$1M reward offered for Swedish cash depot heist

The company that owns a cash depot targeted in a daring helicopter raid this week said Friday it is offering a reward of more than $1 million for information about the heist. G4S said it is offering up to 7 million Swedish kronor ($1.01 million) for information leading directly to the arrest and conviction of the offenders or the recovery of the stolen money

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5 Illinois family members were beaten to death, sheriff says

All five members of a family found slain inside a Beason, Illinois, home early this week were victims of blunt-force trauma, police said Thursday. A pathologist determined that the five — Raymond Gee, 46; Ruth Gee, 39; and three children — had been beaten to death, Logan County Sheriff Steve Nichols told reporters

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In Craigslist slaying, Internet was also suspect’s undoing

They were crimes born of the Internet age — romantic solicitations on popular Web site Craigslist that police say led to the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels this past spring. And it was high-tech, 21st-century sleuthing, along with some old-fashioned gumshoe detective work, that put police on the trail toward a suspect and eventually an arrest.

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Thais protest peacefully against military government

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. About 30,000 protesters, who wore red shirts in support of Thaksin, gathered in the country’s capital near the Government House, said police Lt

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