Calls have triggered huge deployments of law enforcement and caused panic at schools, churches and other institutions. But ...

A “swatting call” is a dangerous and illegal prank in which the caller claims a life-threatening emergency at a specific ...

A state senator from Southern California introduced a bill to allow prosecutors to charge people who make "swatting" calls ...

A theft of a number of chickens — which may have been driven by rising egg prices — has left staff and students at a Tasmanian college upset. Claremont College teacher Anna Branch said she ...

The Department of Homeland Security defines swatting as “making malicious hoax calls to emergency services to falsely report an ongoing emergency such as a violent crime or explosive device at a ...