Blyleven: The dos and dont’s of stealing signs

Blyleven: Everyone steals signs in baseball, but to use that knowledge to help an opponent, as Miguel Tejada was accused of doing, is a big no-no.

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Va. pastor sentenced for stealing more than $200K

A Virginia Beach pastor will spend 10 months behind bars for stealing more than $200,000 from his former church and its insurance company. Kenneth L. Montgomery was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison, with all but 10 months suspended.

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Police: Iowa man used stolen cash to pay bond

Police said a 19-year-old man used cash stolen in a bank robbery to pay a bond for an outstanding warrant. Police charged the man with first-degree bank robbery after the Monday morning robbery of American Bank and Trust.

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2 Ky. men sent to jail for Nativity theft

A Christmas prank in a small Kentucky town has netted jail time for two young men who stole the baby Jesus.

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Man allegedly steals 'prisoner' T-shirt from jail

A 20-year-old man was locked up once again after being charged with stealing his prisoner T-shirt from a previous stint at the Fresno County Jail. The man was arrested last week on suspicion of child abuse and possession of marijuana. After he was released from jail last Thursday, police said he nearly caused a collision while riding his bike.

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15 people charged in Philly house stealing scheme

Fifteen people have been charged with fraudulently claiming ownership of unoccupied homes and then selling them to unsuspecting buyers, including many immigrants with limited understanding of English and real estate procedures.

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Carjack suspect nabbed in Mich. auto repair class

Authorities said a 19-year-old carjacking suspect from Detroit who was studying auto repair at a community college may have been using the skills he learned in class to dismantle stolen vehicles.

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States, cities crack down on thefts of recyclables

Every Wednesday night, Bruce Johnson dutifully puts his garbage and recycling on the curb for pickup, and every week he fumes as small trucks idle in front of his home and strangers dig through his bins stealing trash they aim to turn into treasure.

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Ax Begins to Fall on Illegal Loggers

The crime scene — a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps — makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated.

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A father was arrested and charged over the weekend in a case of discipline that Cincinnati police say went too far.

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We Must Face The Consequences.......

It has become glaringly apparent that we are in trouble. You can decide for yourself what the trouble is for you in your life. You can even deny that we are facing a bleak future if you wish. for me and mine, we have decided that it is time.

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AN ABORIGINAL boy, 12, will face a children's court today charged with receiving a stolen Freddo frog. The chocolate frog, allegedly shoplifted by the child's friend from a Coles supermarket in regional Western Australia, usually sells for about 70 cents.

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After Mr King was seen entering the Airport and returning with a piece of luggage, King was put under surveillance, where they later seen him return to the airport once again, grab some luggage and returned to put it in his car, Upon going to his home they found so many peices o …

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A LaPorte woman was stabbed Monday morning when she tried stopping her female attacker from stealing money.

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Federal Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle ruled earlier this year in Las Vegas that MERS had no standing because the company is not the real party in interest — it doesn't actually own the loan. In other words, in the course of bankruptcy proceedings, MERS had no claim to the house.

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A woman's attempt to avoid arrest over shoplifting some beef jerky proved ineffective, as it turned out that stripping in front of policemen won't stop them from arresting you. Kicking them in the groin also doesn't help you cause, apparently.

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How's this for friendship? Keith Miller walked into a pawn shop and saw his longtime pal Alexander Armando Martin.

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It's still unclear exactly how 20,000 passwords discovered on the Web recently were stolen, but the finding reveals much in the way of people's password habits: some of us are lazy.

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It wasn't the Ham-burglar who did it but his partner, the "Milk Shake Burglar," say Cape Coral cops.

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News flash. Being handicapped doesn't give you a license to steal.

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A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office. Myles Weathers, formerly of Springfield, took DVDs that were mailed by Netflix to customers for a year beginning in January 2007.

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For stealing marijuana and cash from a motorist during a traffic stop, former Miami-Dade police officer Jesus Rodolfo Hernandez must spend 30 days in jail and give up his law-enforcement credentials.

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A former city housing worker faces more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to a scheme under which her daugher paid $1 to buy a house the city hoped to sell for $40,000

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Decisions, decisions...It looks like Antonio Demetrius Ewing, of Century, made a poor one.

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It wasn't the missing GPS, toll money or costume jewelry that botherd Amber Guy when she noticed someone who broke into her car. It was when she found out the crooks robbed her daughter's imaginiation

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Metro police said she was electrocuted pulling wire from a vacant car dealership to try and steal copper. The woman was with a group of at least four other people who broke into the vacant Carl Black Chevrolet dealership on Murfreesboro Road south of downtown Nashville.

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A warrant has been issued in Wagoner County District Court for a former night manager of Wagoner's Walmart store.

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A Salem man was shocked after he allegedly attempted to steal copper wire from a high-voltage box, police said.

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The initiative has been launched in an area where theft from cars has been rife. "We have had a bit problem with thefts from cars, so we decided to be a bit more innovative," said Superintendent Jim Davis, the officer behind the initiative.

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A woman accused of stealing more than $240,000 was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday.

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Some slink away into the shadows; others make a sheepish return home. But when one young man decided to desert the French military this summer, he did so in style – on a succession of stolen luxury yachts.

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Medical Fraud: Get Angrier than a Town Hall Meeting

Inspired by some comments below from a fellow viner, Pamela Drew, I think Americans could make an immediate and positive impact by aggressively combatting all forms of Medicare, Medicaid, Medical, Prescription and Insurance Fraud.

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Many people like eBay, but prosecutors said Shawen Donnellan really, really liked eBay.

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NIAGARA FALLS—Neighborhood youngsters are suspected of stealing two racks of ribs from a grill outside a Ninth Street home Thursday afternoon.

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