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Authorities in Toledo, Ohio said a woman and her son robbed an area tax preparation office with nothing more than a curling iron wrapped up in a towel. The Toledo Police Department said Sonia Watson and her son Antonio are on the run after robbing Liberty Tax Services of $280, WUPW-TV reported. Officers said the duo entered the business, threatened the employees and then Watson struck a woman with the curling iron when she refused to give up her possessions. The pair fled the office but were caught on surveillance video as they exited.

Today is election day in Massachusetts, for what could be the most important and ironic political race of the last 100 years: A country swerving out of control; helmed by a supermajority Democratic machine that might just be slammed back on the rails by a one-party Democratic state, that in any other time but this one, is of the bluest kind... Snip: What Martha Coakley could never have guessed, was that in 2010, a citizen reporter would talk to Frank Frisoli and Frank would tell him an intimate detail of the case that has never been reported until now: and...

An alleged armed robber has just had the beating of a lifetime, at the hands of nearly 30 women inside a Shreveport beauty school. Blalock's Beauty School instructor Dianne Mitchell says, “Oh, I put something on him baby. He wasn't coming up out of here and telling nobody he robbed us and got away with it." Mitchell says the man walked in pointing a gun and telling the women to clean out their purses and hand him the cash. That's until, she tripped him. Afterwards she says, “I beat him with a stick." They all beat him with sticks, table...