POSTED // Aug 26,2009 - Gunman Alex Fowler, 26, confronted Dorothy Williams, 69, and Sue Erzen, 87, at their home, police in Jasper, Texas, said, and demanded money ...

POSTED // Aug 21,2009 - Maybe you weren't listened to very attentively as a child. Perhaps you were dressed in clothes you didn't like, hugged only three times a year, and fed food you were allergic to.

POSTED // Aug 19,2009 - Police charged Brent Nathan Frick, 26, with stealing a safe containing $69,000 in gold coins from a home...

POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - When a woman demanded money at a credit union in South Hutchinson, Kan., the teller asked if she had an active account...

POSTED // Aug 5,2009 - State police arrested Lonnie Meckwood, 29, and Phillip Weeks, 51, for robbing a gas station in Kirkwood, N.Y., after their getaway car ran out of gas...

POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - Liquor store clerk Joseph Wescott, 59, told police in Roswell, Ga., that a man entered the store and tried to stab him in the chest. The knife hit the cell phone in Wescott's shirt pocket but did not injure Wescott...

POSTED // Jul 22,2009 - Billy Floyd Norris, 33, called 911 to report his roommates had robbed him, but when police arrived at his house in Hanceville, Ala., they found a working methamphetamine lab and arrested Norris.

POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - FBI investigators identified Terrol Alan Casborn, 32, as the suspect who robbed two banks in Concord, Calif., because of his distinctive tattoo.

POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - Intending to make street crossing safer, even though there have been no incidents, officials in Lemoyne, Pa., spent $250 to place plastic bins at two of the borough's busiest intersections and fill them with bright orange flags.

POSTED // Jul 1,2009 - Guards caught Bobby Finley, 20, using bolt cutters to get through the chain-link fence that surrounds the jail in Miller County, Ark. He wasn't escaping, however, but trying to break into the jail ...