robbery
Jun 12 2008, AP

Heavily armed robbers stole two engravings by Pablo Picasso from an art museum in downtown Sao Paulo on Thursday, a museum official said.Carla Regina, a spokeswoman for the Pinacoteca do Estado museum said the bandits also took two oil paintings by...

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This image taken from bank surveillance videotape and released by the FBI Wednesday, July 16, 2008, shows a man holding a gun on an unidentified bank employee during an attempted robbery at a Wachovia Bank branch in Anniston, Ala., Wednesday, July 16,...