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Last week we had a burglary at our home and a lot of stuff was stolen including several firearms. We live in the Sun Valley area just north of Burbank, California. The break in occurred at noon, when my wife had stepped out for about an hour. A few of the stolen firearms were collectibles-- primo and very desirable, should the thieves have any clue what they got. This is what was stolen: Smith & Wesson model 3420 Airlight .38 hammerless S/N CEZ8580 Smith & Wesson model 686 .357 7-rd cyl. S/N CEY947 Springfield M1 Garand S/N 1881921 Colt Govt....

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- The State Attorney's Office will decide whether to charge two teens who admit they robbed a 9-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies outside of a Boynton Beach supermarket. "I thought that it was a really mean thing to do, and I was sad after," Girl Scout Gracie Smith told WPBF News 25. Authorities said that a 17-year-old girl in a hot-pink sweatshirt approached Smith outside of a Winn-Dixie supermarket at Hypoluxo and Jog roads in Boynton Beach Wednesday evening and asked the girl what her favorite cookies were. Police told WPBF that, while Smith was telling the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Prosecutors say an inmate at the Kent County Jail was beaten to death by a cellmate who was incensed that someone had stolen his snack cake.

WASHINGTON -- The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded. Inspector General Paul Brachfeld said that his office was investigating allegations that a former employee stole Reagan memorabilia but that the probe had been hampered by the facility's sloppy record-keeping. "We have been told by sources that a person who had access capability removed holdings," Brachfeld said in an interview. "But...

Jim Livingston never gave much thought to the bone transplanted in his neck until that Sunday afternoon when his doctor called to tell him about the recall."Do they want it back?" he asked, half-jokingly.Quickly it became clear that this was no laughing matter.Bone allegedly stolen from a corpse had been used in Livingston's neck to relieve the pain of a ruptured disk.With that bit of news, the 44-year-old Weatherford father joined hundreds of others nationwide who are living with the knowledge that they carry bones and tissue taken illegally from cadavers in what has become a bizarre tale of selling...

SUN CITY, Fla. -- Hillsborough County officials are looking for the people responsible for stabbing and stealing pigs from the Sun City Stables. The sheriff's office reports that a 400-pound pig was stabbed dozens of times sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Another pig at the petting zoo was also attacked and two others are missing. Authorities have dusted for fingerprints around the pig pen but they are still looking for suspects. Meanwhile, the pigs are being treated for their wounds.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian police were combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Friday for a three-tonne meteorite that has disappeared from under the nose of its keepers. The giant rock was stolen from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, news agency Interfax reported. "It winds up that it disappeared back in June, when the foundation was moving out of its old building," a police spokesman told the agency. "Our colleagues are establishing what got lost, where the rock...

Seven months have passed since I handed the gavel to Nancy Pelosi, formally returning control of the House to Democrats for the first time in 12 years. In my remarks to the House that day, I offered a bit of advice to the members of the incoming majority. I told them: “A congressional majority is simply a means to an end. The value of a majority lies not in the chance to wield great power, but in the chance to use limited power to do great things. “The [American] people don’t care which party controls it; what they want is...

REPORT OF INVESTIGATION FILE ID NUMBER: 2007190 AGENCIES: Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Office of Information Technology, Office of Budget and Management BASIS FOR INVESTIGATION: Governor’s Office Referral ALLEGATION: Mismanagement, Failure to Protect Confidential Information, Failure to Properly Report Loss INITIATED: June 15, 2007 DATE OF REPORT: July 20, 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY File ID No. 2007190 On June 15, 2007, Governor Ted Strickland announced that a computer backup tape containing Social Security numbers and other confidential data on more than 64,000 state employees had been stolen from the car of an intern assigned to the state’s integrated Ohio Administrative Knowledge...

FOR SELLING I HAVE JEEPS. ONLY ONE. DOES NOT GO FAST. SEAT IS RIP. MIGHT BE STOLEN. IS RED AND GREEN LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUNS LIKE JEEP. COMES WITH BABY SEAT!! REAR BUMPER INCLUDED. DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH JEEP IS WORTH. TELL ME HOW MUCH YOU WILL PAY. NO PAPERWORK OR REGISTRATION. SOLD AS "PARTS ONLY" WITH OUT-OF-STATE PLATES.

