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He’s hard to miss, but a serial bank robber dubbed the “Too Tall Bandit” is at it again – after the roughly 6-foot-8 man apparently took a two-year break from his 11-year crime spree, according to a report. The soaring suspect with a penchant for Halloween masks – who the FBI believes targeted 16 banks...
The city of Criciuma was under siege of gun-toting bank robbers in a scene that seemed straight out of a movie.
At least 30 assailants and 10 cars were involved in the well-planned operation in which gunmen blocked access to the city — including with burning vehicles — to prevent police reinforcements from responding swiftly, and deployed explosives in the robbery.
A heavily armed gang took over a southern Brazilian city overnight — grabbing hostages, shooting two people, robbing a bank and leaving a street littered with cash, according to reports. Roughly 30 hooded suspects descended onto the streets of Criciúma in the state of Santa Catarina in 10 cars just before midnight in a takeover...
Cars were set alight and the Central Bank of France building was hit with a fire missile in Paris Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters took to city streets throughout France to block a security bill that seeks to prevent reporters from covering police brutality. Violent demonstrators demanding a free press clashed with police...
Protests in France turned heated on Saturday.
Titus Lawson, 7, and his brother John Wayne Lawson, 10, were traveling in the vehicle that struck a bank late Wednesday and became airborne before landing in the canal in Cape Coral.
Vandals went on an anti-Thanksgiving and anti-colonial crime spree in several US states, smashing and defacing storefronts and toppling a war memorial overnight Thursday. At least 10 businesses in Portland, including a Chase Bank and the New Seasons Market along Hawthorne Boulevard, had their windows broken and messages like “Pequot Massacre,” “Land back,” “1637”...
- Washing machine cat is feline dizzy (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- Gets Oscars presenting gig (Category: Business)
- Megyn Kelly pulls sons from ‘woke’ UWS school over anti-white letter (Category: USA, New York)
- Homeless woman called ‘Bus Stop Mary’ identified by her family in New Jersey (Category: USA, Hawaii)
Wolfensohn died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan according to the Institute for Advanced Study, where he had been a past chair of the board.
A State Department official confirmed Pompeo's visit to the Psagot winery near Jerusalem to reporters who were traveling with him but were not allowed to join during that part of the visit.
A bird in the hand is worth $1.9 million in the bank. That’s the sky-high sum that a prized Belgian racing pigeon named New Kim fetched at auction on Sunday, setting a new world record. Two Chinese bidders, operating under the pseudonyms Hitman and Super Duper, battled for the bird as the two-week auction wound...
The international community considers both territories to be "illegally occupied" by Israel, though President Trump has recognized Israel’s sovereignty in the Golan Heights.
Fifth Harmony will be disappointed.
An artist hired to restore the face of a decades-old statue in Spain did such a hilariously bad job, the piece has now been nicknamed “The Potato Head of Palencia,” according to a report. The 1923 sculpture of a woman — which adorns a bank in the small northern city — now has a melted-looking...
A Las Vegas man allegedly stole about $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds meant for small businesses — all so he could buy luxury cars and homes, prosecutors said. Jorge Abramovs has been charged with bank fraud after allegedly applying for Paycheck Protection Program funds between April and June 2020, the Las Vegas Review-Journal...
Angelo Caloia, 81, received an eight-year, 11-month jail sentence.
LONDON – The first cannabis farm has been found in London’s historic financial district, where office buildings have been emptied because of lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19, British police said on Wednesday. The City of London Police said 826 cannabis plants were found in a building near the Bank of England. The police...
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
The official Twitter account of the US ambassador to Israel was briefly changed to the “US Ambassador to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza” after the Biden administration took office on Wednesday — a modification that would signal a huge shift in US policy from the Trump administration. It was changed a short while later...
An Ohio man fatally beat a World War II vet with a hammer during a “barbaric” home invasion, prosecutors said. Michael Dudas, 42, pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacking 94-year-old Charles Vonderau on April 15 inside the elderly veteran’s Cleveland home, where DNA evidence, bank records and video surveillance tied Dudas to the slaying, according to...
All courtroom theatrics and no sound legal argument makes for a happy defendant. New Jersey’s highest court has overturned a bank robbery conviction because the case’s prosecutor compared the defendant to Jack Nicholson’s crazed axe-wielding character in the horror film, “The Shining.” During closing arguments, the prosecutor showed jurors the classic photo of the fic...
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
Shakira will be shaking her hips all the way to the bank.
House Democrats intend to file new subpoenas related to President Trump’s business deals with Deutsche Bank — after the Supreme Court said that their previous subpoenas were too broad, it was revealed in court Tuesday. The subpoenas will be re-issued by Democratic reps who previously sought financial information from the bank, which has lent Trump...
- Democrats to issue new subpoenas for Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank (Category: USA, New York)
- Democrats to issue new subpoenas for Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank (Category: USA, New York)
- Democrats to issue new subpoenas for Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank (Category: USA, New York)
- Democrats to issue new subpoenas for Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank (Category: USA, New York)
Hannah Kelley, of Chattanooga, shared a screenshot Saturday on Facebook of the “random message” from her former teacher at Red Bank High School whom she identified as Erika Perry.
Bank robber busted after security video captures the face of a suspect wearing his COVID-19 mask around his chin
A gang of thieves in Brazil are being compared to Robin Hood and his Merry Men after leaving bank notes strewn behind in the wake of two brazen bank heists in Criciúma and Cametá. Last week, 30 armed thieves in large vehicles stormed Criciúma and blocked main access roads and laid siege to the police...
A crusading women’s-rights lawyer and the leader of the Hollywood-backed Time’s Up nonprofit is defending Goldman Sachs against a female whistleblower who claims she was fired for raising the alarm against sexual misconduct at the bank. Roberta Kaplan, the chair of the Time’s Up governing board of directors and co-founder of the Time’s Up Legal...
- David Shapiro: Hawaii’s leaders bring profiles in futlessness to dreadful year (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- David Shapiro: Hawaii’s leaders bring profiles in futlessness to dreadful year (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- David Shapiro: Hawaii’s leaders bring profiles in futlessness to dreadful year (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- PNM worker helps save woman's life (Category: USA, New Mexico)
A prolific bank robber has popped up again after an almost two-year hiatus, continuing a streak of at least 16 robberies since 2009.
He’s hard to miss, but a serial bank robber dubbed the “Too Tall Bandit” is at it again – after the roughly 6-foot-8 man apparently took a two-year break from his 11-year crime spree, according to a report. The soaring suspect with a penchant for Halloween masks – who the FBI believes targeted 16 banks...
The city of Criciuma was under siege of gun-toting bank robbers in a scene that seemed straight out of a movie.
At least 30 assailants and 10 cars were involved in the well-planned operation in which gunmen blocked access to the city — including with burning vehicles — to prevent police reinforcements from responding swiftly, and deployed explosives in the robbery.
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