Ex-soldier lied about injuries on 'American Idol'

American Idol rarely gives a singer's full story during its audition-round segments, but rarely is the show as far off the mark as it was with Matt Farmer.

Farmer, who claimed to be a soldier injured in an roadside-bomb explosion while serving in Iraq, fabricated much of the tale he told on Idol, it turns out.

Not long after Farmer's audition where he sang Sam Cook's A Change Is Gonna Come, the...