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Friendly Robber Cancels Stickup With Thumbs-Up After Recognizing Victim
Andy Cush · 01/15/15 03:19PMOn Tuesday, a lucky convenience store worker in Wheat Ridge, Colo., was spared a stickup when the guy who was planning to clean him out recognized his face. "(Expletive)," the would-be robber allegedly said (What expletive?). "I was going to rob this place, but I know you."
Letters From Death Row: Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio Inmate A269-357
Hamilton Nolan · 01/15/15 01:53PMTeen Girl Violently Attacked Classmate Who Farted Near Her: Prosecutor
Taylor Berman · 01/12/15 04:51PMReport: Former M.I.T. Professor Filmed Himself Robbing Banks
Brendan O'Connor · 01/10/15 12:25PMGeorge Zimmerman Arrested for Domestic Violence, Again
Hudson Hongo · 01/10/15 10:30AMFive-Year-Old Girl Dead After Dad Threw Her Off a Bridge: Cops
Jay Hathaway · 01/08/15 12:22PMGuess What The Guy in The "Seriously, I Have Drugs" Shirt Was Busted For
Jay Hathaway · 01/07/15 10:05AMNAACP Office Hit By IED Explosion
Hamilton Nolan · 01/07/15 08:55AMSon Murdered Hedge Fund-Manager Dad Over $200 Allowance Cut: Report
Taylor Berman · 01/05/15 05:55PMThe 30-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed his hedge fund manager father Sunday afternoon reportedly did so after an argument over a small cut in his monthly allowance. The New York Post reports that Thomas Gilbert Jr. murdered his father Thomas Gillbert Sr. after learning that his allowance had been reduced by $200; the New York Daily News puts the number at $100.
Drunk Guy in Street Sweeper Leads Police on Low-Speed Chase
Hudson Hongo · 01/03/15 02:40PMEdmonton Police: Eight Killed in "Senseless Mass Murder"
Hudson Hongo · 12/30/14 07:10PMCops: Pizza Shop Robber's Toilet Paper Was a Dead Giveaway
Jay Hathaway · 12/30/14 01:10PMWhen Uniontown, Pa., police arrived at the scene of a pizza shop robbery, their primary suspect denied he was at fault. Eric Frey said someone else forced him at gunpoint to write a stickup note on a piece of toilet paper—"I have a gun. Give me $300."—and hand it to the cashier at Michael Maria's Pizza.
Woman Arrested for Throwing Raw Meat at Cops: "God Told Me To"
Hudson Hongo · 12/27/14 04:00PMBus Passenger Stabs Man on Christmas Eve for Sitting Too Close to Him
Hudson Hongo · 12/27/14 11:15AMHeartless Christmas Burglars Hold Couple at Gunpoint, Steal Puppies
Kelly Conaboy · 12/26/14 11:45AMNYPD Union President Patrick Lynch Is Completely Nuts: A History
J.K. Trotter · 12/22/14 03:39PMPatrick Lynch is the 51-year-old president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the largest and most influential union of the New York City Police Department. You might recognize his name: Over the weekend, Lynch blamed Bill de Blasio for the Saturday deaths of two Brooklyn cops who were murdered by a lone gunman from Georgia. “That blood on the hands,” he said at a press conference, “starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor.”