PATERSON -- Someone stole 1,000 gallons of water from Daisy Valdivia's backyard. And they didn't spill a drop. Valdivia woke Wednesday morning to find that her family's inflatable pool, hip high and 10 feet in diameter and filled with water, was stolen from her backyard in the middle of the night. There is no evidence that the water was poured out, pumped out, evaporated or drunk. "I've never heard of a pool being stolen, let alone one with water in it," Valdivia said. According to Valdivia, the theft must have occurred between 1 a.m., the time her husband went to...

A new report that says stolen cars from Canada and the U.S. are turning up in the hands of terrorists overseas is raising new questions about security at Canada's ports. Tens of millions of dollars in stolen cars, head out of Canada's ports and overseas every year. With one car stolen every three minutes in Canada, the cost for all Canadians who pay insurance premiums is more than a billion dollars. "You've got twenty to thirty-thousand higher-end stolen vehicles leaving Canada every year and they are worth $50,000 each," Richard Dubin, vice-president of investigative services of the Insurance Bureau of...

* Believes that North America was unjustly "stolen" from its rightful owners by white Europeans * Rejects the legitimacy of any North or Central American nation named or established by Europeans * Advocates open borders * Calls for the expulsion of all whites from North America

THE Nobel medal won by Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he was awarded the Peace Prize was stolen in a burglary at his Soweto home at the weekend. Johannesburg police spokeswoman Superintendent Thembi Nkwashu said five suspects were arrested following the burglary of Archbishop Tutu's house in Orlando West in the city early yesterday. "Five suspects have been arrested. Several goods were stolen from the house. We have so far recovered two television sets, one DVD set, the Nobel Peace Prize won by Tutu, some jewellery and the vehicle used for the robbery," she said. The round gold medal is worth...

A tractor-trailer that was stolen while the driver took a break has been recovered, but authorities were still searching Monday for the five tons of fertilizer it was carrying. Sheriff's deputies recovered the empty big-rig just before midnight Sunday, less than 12 hours after it was taken from a stretch of road used as a popular rest stop for truckers. The driver had parked in the industrial area near Griffith Park Sunday afternoon. When he returned about five hours later, the truck was gone, said Lt. David Young of the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Division. The truck turned up...

TOKYO (AP) -- Three masked men stole a massive block of gold worth more than $2 million from a Japanese museum in a heist police said Monday could have been prevented - if only the curators hadn't left its showcases wide open. The Ohashi Collection Kan museum in Takayama, central Japan, had kept the 220-pound gold bullion unguarded by sensors or even a case because it wanted visitors to be able to touch it, according to local police officer Shinji Kurake. But on Sunday, three men made off with the gold block in broad daylight, Kurake said. A female employee...

Separated by more than 7,000 miles, two different generations and two very different wars, a California Army National Guardsman in Baghdad wants to help bring Ben Waldron's World War II journal back home. The journal, rough-hewn and gray, was stolen Jan. 26, along with jewelry and cash from the Waldron home in Orangevale. In Baghdad, Lt. Col. Robert Spano, part of an engineering brigade from Sacramento, learned of the theft from a Bee story online. He felt an instant kinship -- he, too, is keeping a wartime journal -- and a duty to help. Spano is offering a $1,000 reward...

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) - Police say a security guard at the Anderson County Library fired his gun at a car after the driver triggered a security alarm. Police say security guard James Turner asked the woman to stop after the alarm went off as she left around 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. A police report states Turner chased the woman as she ran to her car and he said the bumper brushed his knee as she pulled away. Police say the guard then fired into the driver's door. Authorities say the woman kept going and they don't know if she was...

A plainclothes Seattle police officer investigating drug dealing in North Seattle shot and seriously wounded a motorist late Thursday after the man reportedly drove a stolen car at the officer. Now investigators must determine whether the officer followed department policies, which strongly discourage firing at moving vehicles and advise officers who find themselves in the path of a vehicle to try to "move out of the way, if possible, rather than discharging their firearm."

BEDFORD -- Here's a hairy case for investigators. A woman shoplifted two hairpieces worth $110 on Dec. 18 from Armstrong-McCall Beauty Supply. The theft was uncovered when an employee found two empty packages at the business in the 4100 block of Airport Freeway. The employee went into an office and reviewed videotape from a surveillance camera to determine what had happened to the packages. On the surveillance tape, a woman is shown opening the packages and placing the hairpieces in a sales catalog that she was carrying. She then left the business and drove away in a white car. No...

