated that reporters were being fed false rumors about his staff and said he wanted to find their source.

12.   That order came only after a false rumor that a third hijacked plane might be on the way, Blaich said.

13.   The hysteria over the false rumors relented, but the reality that replaced it has proven not much more hospitable.

14.   The rape turned out to be a false rumor.

15.   There was a false rumor that Bill Russell would do the honors, but the task fell to Cedric Maxwell.

16.   Young blames fellow Memphis businessman Roy Adams, a former friend, of spreading false rumors about him on the internet.

17.   Police in Jakarta told reporters the mob wrongly believed a false rumor that the officer had been murdered by a colleague.

18.   Agapov said that hours earlier, false rumors were circulated that supporters of Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev had seized the airport.

19.   Alkhazur Khasukhanov, chief of staff for rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, said the announcement was a false rumor.

20.   Bill Hayden, a former Labor leader and governor-general, told a court Wednesday about false rumors that Keating had an extramarital affair and liked young boys.