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Bank official's boyfriend held in $565,500 robbery
It seem like the perfect crime: Masked men snatch an assistant bank manager in her garage, strap a bomb to her and force the woman to rob her own East Los Angeles bank of $565,500. But now authorities allege that one of three men charged with last fall'...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, FBI, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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Man calls in bomb threats to Delray Beach sober house, say police
A 28-year-old former resident of a Delray Beach sober house phoned in profanity-laced bomb threats in which he claimed the facility would become the "next Boston," police said. Michael Sontag, of Yonkers, N.Y., was arrested by Palm Beach County Sheriff'...
Tags: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Delray Beach
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Bank manager's boyfriend faked bomb vest, indictment says
The boyfriend of an assistant bank manager arranged for her to strap on a fake bomb so she would appear to be a hostage -- setting the stage for him to rob $565,000 from an East Los Angeles bank last year, according to a federal indictment unsealed...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, FBI, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Bank Robbery
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Men indicted in connection with bizarre kidnapping, bank robbery
Several men -- including a friend of a bank manager who was kidnapped and strapped with explosives as part of a bizarre bank robbery in East L.A. last fall -- have been indicted in connection with the crimes, several law enforcement sources said. Ray...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Kidnapping, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Bank Robbery, Theft
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Dozens killed in wave of bombings in Iraq
A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said The attacks, some of which hit market places...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Car bomb blast kills at least 12 in Iraqi capital
ReutersBAGHDAD, May 20 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing at least 12 people on Monday, police and hospital sources said. The blast, near a crowded market in the northern Shaab district of Baghdad,...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Baghdad (Iraq), Bombings
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Yuba County Sheriff's program lends a hand to residents
Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.Max Smith wanted to cut down the old tree in his back yard. He wanted to cut his lawn, clean up his bushes and clear out the weeds, tall grass and bottles and cans others left in his yard. "I was going to do it, but I got all sick," the 86-year-old...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Law Enforcement, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Air Force
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Suicide bomb blast kills Afghan provincial leader, 12 others
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb blast killed a top leader of a northern Afghan province and at least 12 other people Monday, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents ahead of Washington’s planned troop withdrawal at the end of...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Suicide, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kabul (Afghanistan), Afghanistan
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Reuters World News Highlights 1430 GMT, May 20
ReutersAMMAN - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. - - - SEOUL -...Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Walmart, European Union
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Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair
BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, News Agency, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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The York Dispatch, Pa., Larry Hicks column
The York Dispatch, Pa.I would not consider myself a dog expert. But I have had a few. And I've trained them to do the things dogs should be expected to do. If they want to live in my house they've got to be civilized. The very first dog I had as an adult was a handsome St....Tags: Emergency Incidents, York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Minnesota strives to increase inspections of anhydrous storage facilities
St. Cloud Times, Minn.Anhydrous Ammonia Storage Facilities A massive explosion last month at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured 200 more also heightened awareness of hazardous farm chemicals and how they are stored. Ammonium nitrate, which...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Safety of Citizens, Politics, Fertilizer, Chemical Industry
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