Two packages containing 110 pounds of explosives were stolen over the weekend from a construction site in Menifee, a federal firearms official said Tuesday. Workers arriving Monday at the site in the 25000 block of Newport Road found a chain-link fence broken and the door to the explosives magazine pried open, said Susan Raichel, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. An inventory of the materials later revealed that two 55-pound cases of Blastex blasting agent were missing, she said. The theft was reported about 6 a.m. Monday by an employee of the Edic and Watt Inc....

People who need people are in luck. People who need tickets might be screwed. A host of Barbra Streisand fans will not be singing a happy tune Tuesday in light of Ticketmaster's announcement that more than a thousand tickets for Streisand shows in Atlantic City, New York, Las Vegas and several other venues were purchased using stolen credit card numbers from the company's Website, and therefore are no longer valid. The ticket peddler said that all Streisand tickets found to have been purchased with bogus info have been invalidated, leaving those who purchased any of the tickets in question through...

Drugs Worth Millions Stolen From Area CompanyUPDATED: 12:07 am EDT August 10, 2006 WAKE COUNTY, N.C. -- Federal, state and local authorities are investigating an interstate drug heist, after millions of dollars in medications never made it to their intended destination. Authorities said that the alleged heist occurred at Longistics Corporation in Wake County near Research Triangle Park late Saturday. According to police, at least three suspects targeted the company, which handles shipments for the health care industry, and stole two tractor-trailers full of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. "The FBI estimates that the total value of the prescription and non-prescription...

ROME — If you get mugged in Naples, don't fight back. An American tourist was beaten by an angry mob in the streets of the southern Italian city after he chased down two men who had just stolen his camera, police said Wednesday. [snip] The American chased the thieves into a narrow alley when a group of local residents attacked him with punches and kicks, allowing the muggers to escape, Naples police said in a statement. [snip]

Tucson Police say men on a surveillance tape are doing more than just washing a car. They say they're trying to erase evidence. Tucson Police say that surveillance tape may solve the mystery for a family who says someone broke into their home. It's a story you'll see only on News 4. A Tucson family says they've been living in fear since their home was burglarized a week ago. Police say whoever did it took off with electronics, personal identification information, jewelry and the family car. Monday, the family talked only to News 4's Lupita Murillo. ------ The men in...

Stolen elections enable Bush to run againBy Dave Weinbaum Published: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:51 AM CDT Don’t buy the soap until you’re willing to come clean Bush has finally done it. He now acknowledges that Karl Rove stole two presidential elections in collusion with Diebold Corporation and the Supreme Court. He’s so repentant that he has decided to run once more for the presidency…legitimately. You see, if he was never legally elected, term limits don’t apply to him. Since he claims no knowledge of the actual crimes committed by Karl, learning of them after the fact, there’s no likelihood...

WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - A stolen laptop computer containing sensitive information on more than 26 million U.S. military veterans and servicemembers has been recovered and a preliminary review indicated no data was taken, the FBI and Veterans Affairs Department said on Thursday. The laptop and the external hard drive taken in early May from a VA employee's residence in suburban Washington were recovered, authorities said. "A preliminary review of the equipment by computer forensic teams has determined that the data base remains intact and has not been accessed since it was stolen," the agencies said in a statement. "A...

TGA's stolen body part alert June 22, 2006 - 12:28PM Australia's drug regulator has warned health departments and selected doctors that Australians might have been implanted with a medical product made from stolen human body parts. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) released a statement today, saying the skin graft product AlloDerm had been the subject of an international recall. It follows reports in Fairfax newspapers that 46 Australians had been implanted with the product, which contained parts stolen from funeral homes in New York. The bones, ligaments and skin - many of them aged and, due to the potential for...

Veterans Affairs head says stolen data possibly erasedNicholson reports agency's security remains vulnerable. HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer June 09. 2006 6:59AM Veteran Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson testifies about the theft of personal information of military personnel and veterans Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS WASHINGTON -- Stolen personal data for 26.5 million veterans and military personnel may have been erased by teenagers who sold the computer equipment, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Thursday. In testimony to Congress, Nicholson accepted responsibility for the May 3 burglary at a VA data analyst's home. He said the...

