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Christmas Thieves Steal Gifts Worth $162,212 In December Alone

The Christmas season might be the time for everyone to take a break from their jobs, but not for robbers and thieves in Lake Clarke Shores, Florida.

Surpassing its normal limit of only a dozen robberies per year, the place has seen 14 house robberies in the last month.

200-Year-Old Dentures Go On Display In London

A 200-year-old pair of false teeth that belonged to the Archbishop of Narbonne went on display at the Museum of London Friday. Archaeologists found the teeth in the coffin of the archbishop, Arthur Richard Dillon, while digging at the St. Pancras graveyard, where the Channel Tunnel's new rail terminus will be built.

The dentures, which are made of porcelain and contain gold springs, were still sitting in Dillon's mouth. It is thought he may have purchased them from Nicholas De Chemant, a prominent Parisian dentist.

Burglars Run After Finding Severed Human Heads

Burglars who broke into a dentist's apartment basement fled without taking a thing after they found eight severed human heads in a trunk, Austrian police reported Friday.

The dentist was storing the mummified heads to use for research. Police said the burglars must have stumbled into them soon after they broke in.

Grandma Arrested For Hold Up Attempt

The Chicago police have arrested a 79-year-old woman after she attempted to hold up a bank using a toy gun. She could be the oldest person to be charged with attempted bank robbery in the city's history.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the woman entered a Bank of America branch in Chicago, Illinois wearing a white visor that read "princess" and black sunglasses and told a lady cashier to come closer saying she could not speak very loud having had just come from the dentist.

Woman, 79, Charged With Attempted Toy Gun Bank Robbery

A 79-year-old woman using a toy gun and wearing a visor that read "Princess" has been charged with attempted bank robbery.

Melvena Cooke was set free on a $4,500 bond and is in her daughter's custody.