'Barbie Bandits' nabbed, police say
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Cobb County police tell CNN that the two women they picked up and questioned earlier Thursday in connection with a bank robbery have been arrested.
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Police checked a flood of tips on Tuesday in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch's "The Scream," and new details showed the robbers were more professional than first thought.
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KINGSTON, N.H. - A search for a tuxedo-wearing robber forced area schools to lock down Monday before police captured a suspect in the afternoon.
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LONDON - It wasn't your typical highspeed chase. A pedicab operator was pressed into action by two policewomen trying to nab a fugitive last Friday.
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Tallinn police spokeswoman Jana Zdanovits told the AP on Tuesday that the woman, who was not identified, was pulled over Monday night in the capital's Mustamae area.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Police followed a trail of doughnuts to find a stolen Krispy Kreme delivery truck. "It has a happy ending," Swatara Township Sgt. Robert Simmonds said. "The evidence was brought back to the police station, and the cops are eating the doughnuts." It was 12:45 a.m.
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ELKHART, Ind. - A woman heading home from a store was surprised to find a man accusing her of stealing his van. The 71-year-old woman was leaving Wal-Mart about 9 p.m. Saturday with her great-nieces and great-nephews when a man walked in front of her van, forcing her to stop.
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BIG CREEK, W.Va., Sept. 12 -- The curtains on the trailer home were closed, a shopping cart of empty beer cans was dumped by the porch and rats scurried across the trash-strewn yard. The yellow police tape attached to the porch rail gave the only hint of the brutal and bizarre crime that authorities...
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A package of items believed tied to the BTK serial killings was found Tuesday in a Wichita park, police said. A resident found the package &#151; wrapped in plastic and held together by a rubber band &#151; then contacted local television station KAKE-TV. The station subsequently called police.
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Police investigating the disappearance of a mother of two say they have received three reported sightings.
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Thai police have arrested an American woman, dubbed the "Ponytail Bandit" for her alleged role in a string of bank robberies in the United States, and will hand her over to U.S. custody on Friday, a police spokesman said.
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CLEVELAND - The packages were labeled as toys for good girls and boys and the business was called Santa's Helpers. But authorities say the packages were nothing more than a naughty ruse to cover a large-scale drug smuggling operation.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - She's a 200-pound-plus hugging machine, but her affection comes with a price. Police are warning men about the &quot;Hugging Bandit,&quot; who heartily embraces men coming out of downtown bars and leaves them wallet-less. Dozens of men say they have been victims.
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KIRKLIN, Ind. - Rescue workers who responded to a report of an infant left alone in a vehicle found a doll in a car seat.  A woman phoned the Clinton County Sheriff's Department shortly before 4 p.m.
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EASTCHESTER, N.Y. - A nanny left a year-old toddler home alone while she went Christmas shopping in the family Mercedes, not expecting the little girl's mother to pop into the house while she was out, police said Thursday. "She said the baby was a good sleeper," said Eastchester police Lt.
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LEVITTOWN, Pa. - Police in Bucks County have charged 12 women after an investigation into prostitutes who allegedly have been advertising on the Web site Craigslist.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Masked thieves armed with a chisel stole the penis of a wooden Maori figurine, or tiki, at the entrance of a public library in northern New Zealand, police said.