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A robber returned an American flag given New York family of a firefighter who killed on Sept. 11 with a note saying, "I am so sorry. I had no idea."

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Two young robbers, one armed with a gun, tried holding up a Fresno, California, jewelry store Friday, but things didn’t exactly go the way they planned.

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A Pennsylvania woman armed with a pellet gun stopped a home intruder in his tracks Sunday night. Sandra Norris returned to her Sunbury home to find a burglar heading towards the door with her 50-inch TV in hand. Norris grabbed a pellet gun she kept in a drawer and shot the man once in the […]

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Joseph Booker, 20, entered a Family Dollar store in Greenville and, armed with what appeared to be a real gun, demanded the clerk empty the register into a shopping bag. The clerk complied and Booker made off with nearly $500 in cash, the local Fox-affiliate reports.

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Two motorcyclists were stopped and robbed at gunpoint as they drove through a remote dirt trail in Guatemala April 10. Canadian native Dan Landsborough and his British girlfriend Heidi Burton, both 34, were riding somewhere between Santiago Atitlan and San Pedro La Laguna in Solola when two masked men jumped out from the bushes. One […]

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A Tuscaloosa, Alabama, homeowner fought off a machete-wielding burglar Sunday morning and then held the crook at gunpoint until police arrived. The homeowner and his wife were enjoying breakfast on their back porch when 21-year-old Daniel Pearman, armed with a machete and donning a mask, tried to burglarize them. The homeowner snapped into action and […]

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A man spent 15 years in a Bridgeton, New Jersey, prison for robbing a shoe store. He was finally released Friday and the next day he returned to the same shoe store and robbed it again. In 1999, then 25-year-old Christopher Miller robbed a children’s shoe store called Stride Rite at knifepoint. He forced the […]

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“Thunder From Down Under” strippers from the Excalibur hotel in Las Vegas beat up an armed man who shot at them while trying to steal a suitcase full of costumes Tuesday. The crook snuck backstage and was rifling through costumes when six chiseled, shirtless strippers spotted him. The robber pulled a .44-caliber Magnum handgun and […]

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An Alabama woman politely held up a Cherokee convenience store at gunpoint Friday morning, thanking the clerk before fleeing with her car full of children. The unidentified woman waited until the coast was clear, and then pulled out her 9mm pistol. She racked a round and demanded cash, cigarettes, and a soft drink. After taking […]

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A South Carolina man used a “squash suppressor” while robbing a gas station, the Associated Press reports. At approximately 2 a.m. an unidentified man approached a James Island gas station. He fired two rounds from a gun that had a squash attached to the end of it before hurling a cinder block through a window, […]

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A pistol that was retrieved from the body of the infamous Depression-era outlaw Bonnie Parker just hours after she was shot to death is set to be auctioned on Jan. 25 in Knoxville. On May 23, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde’s reign of infamy came to a dramatic close when they were both shot to death […]

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An armed robber was beaten and stripped of his clothes Christmas Eve after trying to hold up a California hair salon. Corneilyus Howeth, a 23-year-old Oklahoma City native, stepped into Head Honchos hair salon around midnight. Armed with a gun, he forced employees to empty their pockets as he looted them. But when one employee […]

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