Bandits abort restaurant robbery after door confusion
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Three hooded bandits in eastern Australia bungled a robbery when they apparently mistook a restaurant&#39;s sliding door for a swinging one, police said Monday.
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A restaurant employee avoided being shot during a struggle with an escaped Utah prison inmate accused of earlier killing a corrections officer, because the inmate's gun malfunctioned, authorities said Tuesday.
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DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. - A bank that has been robbed so many times it bans customers from coming inside was held up again anyway on Friday.  Anyone using the Bank of America branch on Silver Hill Rd.
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Two convicted murderers escaped from a prison transport van while it was parked a fast-food restaurant, but they didn't get very far.
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The intruder appears relatively harmless--and now halted--but raises security concerns.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A suspicious package left outside a fast-food restaurant Wednesday turned out to be a trumpet that has sounded its last note.  Someone noticed a suspicious package, and several blocks were closed down for about two hours as police investigated.
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A gunman fatally shot five people in a robbery at a store in a suburban Chicago strip mall and fled Saturday, prompting police to sweep through neighboring shops as terrified customers watched.
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Police shut down a bar that was showing a successful musical revue featuring nudity because the business didn't have an adult entertainment license.
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Police on Capitol Hill are baffled by an attempted robbery that began with a handgun put to the head of a 14-year-old girl and ended in a group hug.
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A SWAT team that believed a gunman was holding hostages at a restaurant was able to free 14 people, but they did not find the armed man and were trying to determine whether a suspect got away or a hoax had been perpetrated, police said. No one was injured.
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TEMECULA, Calif. - A robber nicknamed the "9 to 5 bandit" was working late when he held up a Wells Fargo bank branch at about 5:30 p.m., the FBI reported...
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FORT VALLEY, Ga. - A Fort Valley man walked nearly 2 miles with a bullet hole in his head after being shot in a robbery, determined to die in the presence of loved ones if that was his fate.
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A gunman robbed an armored-car guard at gunpoint outside a Wal-Mart, then pepper-sprayed startled shoppers as he fled, forcing more than 20 people to seek medical treatment.
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A gang has escaped with up to Â£30million after clearing the vaults of a Belfast bank. It&#39;s believed to be the second biggest robbery ever in the UK, and the fourth biggest in the world.
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Three armed intruders, thought to be  robbers, who had taken at least three hostages at the Spanish  consulate in the Swiss capital were on the run Monday after  Swiss police stormed the building, police said.
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WASHINGTON - A quick-acting retiree whacked a teenage robbery suspect over the head with a frying pan, an action praised by District of Columbia police. Police had been pursuing a red Jeep believed to be carrying two suspects following a reported robbery about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday.
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The three suspects in the shooting escaped the scene, setting off a widespread search.