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Royal Dutch Shell shuts down Nigeria oil pipeline
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has shut down a pipeline in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta after a fire and a suspected attempt to steal crude from ...
Evidence tossed at start of papal butler's trial
The pope's once-trusted butler went on trial Saturday for allegedly stealing papal documents and passing them off to a journalist in the worst ...
Jury: Death for arsonist convicted of 5 murders
A jury on Friday recommended death for an arsonist convicted of murdering five men who died of heart attacks during a wildfire that ripped through ...
Warning signs seen before actor's violent end
An attorney said Friday he believes a drug-induced psychosis was responsible for an outburst by an actor that police say ended in the slaying of his ...
Baltimore police uncover 1951 Renoir theft report
Police have located a 60-year-old theft report from the day a Renoir painting disappeared from the Baltimore Museum of Art that matches the ...
Did the butler do it? A Q&A on the Vatican trial
The Vatican has never seen anything like it. Pope Benedict XVI's trusted butler, who dressed the pontiff each morning, attended his daily Mass and ...
Pope's ex-butler goes on trial for leaked papers
There was a time when a Vatican trial could end with a heretic being burned at the stake. Paolo Gabriele doesn't risk nearly as dire a fate, but he ...
Deputies: Attempted burglar found asleep on floor
Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call say they found a 20-year-old man asleep on the kitchen floor of a home in Oregon. The Washington ...
Rio employees accused of stealing London documents
In an embarrassing episode for the host of the next Summer Olympics, 10 employees of Rio de Janeiro's 2016 committee have been fired after being ...
Panetta talks computer hacking issues with Chinese
Despite several years of escalating diplomacy and warnings, the U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese ...
Checks stolen from Obama campaign headquarters
Three checks for campaign services have been stolen from President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters in Chicago. Midwest Press Secretary ...
Theft trial for papal butler starts next week
Pope Benedict XVI's ex-butler and another Vatican lay employee will go on trial next week in the embarrassing theft of papal documents that exposed ...
Neighbor: NY rape suspect terrorized W.Va. women
The man accused of raping an elderly woman in New York's Central Park frightened people for years in his tiny West Virginia hometown, where a neighbor ...
Tip nabs alleged 'Bucket List Bandit' in Okla.
Authorities knew they would need a lucky break to catch a middle-aged bank robber who pulled off a dizzying number of heists in a three-month crime ...
NY rape suspect eyed in 2002 murder of W.Va. woman
A drifter accused of brazenly raping an elderly woman in broad daylight in New York's Central Park was a person of interest in a 2002 slaying in his ...
NJ pharmacist fires on holdup man, foils robbery
A New Jersey pharmacist who is also an Army reservist pulled out a handgun and fired several shots at a would-be robber as he chased him from his ...
Bank heist suspects hurl cash during LA chase
Suspected bank robbers fleeing county sheriff's deputies hurled cash from a speeding SUV on Wednesday, drawing people into the streets until a pickup ...
High-speed chase after bank heist
A wild pursuit of bank robbers across Southern California has come to an end with the capture of two men who had hurled cash out of their SUV's ...
Cops: Man tried to pay bartender with his own card
Police in Miami Beach say a homeless man broke into a car, stole a credit card and then tried to use it to buy a beer — from the bartender the card ...
Experts say fake bomb used in Calif. bank robbery
Bomb squad experts concluded Tuesday that the suspicious box an armed bank robber left at a Moreno Valley bank was a fake bomb. The robbery occurred ...
Tunisian police detained on torture suspicions
Tunisian authorities say four police officers have been detained on suspicion they tortured a robbery suspect who later died. Tunisia's Interior ...
NY police accidentally shoot shop worker to death
A police officer shot and killed a convenience store worker who plowed into him on a sidewalk while frantically fleeing an armed robbery early Friday, ...
Jordan: US missionary stabbed to death by teenager
A Jordanian teenager stabbed to death a Texas missionary living in the kingdom during an argument that broke out when she caught him stealing from her ...
Police: Man broke into deli, stole cash and meat
A bag of stolen cold cuts has landed a northeastern Pennsylvania man in the cooler. Police say Leonard Taylor broke into a Dickson City deli, made ...