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A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a specially locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter's name, authorities said Tuesday.

A 51-year-old mother used guilt about finances to get her young sons and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies in the Phoenix area in what police are calling a 'revolting' case, authorities said.

A US teenager thwarted as he tried to rob a shop with a concealed banana eats the "weapon" before police arrive, officials say.

A man inadvertently foiled an attempted bank robbery after assuming it was an April Fool prank, a court has heard.

Two men who held up a Wisconsin jewellery store got robbed themselves during their getaway, US police say.

A Richmond man was arrested at a Department of Motor Vehicles office when he tried to register a Buick that had been stolen in a carjacking, authorities said today.

A Brazilian man stole a single-engine plane and crashed it into the parking lot of a shopping mall, killing himself and his 5-year-old child, Goiania police said Friday.

How much is a cup of coffee at Starbucks? For a jewelry salesman from Kansas, it ended up costing about $300,000.

Jeffery Logan was in a St. Paul alley, felled by a bullet, when his assailant approached him early Saturday morning outside the Attucks-Brooks American Legion Hall, authorities say.

A female suspect who robbed a Scottsdale bank Monday is still at large, police said.