crime

The Bangor Savings Bank on the China Road in Winslow was robbed earlier today.

In Florida, Chad Winslow decided to break into a convenience store. How? Well, by sliding through a grease trap on the store's roof. The plan quickly went awry when he ended up stuck and covered in grease.

A thief in Boston is going to have to do some serious explaining the next time he goes to confession.

A teacher at the Kiddie Academy Childcare Facility in Morgan Hill, CA was arrested this week for trying to drug toddlers in her care. She allegedly put Sominex, a sleeping aid, in kids' drinks.

State Police have shot and killed Kurt Myers, the suspect in shootings that killed four people and injured two others in Herkimer and Mohawk, New York. Shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday, State Police, FBI and a K-9 unit entered the former Glory Days bar in Herkimer where Myers had been in hiding for nearly 16 hours and had at times exchanged fire with police.

An Oklahoma mother is in big trouble. You've heard about the facebook 'poke,' well how about the 'pokey?' Sequoyah County, Oklahoma police say this woman, I really don't want to call her a mother, tried to sell her children on the social media website.

Some people have no clue how to treat the handicapped.

I've heard of going to extremes to avoid a girlfriend, but this is taking it to extremes. Rahmell Pettway, 36, of Brooklyn, NY faked his own kidnapping.

So that's what Batman looks like without the molded armor. Makes us feel a little better.

The Waterville Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying the man who robbed KeyBank on Kennedy Memorial Drive Thursday, Feb. 21. The robber escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

An Oakland woman arrested two weeks ago for repeatedly dialing 911 without a good reason was arrested again this week. It was for the same crime. In fact, she has faced the same charge four times.

It's the kind of thing that, if you saw it in a movie, you'd call it implausible: international jewel thieves stole $50 million in diamonds at the airport.

Police in the Cayman Islands are on the look out for a local woman's tooth. They may well find it still stuck in the hand of the man who "stole" it from her.

Happy Valentine's Day, guys. Here's a morbid way to start a holiday centered around depictions of anatomically incorrect human hearts: Let's talk about Olympian Oscar Pistorius, who was just charged with shooting and killing his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his South African home. See, members of the Lonely Hearts Club? It's not so bad being single. At least your beloved won't kill you toda

Left on her own without legal representation, this girl (who was awaiting arraignment for a first arrest) was in over her head. It probably also didn't help that she didn't get the sobering reality of being physically present in court to knock some sense into her, since this is a video arraignment taking place from jail, where she is nervous and surrounded by other inmates. Oh, and it doesn't help

We've all done it, called someone by mistake on our cellphones. You hit the wrong button at the wrong time and before you know it someone in your contact list gets an unexpected call and you don't even know it. Some people call it pocket-dialing or 'butt-dialing.'