Robber's early celebration ends the party
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A 32-year-old man robbed a hotel in the western Finnish town of Turku, got drunk, passed out in a taxi and was picked up by police, tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reported on Saturday.
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DUBUQUE, Iowa - A sweatshirt loaned to a friend two years ago led to the arrest of two people for a series of robberies in Indiana.
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The reigning downtown It party known as Misshapes came to a neon-tinged end early Sunday morning.
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With John Darwin's arrest Saturday, and Anne Darwin's early Sunday, one of the strangest crime stories in recent British history may have reached its end
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BROCKTON, Mass. - Police have shut down what they said was an illegal gambling club, an establishment frequented mostly by senior citizens looking for a place to try their luck on video poker and card games.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Three hooded bandits in eastern Australia bungled a robbery when they apparently mistook a restaurant's sliding door for a swinging one, police said Monday.
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UNNAO, India -- Early in September, a lawmaker here celebrated his 41st birthday with a packed poolside party of dancing, drunken, gun-wielding guests at a highway resort called Fantasy motel. As the party moved into full swing around midnight, people began firing into the air in delirious joy.
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A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, investigators said Wednesday.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  The looters and would-be thieves seemed to rise up out of the dark as in Night of the Living Dead. That&#39;s how Holiday Inn owner John Zaccari remembers the first harrowing ...
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Hogmanay celebrations get under way as X-Factor winner Leon Jackson pulls out of Edinburgh's street party.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jan. 31--DURHAM -- A man was arrested Monday night and charged with robbing the downtown Mechanics & Farmers Bank last week.
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By Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 3--Three masked men with a gun robbed an employee of a Palo Alto restaurant early this morning, police said.   About 12:30 a.m.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Authorities on Tuesday were looking for a man who robbed a bank in Anchorage while swinging a flaming torch fashioned from a burning T-shirt and a yard-long metal pole.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland Police in Northern Ireland say a gang has staged the biggest bank robbery in the province&#39;s history.
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POLICE in Northern Ireland have concluded that the IRA was almost certainly responsible for last weekâs Â£22m (â¬31m) robbery of Northern Bank in Belfast.
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By JAMES KELLY  FOUR men, questioned by the PSNI over a robbery of two elderly brothers at their home, have been released on police bail pending further inquiries.   Raiders ransacked a house owned by the brothers near Ballynahinch, Co Down, on Thursday and escaped with money.
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GRAND CHUTE, Wis. - One robber's list of things to steal included whiskey, a thermometer and lettuce.  Police were called to a grocery store late Thursday after witnesses said a 46-year-old man from Brown Deer threatened employees.