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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A would-be thief's attempt to rob a suburban New York bank was thwarted when the teller refused his demand for money. Police said the man remained at large after the attempted robbery on Wednesday in New Rochelle, about 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City. "He...

A Malaysian landlord received a rather unpleasant surprise when he went to collect rent from some tenants and found his property had disappeared. All that remained of Zuria Ali's house, which he had inherited from his parents, were 24 concrete pillar holders, a smashed TV and pieces of...

You can find almost anything on the shelves at Walmart -- sometimes even obscene photographs of a 44-year-old man in drag. Police in Fremont, Ohio, say Rodney Kunkel stocked the shelves at Walmart with graphic photographs showing himself in black nylons, heels and pink lingerie with his...

A man from Connecticut has been left with a rather bizarre mugshot after being arrested for stabbing a man who was braiding his afro. David Davis from Newhaven, in Connecticut, was having his hair done when he allegedly grabbed some scissors, slashed his barber's back and fled the scene...

The world's smallest man Khagendra Thapa Magar has had a run in with police in Australia, who wanted to know why he was not travelling in a child's booster seat. At just 67cm high and weighing 5kg, Khagendra is around the size of a six-month-old baby. While on a trip to Oz to raise...

26-year-old jailed on DUI, other charges after vehicle taken from outside Ky. hospital A man in eastern Kentucky charged with stealing an ambulance says he just needed a ride home. A Perry County ambulance crew was inside a hospital in Hazard for only a few minutes Friday night and left...

Armed robber Phillip Niere is suing police in Germany after they arrested him with his trousers round his ankles. The 38-year-old was arrested after he threatened to kill five staff at Noris Bank in Aachen, west Germany, if they did not dispense £200,000 to him immediately. He was...

A plucky pair of pensioners fended off a knifeman trying to rob them, armed with just a bottle of Flash cleaning fluid. June Cawkill and Norma Doherty were working at the Millgate Service Station when a man threatened them with a knife and demanded the money from the till. However, the...

A would-be robber who made a failed attempt to hold up a Jack in the Box restaurant was arrested when he returned to the same restaurant the next day, San Diego police said. The man walked in to the Jack in the Box on Wednesday and demanded cash from an employee, saying he had a gun. He had...

Police in northern Ohio say a man who was asked during a traffic stop whether he'd been drinking took a swig from an open can of beer and told the officer, "Yes." According to Cleveland's WJW-TV, the Elyria police report says 25-year-old Stephen Supers was pulled over early Wednesday because...

A Louisville man is facing multiple charges after police said his car was weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 64. According to arrest records, a police officer with a radar gun observed a vehicle speeding and driving erratically down eastbound I-64 around 2 a.m. Thursday. Police...

After years of snatching picnic baskets and duping park rangers without consequence, Yogi Bear appears to have finally been trapped by police in Utah. Officers from the Utah County Sheriff's Office apparently captured the famed Hanna-Barbera character on fishing without a license, immigration...

Note to drug dealers: If you're masking illegal operations behind a pizza parlor, make sure customers actually leave the premises with food. In Toronto last week, police shuttered a downtown pizza restaurant after they found more than $1 million of marijuana and other drugs on site...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A 21-year-old Overland Park man is being commended for his honesty after he was mistakenly given a bank deposit bag instead of his order at a KFC drive-thru this week. Overland Park police said they were called to the man's home on Sunday. The man told police that he...

Note to thieves: when robbing a place, the best way to make a clean getaway is not to post your picture on the victim's Facebook page. And if you do, scram out of town/country as fast as you can! Otherwise, you'll be like Rodney Knight Jr., who couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a pic of...

MILLVILLE, N.J. — Police say a man picked up for shoplifting at a southern New Jersey Walmart had an unusual motive: Paying off a bet. To the book of faces! C'mon — what's not to like? Hoof it over to Facebook to join the weird news herd. Fifty-eight-year-old Irwin Krakow of...

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...

Stay away from Hersha Howard's Thin Mints! The Collier County woman was arrested Sunday after a savage beatdown of her roommate over a box of the delicious Girl Scout cookies that were apparently off limits to her kids, according to naplesnews.com. The brawl began when the 31-year-old...

CHICKASHA, Okla. — A suspected thief was taken into custody after allegedly trying to conceal a stolen chainsaw by stuffing it down his pants as one would a candy bar, according to local news reports. Police say 21-year old Anthony Black was eyeing an Echo chainsaw, but decided that a grab...