A woman never stopped talking on her cellphone as she robbed four banks in the Washington D. C. suburbs, a sheriff's spokesman says on Friday. In the most recent heist, the woman walked up to a bank teller in Ashburn, Virginia on November 4 and opened her purse to show a handgun and a note demanding cash, says Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell.

Police discover a successful South Florida real estate broker was once a member of the notorious 1970's Stopwatch Gang, infamous for robberies carried out in less than 90 seconds, timed by a stopwatch. According to investigators, the "Stopwatch Gang" robbed more than 100 banks and armored cars in the 1970's and 80's throughout the United States and Canada. In later years, investigators say two people joined the alleged gang specifically to add drug-dealing to the operations.

Officials say, Wim Duisenberg, the former European Central Bank chief who helped create the euro currency, was found dead Sunday, in his swimming pool in southeastern France. He was 70. An autopsy shows Duisenberg drowned after an unspecified cardiac problem. He was found unconscious in the swimming pool at his home in the town of Faucon. Police say attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

When you want something, just ask. Apparently that is the adage that applied to a bank robber in Chicago. Police say the robber sent a note through a vacuum tube to the teller at the drive-through window at a branch of Chicago's LaSalle Bank and the teller obliged, returning an undisclosed amount of cash.

When you want something, just ask. Apparently that is the adage that applied to a bank robber in Chicago. Police say the robber sent a note through a vacuum tube to the teller at the drive-through window at a branch of Chicago's LaSalle Bank and the teller obliged, returning an undisclosed amount of cash.