WASHINGTON - Personal data on more than 2.2 million active-duty military personnel — not just 50,000 as initially believed — were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the government said Tuesday. VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said the agency was mistaken when it said over the weekend that up to 50,000 Navy and National Guard personnel — and no other active-duty personnel — were affected by the May 3 burglary. In fact, names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of as many as 1.1 million active-duty personnel from all the armed forces, along with 430,000 members of...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently learned that an employee, a data analyst, took home electronic data from the VA, which he was not authorized to do. This behavior was in violation of our policies. This data contained identifying information including names, social security numbers, and dates of birth for up to 26.5 million veterans and some spouses, as well as some disability ratings. Importantly, the affected data did not include any of VA's electronic health records nor any financial information. The employee's home was burglarized and this data was stolen. The employee has been placed on administrative...

I have been a lurker here for many years- this is my first post and I apologize if it seems like a vanity. My passport was lost in the mail when I sent the old one back to the govt get it renewed. The post office records show that it was delivered to me, but I never got it. I am very worried that it will be misused for some kind of criminal act- smuggling illegal aliens or terrorism. The post office completely ignored me and the passport office said I should simply file some form. But I do not...

Authorities offered a $25,000 reward Tuesday for information about the theft of more than 500 pounds of explosives from a storage bunker near a gold mine. "The big concern for us is who took these explosives and why did that person take them," said John D'Angelo, spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency is investigating the theft with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and sharing information with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and U.S. Forest Service. The theft was reported on May 3 at Gold Mountain Mine Co. about 90 miles east...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A would-be home buyer with less than a dollar in her bank account pleaded guilty to fraud in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal an entire house. Wendy Jean-Francois, 44, of Morrisville, pleaded guilty Monday in Bucks County Court to multiple counts of fraud, forgery and related charges. Prosecutors said Jean-Francois had 97 cents in her bank account when she sat down Oct. 5 at a settlement table at Rainbow Assurance, a mortgage title firm in Falls. She used two checks totaling $63,000 and a letter vouching for them, purportedly from a Wachovia Bank manager,...

LIMA, Peru - When the body of Claudina Herrera was discovered nearly five months ago by the side of a highway, curled in the fetal position in a cardboard box, the cause of death was obvious: The pregnant 18-year-old's belly was sliced wide open, and her baby was gone. Within days, her premature girl was located in intensive care at a public hospital, and the woman who had shown up with the baby _ covered in blood and saying she had given birth in a taxi _ was arrested along with four others. She was later found to be infertile....

NEW YORK, March 3, 2006 (AFP) - Holocaust survivors and victims' families have filed a lawsuit in New York seeking compensation from France for property taken from 75,000 Jews who were deported to Nazi death camps in World War II. As well as the French government, the lawsuit names the state-run SNCF railway and the pension manager for French civil servants, CDC, as defendants who "committed, conspired to commit and aided and abetted others who committed crimes against humanity." France's culpability, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, stemmed from its operation of holding camps...

Patricia Battisti had thought her back surgery in early 2005 was routine. A letter from her hospital nearly a year later made it clear she was wrong. Battisti was informed that the cadaver bone that was implanted in her back may have been infected with various viruses -- the result of what investigators say was a large-scale scheme in which corpses were cut up and body parts illegally sold.

RAVENNA, Ohio (AP) -- A man facing a big bill because he had blown the engine in his 1997 BMW decided to bury his car instead and collect $20,000 from his insurance company by claiming it was stolen. Matthew Mueller rented a backhoe in October 2002 and buried the car on property owned by his father in rural northeast Ohio. Police received tips last year and excavated the vehicle. Mueller, 35, of Akron, was sentenced to a year in prison for insurance fraud, tampering with evidence, falsification and receiving stolen property. He apologized in Portage County Common Pleas Court on...

Nuclear Vials Presumed Stolen, Questions Remain About Safety and Procedures Federal and state officials report they still have not located two vials of radioactive material that went missing November 3 as they were being shipped by truck from Albuquerque to Kilgore, Texas. Two plastic tubes of antimony-124, a highly toxic and radioactive liquid primarily used by the oil and gas industry, are looking increasingly like they have been stolen somewhere en route from Albuquerque to Kilgore, Texas, according to New Mexico and federal officials. An official event notification filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by Pro Technics, one of the...

