Lost Purse Containing $43,000 Is Returned
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CASPER, Wyo. - Two college students returned a lost purse to its owner, not knowing the handbag contained her life savings of $43,000.  Derek Hepner and Adam Simanton spotted the purse lying in the gutter of a Casper street Monday as they drove past it.
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Description: A major heist at the main office of Northern Bank in Belfast nets approximately $43 million. Two bank executives assisted in the robbery after members of their families were kidnapped and threatened.
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HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.  Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--HARRISON COUNTY -- Investigators checking a complaint of a missing purse believe a suspect posed as a FEMA inspector to steal it from an elderly woman's FEMA trailer.
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SOUTH OGDEN, Utah - Zachary Hayden liked the car so much, he only needed to stop at the bank to get some money. The problem is, police said, he didn't have an account there...
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Film star Lindsay Lohan had a   handbag stolen at London's Heathrow airport on Thursday, her   spokeswoman said.
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Tina Orkin thought she was making a routine return. She had her receipt, the tags were on the item, the item was undamaged and she was within the 60-day time period set for such transactions.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Oct. 5, 2004 - Police on Tuesday recovered a suitcase that had been stolen from George Harrison&#39;s sister as she donated Beatles memorabilia to Bill Clinton&#39;s presidential library.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. A camera phone -- and its quick-thinking owner -- are being credited with solving a robbery. The victim is a limo driver who was washing his car in Nashville, Tennessee, today.
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By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--COLUMBUS -- A thief made away with a state government computer backup "storage device" containing the names and COLUMBUS numbers of more than 64,000 state employees, prompting Gov. Ted Strickland to issue an alert yesterday.
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MILWAUKEE - A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner.
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Two diamonds together worth over 11 million euros ($20.3 million) disappeared from an antique dealers&#39; show at the Paris Louvre museum in an apparent mid-afternoon robbery.
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By Katherine Rosenberg, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 10--VICTORVILLE -- It was a gamble all around -- for both a woman carrying a large Las Vegas jackpot in her purse, and for the gas station attendants who later stole her winnings.
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Two diamonds together worth over 11  million euros ($13.53 million) disappeared from an antique  dealers' show at Paris's Louvre museum Monday in an apparent  robbery while the person manning the stand was absent.
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THIEVES stole a laptop computer and a cash box after walking into a shop in Beauchamp Road, Leamington.  They took the black Sony Vaio laptop and a small amount of cash from the Tyre Stop.  The laptop is unusual because the files on the computer are written in an oriental language.
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GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. - A wallet lost by an automobile factory worker in South Korea was found near Buffalo. The worker lost his wallet last year while checking out the wiring on a Chevy Aveo that was bound for sale in the U.S.
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A briefcase full of notes and lyrics has been returned to U2 - 23 years after it was stolen from the band.