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FORT WORTH — Whatever happened to spoiling your grandchildren with cookies? A gun-toting granny clad in pajamas and house shoes robbed an east Fort Worth convenience store early Thursday, telling the clerk, "I am doing this for my grandkids." The robbery occurred at about 3:45 a.m. at the RaceTrac at 1840 Eastchase Parkway. According to a police report, the woman entered the store, grabbed an orange drink, then told the clerk she needed two cartons of Newport cigarettes and two cigarillos. The clerk said that when he turned around after retrieving her items, the woman pulled a handgun from beneath...

DENTON - A mouse trap ensnared a thief for one Denton woman after she said a crook hit her purse one too many times. After Jody Rodriguez briefly left her purse unattended under her work desk at the Denia Recreation Center, she said she returned to notice an item once inside the bag was now on her desk. “And that’s when I realized that somebody had taken money out of my purse on Friday,” Ms. Rodriguez said. A few days later, the thief struck again. “I went to get money out for pizza at my house and I noticed my...