MIDI - SILENCE IS GOLDEN Shelton could see he'd vote illegally...but the fascist inside her prevailed Last year's obscene...they stole it for Christine...many DemocRATS should be in jail One more is stolen up in Washington One more is stolen, stolen...that is how it's done They won't get beat 'cause they know how to cheat...and the end's justifying the means They don't hold back...they'd stab you in the back...marching orders come from Howard Dean One more is stolen up in Washington One more is stolen, stolen...that is how it's done We'd like to see shackles on dear Nancy...as they drag...

Top Local Stories Elkhart Officer’s Gun, Taser Stolen From Car (WSBT) A number of car break-ins in Elkhart County have police concerned, especially after the latest victim was one of their own. An Elkhart Police officer's semi-automatic rifle and his taser were stolen from his personal car overnight Wednesday in northern Elkhart County. It's a .223 caliber rifle, it's intended for law enforcement only,” said Capt. Tom Love of the Elkhart Police Department. “it's a great concern that it's out there. Obviously we want to get the gun back.” Since September, county police have taken 60 reports of car break-ins...

Prosecutors crack down on Katrina fraud By Kevin Krolicki NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced a coordinated initiative to fight fraud related to Hurricane Katrina and said billions of dollars in hurricane relief funds were at risk of being wasted or stolen. The anti-fraud command center will include representatives from the FBI, tax authorities, Secret Service and state and local police. The storm-battered Gulf Coast region is preparing for an influx of federal money that could top $200 billion. "We all know why we are here," assistant FBI director Chris Swecker said at a meeting of officials...

SEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Armed Iraqis stole millions of dollars worth of personal computers and Internet equipment donated by South Korea while it was being transported near Baghdad late last month, a South Korean official said on Tuesday. The Korea International Cooperation Agency, a government-linked aid agency, supplied the equipment for use in Iraqi universities, the official from the South Korean foreign ministry said.

MEDFORD, Ore. - Police are looking for a man who robbed a coffee stand and paid for his cup of java with some of the money he had just stolen. ADVERTISEMENT Police said the man rode his bicycle up to the stand just before 7 a.m. on Thursday and ordered a coffee. He then told the female employee that he had a gun and demanded money. The attendant handed over an undisclosed amount of cash. Before he left, the man paid for the coffee with the money just handed to him. The man is described as white, in his mid...

PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- A top NASCAR racer had one of his cars stolen during a trip through Central Ohio. Someone stole Mark Martin's No. 6 car and it hasn't been seen since, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported. Early Saturday, at a Holiday Inn in Pickerington, a stock car worth $250,000 was stolen. Martin's batman car was inside a racing trailer when someone stole the Ford F-150 and the trailer hitched to it. Police said the thieves may not have even known that the racing car was inside. "Unless you're a race fan, or a race car driver, you wouldn't have...

Three lab mice that were exposed to the plague are missing from the Public Health research Institute in Newark. The animals could have been stolen or eaten by other animals in their cages. Officials say the risk to public safety is minimal because the infected mice would die quickly. The incident occurred more than two weeks ago. The research lab is located on the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. U-M-D-N-J has responsibility for security. The F-B-I and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating. State Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs tells The Star-Ledger...

A victim of Hurricane Katrina staying in metro Detroit had his sport utility vehicle stolen on Tuesday, Local 4 reported. Earl Walker was visiting WJR-Radio in Detroit's new center area when his Jeep Cherokee was stolen.

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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey said Thursday it now believes that no files sought by investigators were stolen during a break-in. ``After a thorough investigation of reports about missing documents following the break-in that occurred during the last weekend in July, we have concluded with a high degree of confidence, that no documents requested of UMDNJ by any outstanding subpoena are missing due to the break-in. Documents responsive to the subpoenas had been removed to a secure location before the time of the break-in,'' the school said in a statement. The statement came a week after...

INTERLAKEN, Switzerland (AP) - A 184-pound stone that has been tossed for a century in a Swiss celebration of folklore and national heritage has been stolen, authorities said Saturday. The "Unspunnenstein," named after the site of Switzerland's most revered stone-throwing contest, was stolen Saturday morning from a hotel in the central Swiss city of Interlaken where it was on display before the competition scheduled for Sept. 3-4, authorities said. The stone is one of country's most cherished cultural objects and recalls a gathering called two centuries ago to reassert Switzerland's identity in the chaos of Napoleon's Europe. While stone-throwing has...