It’s not clear whether it was theft, drunkenness, or an overdeveloped sense of self-entitlement, but  a drunk Pittsburgh woman leaving a nightclub around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, reportedly got into an occupied unmarked police car, and tried to drive off with it. Ria Buford, 32, did not get very far, luckily. According to the two plainclothes [...]

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Last year a teen called 911 about a spider. This year, a Kansas woman nearly burned down her house, and a Washington State man did burn down his, each trying to kill a pesky arachnid. Turns out that police and judges react viscerally to spiders too, as a Pennsylvania man, who threw one at an officer, learned this week.

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Two leaders of a mosque in southwest Philadelphia of are accused of attempting to cut off the right hand of a man they allege was caught stealing from them. The man managed to keep his hand, but will no doubt think again before attending prayer at that mosque.

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Instead of leaving the crime scene as quickly as possible, as robbers typically do once they’re done robbing you at gunpoint, these three suspects locked the injured clerk in the bathroom, and proceeded to serve the station’s customers for the next two hours.

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The unnamed woman was in the intensive care unit at the Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg City, Pennsylvania, when staff noticed that, for a woman in her condition, she was getting an awful lot of visitors, and none of them stayed very long — just in and out all day. One didn’t even know her last name.

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What’s that mothers are always telling you to avoid? Swimming right after a meal, running with scissors, and climbing a tree with a running chainsaw? Maybe not quite, but any mother who thought of that last one, would definitely tell you not to do it.

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The Freeman boys had always been a handful, drinking beer from the age of six, and becoming druggie, racist skinheads in their teen years. No one, however, in the small community ever imagined the cold-blooded slaughter they would visit on their family on February 27, 1995.

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A Pennsylvania couple breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when a judge dropped contempt charges against them for the outrageous answers they gave on a juror questionnaire. The judge called the answers the most “intentionally disrespectful” jury questionnaire he had ever seen, but we have it here, so you can decide for yourself.

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On February 19, 2005, these two former lovers met for a date on busy South Street in Philadelphia. They left in his pickup in a good mood around 11:45 p.m. and disappeared without a trace. Tonight FBI will erect a digital billboard on South St. to try to jog people’s memories about that night nine long years ago.

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In jail house interview on February 14, accused murderer Miranda Barbour, 19, confessed to killing a man she met on Craigslist in her car, but she also confessed to more than 22 other murders, a confession that police are taking very seriously.

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