Approximately $3 million in historic gold nuggets were stolen from a display at the Siskiyou County Courthouse in Yreka, Calif., early this morning. All the gold found in the display was found in Siskiyou County, where thousands of gold-seeking forty-niners settled in the 1800s to make their fortunes.

Two McDonald County Jail inmates are accused of breaking out of jail and back into it Tuesday night, Sheriff Robert Evenson said. The two left the jail to buy meth.

It's almost like a story out of a, well, a Mark Twain novel. Ty Robinson’s admiration for the author lured him to Hannibal, Mo., but things went sour the night he arrived.

Police offered a drunken Somerville, Mass., man a ride home, only to have him drive off with the cruiser on Aug. 17, according to a police report.

Police arrested a Salem, Mass., man Tuesday who is accused of faking his death to get out of a pending court case.

Police in Raynham, Mass., are looking for a sword-wielding robber they say robbed a Hess Gas Station earlier this week.

State police arrested a Connecticut man Sunday on charges he drove a small floor sweeper into the rear of a Mohegan Sun maintenance department pickup truck.

A 17-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly threatening another woman with a samurai sword Tuesday in Springfield, Ill.

Police arrested a 27-year-old Canton, Ohio, man after they said he was caught hiding a TV in his pants at Wal-Mart.

Police say it took two sets of handcuffs and an unusual amount of effort to haul away a huge Massachusetts man accused of following home a woman from a bar, walking into her apartment building and exposing himself in an effort to have sex with her.