Patty Mulligan turned the tables on a crook and won.
Patty’s daughter, Hedy Mulligan, 11, was born with a chromosome disorder that left her mentally disabled.  Therefore, Hedy uses a special computer with a touchscreen to communicate with the others.
During the Thanksgiving holiday, however, Patty loaded up the family car outside her brother’s home and accidentally [...]

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One Massachusetts-area would-be bank robber has a serious case of low self-esteem.
Police are looking for the suspect who fled from a bank in Springfield empty-handed after someone inside the establishment yelled at him.
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Sgt. John Delaney says a man in dark clothes and wearing sunglasses entered The Bank of Western Massachusetts on Thursday [...]

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An Ohio woman allegedly punched through a McDonald’s drive-through window after being told that there were no Chicken McNuggets.  She appeared in court on Saturday a charge of felony vandalism.
Melodi Dushane, 24, of Toledo became “upset that chicken nuggets weren’t available” and “punched out the drive-through window,” according to police reports.
Police were called to the [...]

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Alfred Hightower was a fugitive.
He was wanted on charges of dealing in a schedule III controlled substance, dealing in a schedule IV controlled substance, and two charges of dealing in marijuana. A warrant was issued for his arrest in 2007.
Unfortunately for Alfred, he was also addicted to playing World of Warcraft.
Howard County Sheriff’s Department deputy [...]

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Last September, Craig Lynch escaped from prison and he’s been running ever since.  Still, he somehow finds time to log in to his Facebook account and taunt law enforcement officers.
Lynch had been serving a 7-year sentence at the Hollesley Bay Prison in England for aggravated burglary.  Since then, he’s been updating his Facebook account, leaving [...]

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Police in Mississippi say a woman was carjacked by a bikini-clad suspect, who they say later tried to rob an RV dealership. Southaven Police Chief Tom Long said the 24-year-old suspect approached another woman in her driveway and demanded the car on Thursday. The woman gave up the car without a fight, asking only for [...]

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Police arrested a suspected car thief they found asleep in the 2001 Oldsmobile he’s accused of stealing. Officers said a 26-year-old man and a woman were found asleep in the car Thursday about six miles from where it was stolen.
Both were taken into custody and the man was arrested on suspicion of grand larceny. It’s [...]

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A man from Marlboro, Massachusetts has been busted for selling marijuana after having advertised his services on Craigslist.
The advertisement posted by Christopher Gray read “420 help is here” and said “Give me a ring if you need some help.”
420, of course, is a slang term used to signify pot. Police decided to go undercover and [...]

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Holdup FAIL.
A retired police chief said he was robbed by “probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania,” at a police officers’ convention on Friday morning. John Comparetto said as he came out of a stall in the men’s room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money. There were 300 narcotics officers from [...]

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