KPHO: Child Abducted Seven Years Ago Turns Up in Chandler -- Which is Kinda True

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If you checked the KPHO website this afternoon, you might be thinking a child who mysteriously vanished from Canada seven years ago turned up over the weekend with a strange woman at a laundromat in Chandler.

Here's a link (although, the story has since been changed from its original version).

That's kinda what happened -- although, it's not quite as sensational as the CBS affiliate made it out to be.

The KPHO story gives the impression that the now 10-year-old boy was abducted from his Canadian parents in 2004. What KPHO leaves out of its story is that the woman with whom he was found in Chandler actually is his mother, and the "abduction" is more a parental-custody dispute than a mysterious, Jaycee Dugard-esque kidnapping.

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KPHO Thinks Ugly Dog Might be Chupacabra

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If you think you saw one of these guys galloping around Goodyear last week, you didn't.
This just in: a naked leprechaun was spotted trying to buy crystal meth from a north Phoenix drug dealer early Saturday morning -- which is about as believable as KPHO's latest attempt at "telling it like it is."

The local TV news station is under the impression that there was a potential chupacabra sighting in Goodyear last week.

As you know, chupacabras don't actually exist, and the animal seen in the video the station is citing as evidence is more likely an ugly dog, or malnourished coyote, than the blood-slurping focus of urban legends.

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