A little more than a week after apologizing for running a story connecting Sean "Diddy" Combs with the 1994 nonfatal shooting of Tupac Shakur, the paper has formally retracted the piece after concluding the report was based on falsified evidence and "relied heavily on information that The Times no longer believes to be credible."

The original article, titled "An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War," was published March 17 and alleged, based on bogus FBI documents, that three associates of Combs' orchestrated an assault on Shakur - more on this story

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