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HOUSTON (AP) — Three boys, ages 11, 12 and 16, and dubbed the “Little Rascals," have been arrested for robbing a bank in Houston, authorities confirmed Wednesday. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the youngsters are in custody and have been charged with robbery by threat. Gonzalez said that because of their ages, no additional information would be released, and the sheriff's office didn't immediately respond to a request for more information. The FBI’s Houston office says they were wanted for robbing a Wells Fargo bank in the Greenspoint area of north Houston on March 14. The FBI posted an...

The three boys ranged in age from 11 to 16. A trio of tiny bank robbers dubbed the “little rascals” were arrested by the FBI Tuesday for robbing a Wells Fargo in Houston. The three boys, ages 11, 12 and 16, were charged with robbery ... “Because they are juveniles, their names and no additional details will be released,... Images of the three baby-faced suspects were blasted out following the robbery .. All three were wearing hoodies and didn’t look old enough to drive or .

he placing of a rainbow-colored sticker, with a badge and “Safe Place” lettering across it, officially designated Bank of America as the largest partner with Tucson Police Department’s Safe Place program to provide safe harbor for the LGBTQ community. Bank of America is implementing the program at 13 locations found as far east as Houghton Road, Ajo Way to the west and Cortaro and Valencia roads to the north and south. Each will provide a safe place for victims of crimes. Tucson is the fifth city where Bank of America has partnered with local law enforcement to promote similar...

Mon Dieu! The globalists among us are all in a snit that President Trump attended the G7 Summit in Quebec and he didn’t play nice. Trump made himself perfectly clear before he left Washington Friday that he intends to make America’s trade deals great again. He will not allow other countries to impose higher tariffs on the U.S. without responding in kind. Why is this a surprise?

On May 1, Jason Bigelow’s body was discovered in an abandoned house near High Point. He had been missing from his Asheboro home for a week, and while the autopsy results are still pending, his wife, Anna, has no doubt what the cause of death was. On April 30, the day before he was found, she posted this on Facebook in one angry, anguished burst: “My husband is missing and no one has heard from him in 6 days. Even in his darkest of times he would have not gone that long without communication. It’s hard to know what...

On March 28, billionaire investor Jim Rogers appeared as a guest on the CNBC program, Squawk on the Street. During the four minute interview, Rogers was pointedly asked if what occurred in Cyprus was a one time deal, or if this is now a template for the future of Western economies and banks. Without hesitation, Rogers said that this is going to happen, and taking people's money from their bank accounts is a certainty as both the IMF and ECB have already condoned it in their precedent. CNBC Host Carl Quintinella: What's your appetite on Europe at these levels? Jim...

Three senior residents have been seized on charges of plotting to rob a suburban Chicago bank. The trio was arrested Thursday night by Federal Authorities as they approached a Bridgeport residence of a dead mob leader that they had purportedly aimed for a home incursion. Inspectors said that they had previously tried to drill the home. Authorities also think that they were involved in a 2007 takeover burglary of another bank, which netted around $120,000. Two of the suspects, Joseph "Jerry" Scalise, 73, of Clarendon Hills, and Arthur Rachel, 71, of Chicago, were well-known Chicago mob figures who were released...

The ABCNews.com Law and Justice front page currently features an article, dramatically titled "Will Steal For Food: Crisis Creates Criminals." On that same page, alleged bank robber Bruce Windsor is featured in an orange jumpsuit above a caption that reads: "In poor economy, police have arrested a rash of atypical alleged bank robbers." If you click on that story, you will get to read about a grand total of three bank robberies supporting the authors' main point that "[a]cross the country, seemingly upstanding citizens like Windsor are being accused of committing crimes just to pay the bills." Starting with Bruce...

It's one of the ironies of the U.S. financial bailout: The banking executives now managing billions in taxpayer money are the same ones who oversaw the industry's near collapse. At banks receiving federal bailout money, nearly nine of every 10 of the most senior executives from 2006 are still on the job, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory and company documents. Even top executives whose banks made such risky loans that they imperiled the economy have been largely spared any threat to their jobs. Less fortunate are more than 100,000 bank employees laid off during a two-year stretch...

In what may be the latest sign of the harsh economic times, five banks in four boroughs were robbed on Monday, four of them within an hour and a half. But if the robberies, in their frequency and timing, were startling, so too was their brazenness. Most of them occurred in heavily trafficked areas in broad daylight, including one that took place steps away from Lincoln Center in the middle of the afternoon. Bank robberies in the city are up by 54 percent this year, the Police Department said, to 431 as of Monday afternoon, from 280 at this time...

Indianapolis - Police announced the arrests Friday of two men in connection with an April bank robbery and shooting. The high-profile case triggered a massive manhunt after a pregnant teller was shot at the Huntington Bank on 21st and Post Road. The woman survived, but her unborn twin girls did not...

Cobb police announced on Thursday night the arrest of two young women in a Tuesday bank holdup, and revealed a twist in their investigation: The alleged robbers are 19 and were working in cahoots with the bank teller. The teller has also been arrested, along with a fourth person. Police did not immediately say how the fourth person was connected. The arrest caps two days of intense media scrutiny into the robbery at a Bank of America branch inside a Kroger store in Acworth. Police credited publicity that led to a solid tip and the arrest.

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid died not in a gunbattle with soldiers but in a suicide pact, according to a new play based on police archives from the Bolivian mining town where the legendary American outlaws met their end.

There are hornets in the siding of my home. Every time I smoke them out, they set up shop elsewhere. But today’s tale is about the ones inside. A few get in through the bathroom vent. They wear themselves out against the plate glass window, trying to escape. Eventually, they fall to the floor and die. I realized this week that there is a lot in common between those dying hornets and civilization in the United States. The dying hornets first lose their ability to fly, and then their ability to walk. But driven by ancient memories, they try to...

Hunt says well-organized gangs moved in, looted banks, jewelry stores. "It was as bad as the early days in Bagdad."

Germany's three oldest bank robbers were jailed yesterday after admitting they stole more than €1.2 million ($1.9 million) in 14 raids across a number of provincial towns. The men, who became known as the "Grandpa Gang", started their spree in 1988 and were arrested last year when police set a trap. A court in Hagen sentenced 74-year-old Rudolf Richter - known as Rudi - together with Wilfried Ackermann, 73, and Lothar Ackermann, 64, to between nine and 12 years in jail. Most of the robberies went without a hitch, but the court was told that, on one occasion during an...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

Belfast: Where the Catholics of Short Strand once saw warriors protecting them, now they see thugs whose time is past. BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Five crying sisters each had a hand atop their murdered brother's casket as they walked to the altar of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, and the congregation sang "Here I Am Lord." And people who attended the funeral swore that enough tears flowed that the pews could have floated away.

Sinn Féin's US fundraising under threat By Jimmy Burns Published: February 28 2005 02:00 | Last updated: February 28 2005 02:00 Mounting allegations of IRA involvement in the £26.5m Belfast bank robbery and growing police suspicions of a much wider involvement of the Irish republican movement in money-laundering operations are threatening Sinn Féin's legitimate fundraising operations in the US, say diplomatic sources in Washington. According to Irish officials, the fact that the onslaught on the alleged criminal activity of Irish republicans is being led by the Irish government is fuelling dissent among supporters of Sinn Féin, the IRA's political wing,...

<p>That's a scenario the FBI has seen unfold in financial institutions across the country. Bank robberies rose 64 percent last year in New York City. Massachusetts saw a 30 percent rise - to 303 robberies. Heists were also up statewide in Utah, Oregon, and Oklahoma.</p>