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Fugitive couple arrested in South Africa 12:55 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 20, 2003Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa – An American couple dubbed the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde for a spate of bank robberies across the U.S. West were arrested in South Africa after eight years on the run, authorities said Wednesday. South African police and the FBI arrested Craig Michael Pritchert, 41, and Nova Ester Guthrie, 28, in Capetown on Tuesday night, South African police spokeswoman Mary Martins Engelbrecht said. The couple, who were on the FBI's most-wanted list, had been living in the country since 2000...

Struggling with Bank-Wrecking ATM Thieves Thu Jan 9, TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank robbers in Japan are increasingly willing to demolish anything in their path to get at wads of cash. A report issued by the National Police Agency Thursday said there had been a huge increase in the number of thieves using large mechanical diggers to remove automated teller machines (ATMs) from bank lobbies. After abandoning the diggers, which are often stolen, criminals usually transport the ATMs by truck to quiet areas where they can spring them open and get at the money inside. The police said there were 57...

MADISON, Neb. (AP) - Three men accused of killing five people in one of the nation's deadliest bank robberies appeared in court for the first time Friday.A fourth suspect, who was believed to have been driving the group's planned getaway car in the robbery at nearby Norfolk, also stood before the judge as murder and weapons charges were read.Friends of the suspects and relatives of the four employees and a customer killed had filled the 35-seat courtroom. The slain customer's oldest, college-age daughter wept as she stood with others in a hallway before the bond hearing, which was delayed by...