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March 7, 2006
Topics bank, police, money, car, chase, truck, driver, death, help, city, people and woman
A 75-year-old woman, accused of robbing a bank with an unloaded pistol, is arrested when a tow truck driver blocks her path during a short car chase. After her arrest, Marilyn Divine, says she was trying to "help people who are starving to death and nobody cares about them. " She did not specify whom she was referring to.
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March 6, 2006
Pigs are rumored to eat just about anything. But one German farmer's choice of feed got him in trouble with authorities. Police charged the 29-year-old farmer from the town of Frizlar-Haddamar with improper burial after he fed the corpse of an elderly family friend to his pigs.
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March 6, 2006
West Mifflin, PA (AHN)-Police say they have captured an elderly woman who tried to rob a bank with a gun, while wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers ski mask.
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February 24, 2006
The boyfriend of the woman dubbed the "cell phone bandit" was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for his role in four bank robberies last year. Dave Williams, 19, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and weapons charges in December. The bank robberies occurred in October and November. Besides his prison sentence, he's been given five years of supervised probation.
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February 13, 2006
Some nuns from Pasco County say they somehow managed to end up on a list of possible terrorists and even had their assets frozen without explanation. Sister Jean Abbot of the Holy Name Monastery says checks written by the organization suddenly began bouncing. That's when she found out the Feds had placed the monastery on an anti-terrorism list and frozen its account.
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