Retiree Whacks Suspect With Frying Pan
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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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MILWAUKEE - This thief may want to rethink his approach. Police arrested a 49-year-old man for allegedly stealing several large pieces of equipment from a lumber yard after detectives followed drag marks to his house...
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SUDBURY -- When Gordon Hamersley, one of Boston's premier chefs, cooks at home, he grabs one of his trusty old cast-iron skillets and begins his magic.
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A new cooking device lets backyard chefs tend to their guests rather than their meats.
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JANESVILLE, Wis. - A man was accused of beating his 79-year-old grandmother with a claw hammer because she said she wouldn't write him a check for $500.  Delores L.
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A 57-year-old man is to appear in court on charges connected to an arson attack which killed two people.
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Creature's rampage in Germany ends at the hands of angry 72-year-old.
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CAMBRIDGE, Minn. - A 74-year-old man who chased down a thief and held him at gunpoint until authorities arrived now faces a charge more serious than the thief himself.
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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.
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HOUSTON - Road rage? Try restaurant rage. A 34-year-old man apparently angry that his $6 steak and cheese sandwich was too cold was arrested on a charge of threatening to kill the restaurant manager Wednesday.  Police said the manager offered to reheat Devlin B.
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By ANNE M. PETERSON PORTLAND, Ore. - When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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Police arrest a man as part of investigations into threats against celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein.
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Here's a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York.
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Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals... As soon as 63-year old Russell Defreitas was arrested in early June for an alleged plot to destroy JFK through fuel explosions, terror beat journalists couldn't resist their favorite hobby: telling stories about how everything in the US is at risk. The description "elderly patsy" immediately came to mind when eyeballing Defreitas, but AP described him, with no apparent sense of humor, as an "accused mastermind." "Unthinkable devastation" would have resulted, had his plan not been nipped in the bud.â¦
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CANTON, Ohio - A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone.
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NORTH BONNEVILLE, Wash. - A man who used a stun gun on his 79 year-old grandmother-in-law after an argument over how to discipline his toddler son was arrested for investigation of domestic violence assault.
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Police arrested a woman Friday after her 7-year-old son told authorities she burned him in an oven, and a day-care worker was arrested for not reporting the attack, authorities said.