Police in Uniontown, Pa., are searching today for three masked teens who burst into a southwestern Pennsylvania convenience store, but were content to steal only several bags of potato chips and bottles of soda.
Uniontown police say the bandits struck about 12:45 a.m. Monday at a Sunoco A Plus store.
Police say the thieves dropped a bag of chips at the scene of the crime, which will be analyzed for fingerprints and other evidence.
Police have no suspects, but say all three were wearing dark hooded sweatshirts.
— New York state police say two Pennsylvania men robbed an upstate New York gas station and might have gotten away if they'd remembered to do one thing — fuel up.
Troopers caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood of Carbondale and 50-year-old Phillip Weeks of Tunkannock after their getaway car ran out of gas while the were trying to escape late Monday night.
They're accused of using a knife to rob a clerk at the Quickway Convenience Store in Kirkwood, 80 miles south of Syracuse near the New York-Pennsylvania border. The clerk wasn't hurt.
Police found the pair about a mile away. Their car was on the side of the road.
They're being held in the Broome County Jail without bail. Troopers didn't know if they have lawyers.
— A vacant house going up in flames must have looked familiar to northwestern Ohio firefighters. Less than 24 hours earlier, they were at the same house putting out fires for a training exercise.
The cause of the fire early Wednesday in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania is under investigation.
On Tuesday morning, "controlled burn" fires had been set in the same house so four local lawmakers could suit up and accompany firefighters inside. The exercise was part of a program that gives officials a taste of what firefighting is like so they can understand fire department equipment and personnel needs.
The property will eventually be cleared to become public parkland.
— And, a woman accused of dipping into her ex-husband's bank account without permission blames her dog.
Arlington, Wash., police spokeswoman Kristin Banfield says detectives filed court orders to follow the money trail. They learned the money disappearing from the 42-year-old Arlington man's account was being used to pay for utility bills and other items at his ex-wife's home.
Banfield tells The Herald that the woman's first response was, "Her dog got into her purse and ate all her personal checks." The 50-year-old woman reportedly told police she had no choice but to take money from her former husband's account.
The women is under investigation for identity theft and forgery.
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