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Reward offered for jewel box taken from museum
The Oakland Museum of California offered a $12,000 reward Wednesday for the safe recovery of a stolen gold-encrusted jewel box — the latest in a ...
Police: Fla. clerk's gun beats thief's cattle prod
Authorities say a Florida Panhandle man has been arrested after he tried to rob a convenience store with a cattle prod but was thwarted by a clerk ...
Va. man pleads guilty to theft of Obama van
A Richmond man has pleaded guilty to stealing a truck containing President Barack Obama's audio equipment. Eric Brown entered his plea Wednesday in U.
Records: Iowa murder suspect fantasized about rape
A 21-year-old Iowa man accused of killing his mother and abducting a woman after being released from prison last week underwent treatment as a ...
Greece: Heavily-armed robbers to face life in jail
Greek lawmakers are seeking to contain a spate of attacks by armed robbers using military assault rifles by upping the maximum sentence for such ...
Fast-food robber suspect returns to eat, is nabbed
Officials say a suspected robber of a suburban Detroit restaurant who apparently returned months later to get some food is under arrest after being ...
2nd recaptured bank robber appears in court
Shackled in chains and pushed in a wheelchair by U.S. marshals, a bank robber who was captured more than two weeks after fleeing a high-rise Chicago ...
Feds: 2nd inmate who escaped Chicago jail captured
Weeks after a pair of bank robbers made a daring escape from a downtown Chicago high-rise jail, police said Friday they captured the last of the two ...
Charges dropped in Chicago high-rise jail escape
A convicted bank robber no longer face charges for climbing out of a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago on a rope made of bed sheets and leading ...
Thieves break into Paris' flagship Apple store
Masked and armed thieves used the New Year's Eve fete to rob the flagship Apple store in Paris. The French press reported that up to €1 million ($1.
NC man accused of stealing meteorites
Authorities in southern North Carolina have made one arrest following the theft of 100 meteorites from a science education center and are searching ...
Hepatitis C tests continue after NH tech's arrest
Hospitals across the country recommended hepatitis C testing for about 7,900 patients last summer after a traveling medical worker was accused of ...
Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents
Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking ...
Lawyer: Man likely back in Chicago jail he escaped
A convicted bank robber captured days after a daring escape from a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago will likely return to the same federal lockup, ...
FBI: Escaped inmates took cab near Chicago jail
Two convicted bank robbers who pulled off a daring overnight escape from a high-rise Chicago jail had changed from their prison garb by the time they ...
Spokane robbery suspect tackled, caught on tape
Instead of letting a robber get away, a witness to a convenience store stickup in Spokane, Wash., caught the armed man and held him for police.
Alabama Shakes lead singer robbed in Nashville
Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes is unharmed after being robbed at gunpoint over the weekend. Nashville police say Howard and four others that ...
2 inmates escape from high-rise jail in Chicago
Two bank robbers pulled off a daring escape from downtown Chicago's high-rise jail Tuesday by apparently scaling down about 20 stories using a ...
Spain frees ex-HSBC employee wanted by Switzerland
Spain's National Court on Tuesday granted conditional freedom to a former HSBC bank employee who is wanted by Switzerland for stealing confidential ...
Final celebrity burglary defendant enters plea
The final defendant in a group charged with burglarizing celebrities' homes pleaded no contest Friday to receiving a jacket stolen from Paris Hilton.
Calif. robbery spurs chase, long campus lockdown
A state university where some 10,000 students were locked down for hours reopened Thursday as authorities tried to track two robbers who managed to ...
Police search Calif. campus for robbery suspects
Students at Cal State Fullerton who barricaded themselves inside classrooms and dorm rooms Wednesday afternoon prepared to stay put into the night as ...
Handcuffed suspect who took squad car arrested
Police say the theft suspect who managed to escape from the back of police squad car while handcuffed and make his getaway in the car has been ...
Correction: Gang Indictment story
In a story Dec. 6 about a racketeering indictment against dozens of alleged gang members, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of ...
Dog theft case ripples through New Mexico town
The cases were often heartbreaking: Families coming home to find their dogs had vanished from inside houses, behind locked fences and outdoor kennels ...