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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”...
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- 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...
This wannabe bank robber took leaving his calling card a little too literally. A Chicago bank robbery suspect gave a teller his state-issued ID along with a withdrawal slip demanding $10,000 during an ill-fated heist Monday, federal prosecutors said. Edner Flores, 34, entered a PNC Bank in the city’s Humboldt Park section and waited in...
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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...
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)
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...
Shakira will be shaking her hips all the way to the bank.
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.
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)
The Internal Revenue Service sent millions of Americans' stimulus checks to the wrong bank accounts in its rush to deliver them, tax preparers say.
A Florida man who was caught posing as a doctor as a teen was busted again on charges of fraud and grand theft, police said. Malachi Love-Robinson, 23, of West Palm Beach, was arrested Thursday for allegedly having his clients at the shipping company where he works send their money to his personal bank account,...
Comedians Rosie O’Donnell and Amy Schumer are making eleventh-hour pushes for the Democratic candidates in next month’s crucial Senate runoff election in Georgia — as Tinseltown celebrities continue to try to turn the Peach State blue down-ballot. Schumer, the star of “Trainwreck” and “I Feel Pretty,” will take part in a phone bank Saturday. “Join...
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
'We have tax fraud and bank fraud, witness tampering, obstruction of justice — but because they were close to the president, they got pardoned,' the senator said Sunday.
"The father, James Mast, 28 of a rural Cole Camp residence, stated that his daughter had been beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank before being taken back into the residence."
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...
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