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A security guard who apparently wanted to play police officer pulled over the wrong person Tuesday, according to Dalton, Ga., police. James Dale Smith, 58, an employee of J.J.K. Security in Chattanooga, Tenn., turned on his strobe light and tried to stop a car on Shugart Road shortly before...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) claimed credit on Thursday for taking down one of the biggest producers of spam e-mail in a joint effort with federal authorities across the United States. The world's biggest software company said its legal action against the operator of the Rustock 'botnet' -- or...

Police hope a man in Florida will think long and hard before he prank calls 911 again. Investigators in Broward County say 28-year-old Matthew Wade Douglas Jr. is responsible for two obscene 911 calls in which a man graphically described symptoms -- and raunchy home remedies -- following an...

An officer was walking in to the Stoughton bank as an alleged robber was running out, and he chased him down. It only took 90 seconds for the robber to walk in the front doors of the bank until he was in handcuffs. As he was walking out with the cash he walked by a police officer, who was...

Link Removed - Invalid URL A team of former Israeli military veterans is now guarding Charlie Sheen and his goddess girlfriend Natalie Kenly after a crazed fan managed to penetrate the star's Mulholland Estate mansion, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. The bodyguards joined Sheen's...

SCOTTDALE, Pennsylvania — A man left his sleeping 4-year-old son home alone while he went outside and pretended to be a ninja warrior, police say. The Daily Courier of Connellsville reported that Ross Hurst was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police found him dressed...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Guangfu Zhoa allegedly strangled his girlfriend at the Stamford Town Center February 23, 2011. She retaliated by stabbing him the back. A Stamford couple are facing charges after a dispute over a phone bill lead to a stabbing. The incident started Wednesday...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Authorities said a man faces charges after a sheriff's deputy stopped a truck and found all the passengers completely naked. Officials said a sheriff's deputy responded to a report of a suspicious pickup truck east of Lincoln. The deputy said he stopped the truck to question...

Law enforcement officials say a police impersonator in Florida stuck a fork in his ruse when he started waving an oversized kitchen utensil at motorists. Police in Pompano Beach say Howard Schultz, 69, forced a driver to pull over on Feb. 21 while waving a 10-inch barbecue fork, NBCMiami.com...

State police in Pennsylvania are trying to track down a mummy. Law enforcement officials say a man entered an Exxon Buy N' Fly mini-mart in the village of Herminie on Feb. 21 with a hatchet in his hand and dark cloth wrapped around his face like a mummy. No one was injured in the robbery...

Two West Virginia cousins are in the Somerset County Prison awaiting a hearing on charges they were caught with a car full of stolen beef jerky Wednesday evening. Channel 4 Action News' Jennifer Miele reported Chief Randy Cox said the men were pulled over in the 100 block of Plank Road in...

A 36-year-old Columbia man was stabbed in a downtown alley last night when he confronted a man for urinating on his dog. Link Removed - Invalid URL Columbia police arrested Deanthony L. Weir of 500 W. Ash St. seven minutes after officers were dispatched to the scene, according to a...

HOUSTON -- A Houston-area man has been arrested and charged with brutally attacking his 33-year-old estranged wife, who survived a 17-hour ordeal in which she was tortured and mutilated. Link Removed due to 404 Error Harris County sheriff's officials said Gregoria Longoria Jr., 39...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Despite being sprayed with mace, the owner of a Carlsbad pizzeria and an employee still managed to stop a suspect, put him in a headlock and deliver a pizza. Employees had just put the last pizza in the oven at Paradise Pizza on Wednesday night when a suspect entered the...

Malaysian police have arrested three suspects involved in the heist of some 725,000 condoms, which have not yet been found. Mohamad Shukri Dahlan, the police chief of Malaysia's northern Perak state, says the heist was "an inside job." He said Friday the suspects work for the firm...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error PHOENIX (Reuters) – In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said.. The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of...

Drug-Smuggling Pigeon Caught in Colombia Colombian authorities say they have captured a pigeon that was being used to smuggle drugs into a prison. Guards became suspicious after spotting a bird with a package on its back near the prison in Bucaramanga, in the north of the country, The...

Naked Tourist Richard Gervasi Blocks Traffic in Florida, Gets Shot With Taser He might be the king of the world, but police say this emperor needs new clothes. A tourist was shot with a taser three times by Florida police after he allegedly got naked and blocked traffic in Big Coppitt...

Wisconsin Woman Finds $280K of Drugs in Vacuum GREEN BAY, Wis. - A Green Bay, Wis., woman opened a Christmas present from her children to find a refurbished vacuum - and a load of drugs. Authorities say the woman found 2 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 2.2 pounds of cocaine...

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/14/woman-accused-of-stashing-fur-coat-in-her-underwear/ Police in Bloomington, Minn., say a shoplifter snatched a $6,500 fur coat -- then hid it between her legs in a pair of barely-there underwear for three days while she was in jail. As an accomplice...