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Police: Potato chip trail led to Pa. suspect
Police say they followed a trail of potato chips to catch a southwestern Pennsylvania burglary suspect. Washington police say 21-year-old Benjamin ...
2 ex-Argentine dictators convicted in baby thefts
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years Thursday for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners ...
German spy agency faces shake-up in neo-Nazi case
The case horrified Germany, a nation where the Hitler era still casts a long shadow: a small band of neo-Nazis suspected of killing ethnic Turks and ...
Sci-fi policing: predicting crime before it occurs
Los Angeles police are aiming to beat suspects to the scene of a crime by using computers to predict where trouble might occur. The Los Angeles Police ...
Worries about vote buying despite Mexican reforms
Political reforms in Mexico have made it much harder to steal an election, officials say. But a lot of people think you can still buy one. As voters ...
U2 bassist's ex-aide guilty of stealing millions
An Irish jury unanimously found a former aide to U2 bassist Adam Clayton guilty of embezzlement Friday after she spent more than €2.8 million ($3.
Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
Hackers broke into computers at hotel giant Wyndham Worldwide Corp. three times in two years and stole credit card information belonging to hundreds ...
Warriors coach Mark Jackson target of extortion
Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson said Thursday that he and his family were the targets of an extortion attempt related to an extramarital ...
Greece: 2 hurt in attack on soccer coach's home
Two people were wounded in a shootout after armed robbers invaded the Athens home of PAOK Thessaloniki football (soccer) coach Giorgos Donis and ...
NY man gets 7 years prison for rare document theft
A presidential memorabilia collector who has acknowledged stealing thousands of rare and valuable documents from historical societies and archives ...
Police: 5 suspected of stealing 9.5 tons of garlic
Austrian police did not need sniffing dogs to locate this suspected heist — 9.5 tons of garlic. The Austria Press Agency says police stopped three ...
Man robs bank, drives to police station, confesses
A suburban Portland man says he was so moved by a documentary exploring the cause of the Great Recession that he decided to rob a bank. But apparently ...
Court bars mandatory life without parole for kids
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out mandatory life in prison without parole for juveniles. The ruling continued its trend of holding that children ...
NY crooks nab left shoe in 1 shop, right from 2nd
Thieves in New York City have started a new sneaker trend. The New York Post reports (http://nyp.st/PZu5d2 ) that crooks have figured out they can ...
Ex-Pearl Jam management exec charged with theft
A man who worked as the chief financial officer for Pearl Jam's management company has been charged with 33 counts of theft. In charges filed earlier ...
Tasty loot in Spain as crisis spawns crop theft
Drop those cherries, you're under arrest. Crops and cops are converging along Spain's journey through economic crisis: People enduring hardship are ...
Texas teen in police beating video case rearrested
As he testified last month at the first of potentially several trials of ex-Houston police officers accused of beating him during a 2010 burglary ...
40 years on, Watergate crime scene is forgotten
When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings on the western edge of the nation's capital. Then, 40 years ago ...
Tantalizing what if's 40 years after Watergate
Watergate's "what ifs" are still tantalizing. What if a security guard hadn't noticed tape on a door latch outside Democratic headquarters at the ...
Puerto Rican takes plea deal in 1983 Conn. robbery
One of the last defendants in the 1983 robbery of $7 million from an armored car depot pleaded guilty Friday to his role in the record-setting heist, ...