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Four bank robbers have been arrested after boasting about their successful raid on Facebook. The dim witted criminals posted the message "I'm rich" and "Wipe my teeth with hundreds" soon after an armed raid on a bank in Houston, Texas. Police were...

Students behind the discovery of an alien's body at a UFO crash site have admitted it was a hoax - made out of stale bread. A video of the find shot by Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19 - supposedly showing the alien's mangled body frozen in snow in Irkutsk, Siberia - became a...

Florida resident Cameron Pittman failed in his attempt to rob a shop with a PlayStation controller, not least because police officers walked into the convenience store in the middle of the fiasco. Mr Pittman was arrested by police in St Petersburg and charged with strong-arm robbery and...

If a man's house is his castle, what happens when the emperor is wearing no clothes on his front lawn? Police in Spring Hill, Fla., say they found Gregory Hanscom lying in his front yard wearing nothing except his pants around his ankles, according to the Sun Sentinel's FloriDUH blog...

A real-life ‘evil hypnotist’ is being hunted down after sending at least eight elderly bank customers into trances and stealing their money. The crafty crook has been collecting cash from unaware victims in the south-western Russian city of Stavropol. It is thought that he has...

For seven years, Roger Huang, a pastor who runs a rescue mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, has been trying to shut down the sex shops there. This week he may have seen a sign that his efforts are working. On Wednesday, a man burst into flames while inside one of those porn...

Police in China were stunned to spot a man 'driving' two bumper cars along a street. Officer Liu Yulin was watching CCTV footage of a road in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province when the bumper cars came into view. He said: 'I saw on the screen that a man was driving two bumper cars. He sat in...

Ryan Stephens has been charged with teasing Timber the police dog after he was found barking and hissing at the animal. The 25-year-old claimed ‘the dog started it’ when officers asked why he was barking at the K9 dog in a patrol car in Cincinnati, Ohio. Police said he appeared...

DANVILLE -- Worried that banks aren't watching your money anymore? At least one doesn't deserve such flak. A tip from a US Bank employee helped police arrest a 24-year-old Oakland woman on Tuesday, Danville police Chief Steve Simpkins said in a release. Robbie Smith was being held in the...

Police on Friday arrested a man in connection with a string of burglaries near Campolindo High School in January. Joran Taylor Furst, a 24-year-old parolee from Pacheco, has been charged by the district attorney's office with three counts of first-degree burglary and one count each of petty...

DETROIT (Reuters) – A package found by a security guard at a U.S. federal office building in Detroit sat three for weeks before someone thought to screen it and found it was a bomb, an official who represents unionized guards said on Wednesday. A private contract guard, since suspended...

Police say that package exploded next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure for Moscow. An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at...

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...

A big yellow snake terrified passengers aboard a train in Poland, after it escaped from its carry box and slithered through a carriage. Passengers travelling between Gdynia and Zakopane yanked the emergency brake and climbed up on their seats as the 3.5ft reptile crossed their paths...

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...

Northern Indiana police have arrested a 14-year-old boy who allegedly stole a church van and drove it to school because he didn't want to walk from his nearby home. A Gary police officer was driving behind the van Friday but didn't notice that a boy was driving the vehicle until a school...

A man is in custody after police say he broke into an Arizona townhome and got stuck in a clothes hamper underneath the window he climbed through. To the book of faces! Mesa police say 20-year-old Michael Trias was arrested on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage. The East Valley...

Maybe the price of gas was just too high for this suspected car thief. A woman was arrested Friday morning after the car she allegedly stole from a Seattle dealership ran out of gas. An officer spotted the car being driven erratically around 105th Street and Aurora Avenue North around 7...

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...

The town fathers in a locality near Ukraine's port city of Odessa have imposed a night curfew on children under 16 to keep them out of trouble. The municipal council in Izmail -- citing rising crime, heavy drinking and tobacco addiction among its children -- said it wanted them at home and...