Obama-mask robber sentenced to 12 years in Austria

A man who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of US President Barack Obama has struck again, Austrian police said Friday.The disguised thief robbed a bank in the town of Handenberg in Upper Austria just before the bank closed at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT), police said in statement.Police believe the same man, disguised by his Obama mask, has been carrying out such bank raids for the past two years.He threatened the bank's employee with a gun, shouting: "This is a hold-up. Give me the money."

CALGARY — A judge has sentenced a psychiatrist who molested three court-appointed patients to five years in prison. Justice Donna Shelley said Dr. Aubrey Levin exploited his patients in a “predatory and repetitive manner.” “It was a horrible violation of the trust of these three patients,” the Queen’s Bench justice said in handing down her decision Thursday. The Calgary psychiatrist’s actions were an “extreme breach of a particularly vulnerable victim,” Shelley said. Levin was convicted on three counts of sexual assault by a jury earlier this week.

France’s most notorious criminal is on the run again after blasting out of prison Saturday in spectacular fashion, triggering an international manhunt for a man officials say is both extremely dangerous and brilliant.

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New York police Wednesday said they have arrested a suspect who robbed banks brandishing nothing more threatening than a bunch of flowers.Edward Pemberton, 44, a suspect in two bank robberies this month, was arrested in Brooklyn, New York Police Chief Raymond Kelly told reporters.Pemberton allegedly came up with a disarming way to pull off his latest bank heist Thursday in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood: he approached the teller's window with a large bouquet of flowers.

AKRON, Ohio — A self-styled street preacher was sentenced to death Thursday in the killings of three down-and-out men lured by bogus job offers posted on Craigslist. The jury that convicted Richard Beasley of murder recommended that he face execution. The judge had the option of reducing the sentence to life in prison.

Colorado court: Error led to release of prison chief slaying suspect about 4 years early DENVER (AP) — A clerical error allowed the man suspected of killing Colorado's prisons chief to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday.