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'Stealing' keys by camera proven easy

Hide those keys. A quick camera phone picture could unlock your doors. Scientists in California have developed a software... more

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Yet another attempted football robbery

Thieves broke into footballer Zurab Khizanishvilli's home while he played in an attempted robbery. They were scared off by... more

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Why you should never try to steal a law student's laptop

"A thief learned the mistake of trying to steal a law student's laptop last week after after becoming a punching bag for... more

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Russian church presumed stolen

Yep, you read the title right - the entire church is thought to have been stolen. An abandoned church building in central Russia... more

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Ransom demanded for fibreglass pig

A life-size fibreglass model of a pig was taken from outside a newsagents in Scotland. Shop owner Ryan Kirk has appealed for its... more

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Rare monkeys found safe and well

A pair of rare female squirrel monkeys who were stolen from their enclosure at the Cotswald Wildlife Park on Monday have been... more

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Bailout chief gets snippy with reporters

To see Neel Kashkari field questions from a crowded room, one might think he's still being paid by Goldman Sachs rather than... more

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Unarmed robbery, man steals TV

German police are extending their long arm of the law, after a man with no arms managed to steal a 24-inch TV from a local... more

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Big Apple trip is ruined.. by an apple!

John Wells stole an apple back in 1971, he won a transatlantic trip plus spending money but can't go because of the previous... more

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Man used spicy sauce to rob woman

A man smeared spicy sauce in a woman's face before his accomplice stole her purse. The elderly woman was approached by the... more

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Boy shocked after man powers up campaign sign

Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in... more

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Granny has 73 arrests since 1971

NEW YORK (AP) - A 70-something woman who gave her address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was arrested for the 73rd time, accused of stealing a police decoy wallet and stuffing it in her bra.

The woman, who prosecutors say has used 36 different names, was indicted Tuesday as Katherine Kelly.

A criminal complaint charged Kelly with grand larceny and attempted grand larceny after her arrest in a Manhattan supermarket Oct. 15. It said she took a wallet, left by police as bait, from a shopping cart. An officer recovered the wallet from Kelly's "bra area," it said.

Undercover police also saw her trying to steal from several shoppers by reaching inside their bags, the complaint said. A judge scheduled a Nov. 17 arraignment.

Kelly's lawyer, James Neilson, stressed that she not been convicted in this case and wouldn't comment on her past arrests. Asked if he thought Kelly was mentally disturbed, Neilson replied, "that's something we're going to find out."

The district attorney's office said Kelly's criminal record dates from Dec. 21, 1971, when she was arrested as Charlotte Martinelli and charged with forgery.

Office spokeswoman Tracy Golden did not know how the case was resolved but said the various arrests, most of them in Brooklyn, have resulted in at least 16 convictions over the years. Most of the charges were felonies that were pleaded down to misdemeanors, she said.

Prosecutors are investigating the woman's true identity, Golden said. Although Kelly has given police 26 birth dates, her office is listing her as 76 because that conforms to the date she gave with her latest arrest.

Kelly gave her address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Golden said. That's the address of the White House in Washington, but she gave the city as Brooklyn, where there is no such street address.

Golden noted that the woman has been arrested under 36 names, including Robin Shapiro, Antoinette Lombardi, Mildred Friedman, Sylvia McGuire, Victoria Velloti and Charlotte Petrovas. The aliases tend to be old-fashioned - no Tracys, Whitneys or Britneys.

NEW YORK (AP) - A 70-something woman who gave her address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was arrested for the 73rd time, accused of... more