A 70-year-old grandmother and Sunday school teacher is charged with stealing a baby Jesus statue from an Arkansas town's nativity scene. Virginia Voiers says she thought she was just taking part in a rambunctious holiday prank, when a witness called Eureka Springs police on her.

Ohio carried out the nation's 999th execution since 1977 on Tuesday. The macabre milestone of 1000 is scheduled for later in the week with another execution. John Hicks, 49, was put to death a day after Eric Nance was executed in Arkansas for killing a teenager by slicing her throat with a box cutter.

Sonya Thomas proves she's no turkey when it comes to eating. Weighing in at all of 100 pounds, Thomas shows size is no indication of appetite during a pre-Thanksgiving turkey-eating contest in New York. A group of competitive American eaters assembled at Artie's Deli in New York on Wednesday to gobble down 10-pound roast turkeys and find out.

FBI agents arrest a woman Tuesday who is suspected of robbing four banks in suburban Virginia while appearing to be talking on a cell phone. Candice Martinez, 19, is arrested just before 4am at a home in nearby Centreville, Virginia after an FBI agent saw a car nearby with license plates matching the ones they had been looking for. The FBI had issued a bulletin a few hours earlier saying Martinez and her boyfriend could be fleeing to Texas, New Mexico or New York. "It was a wonderful stroke of luck that [the agent] happened to spot that license plate, and everything unfolded safely and without incident," says Debbie Weirman, a spokesperson from the FBI. Martinez was filmed by security cameras walking up to tellers and demanding cash while appearing to be chatting on her cell phone. FBI Special Agent Ron Chavarro, who spotted the car agents were looking for, ordered two people out of the vehicle and they led investigators to a house nearby where Martinez was staying. Her boyfriend had been arrested a little while earlier. And it was not immediately clear whether charges would be filed against some other people who were with Martinez at the time of her arrest

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.