Police in Altamonte Springs, Florida are investigation an unusual robbery where the suspect allowed the clerk to call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack. However, the robber, who also carried a handgun while looting the Kangaroo Express store on State Road 436, also took $30 and a few cigarettes.

A Russian immigrant living in Virginia was beaten to death with a rock on Thursday when he declined to buy some religious CDs offered to him. The incident took place at a highway rest stop in New Jersey when Brian K. White, approached Michail Makerenko,77, as he was standing by his car. According to reports, White wanted to sell a religious CD to him but Makerenko declined to buy it saying he doesn't need any. This apparently annoyed White, who picked up a rock and struck Makerenko in his head causing fatal blows. White then fled in his white Camaro but was followed by a witness and caught after a 90 mile chase by police.

In an incident of what can be yet another U. S. Mint goof, a Colorado couple has found a dollar coin without the face of George Washington on it. Although, the coin does have "In God We Trust" inscribed on its edge, it is missing out on the images both on its front and backside. "We're just so excited," Mary Smith told The Associated Press. "I'm just dumbfounded that we actually found something significant. "

In a miracle-like situation for doctors, a Colorado woman who spent nearly seven years in a coma, woke up for a short time Sunday and started talking. However, the happiness for her family members was shortlived as on Wednesday Christa Lilly relapsed into her previous unconscious state. Lilly told television station KKTV-TV, "I think it's wonderful. It makes me so happy. " She also saw her youngest daughter Chelcey, now 12 years old, and three grandchildren.

An apparent quality control mistake has raised the value of the first presidential $1 coin to around $50 apiece. An unknown number of the gold colored coins with an image of the first U. S. President George Washington on it were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are now being auctioned at eBay for around $40 to $60. The news comes just less than a month after the U. S. Mint issued nearly 300 million of the coins. The coins were supposed to feature the image of the President on one side and the Statute of Liberty on the other. "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," the issue year and the mintmark on the edge.