A Texas bank robber's efforts were thwarted Friday when bank customers wrestled him to the ground. Larry Don Enos, 57, reportedly entered a Fort Worth bank wearing a wig, fake mustache and beard.

It all began 30 years ago today. The mother lode of all spam - the bane of everyone's online existence - was first sent out via the U. S. Defense Department's Arpanet by a salesman named Gary Thuerk. The first junk mail or "Spam" as we know it today, was an invitation for a demo of the new system-20 mini computers being marketed by the Digital Equipment Corp.

A 21-year-old man from Crowley, Texas has been arrested for trying to cash a $360 billion check at a bank here and is facing forgery charges. Charles Ray Fuller was arrested on April 22 when the bank called the police after verifying from the owner of the personal account that she did not write the check.

Abuse of government-issued credit card privileges made the headlines in the U. S. and Canada this week. A few days after the U. S. General Accountability Office reported widespread charging of unauthorized items among federal employees, a Canadian bureaucrat made news by charging $230,000 to her state-issued credit card to buy souvenir coins which she deposited in her personal bank account. Veronica Topic, 24, later withdrew the money, purchased electronic gadgets and auctioned it on eBay. The Canada Border Services Agency employee even had the gumption to have the laptops, Palm Pilots and other gizmos delivered to her office, which caused raised eyebrows among her officemates.

A man was charged after he mistakenly left a store without paying for a case of soda. After paying $157. 20 at a self-checkout counter, Tom Sturgis forgot to ring up his sodas, and was walking out of the store when security approached him and demanded to see his receipt.