National Geographic revisits L.A. bank shootout
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LOS ANGELES  - It was about 10 years ago that in the Pantheon of Crazies, Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu were given instant admission and seated at the head of the table. They're the full-body-armored "High Incident Bandits" who robbed the Bank of America branch in North Hollywood and unloaded their AK-47s and other weapons of mass destruction against the piddling peashooters of the LAPD.
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Frightening incidents often take place, especially when shooting at different locations. But one incident
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A look at the historic building where the once-mighty media company is attempting to slither into the neighborhood.
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Brazil is cracking down on the drug gangs, prompting many a shootout in the poorer districts, known as favelas. The Guardian spent a day with a Rio photographer who risks his life almost daily to cover the battle
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Luis Fernando Montoya, the  former coach of Colombian club Once Caldas, was in intensive  care Wednesday after being shot twice in the neck in an  apparent robbery attempt, according to police.
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Two shootouts last week are part of a troubling phenomenon in which officer deaths have jumped to a level not seen in 29 years.
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Sonoma County sheriff&#39;s detectives are casting a wide net for anyone who was in or around Jenner about the time a young couple was shot to death on a beach while on a weekend getaway.
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Much of the stolen loot can only be spent in one local area BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Although they ve committed the world s biggest all-cash robbery in peacetime, the audacious raiders of a Belfast bank face ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - A group of Serbian actors filming a bank robbery scene played their parts so well that police mistook them for the real thing and hauled them off to a police station, a newspaper reported Wednesday.    The crew was filming the robbery scene Tuesday on a street in Novi Sad, 30 miles north of Belgrade, as part of a project to be shown in a multimedia performance at the nearby Serbian National Theater...
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Some cell-phone users were bemused a few years back when an episode of the Fox TV series 24 aired in which Jack Bower and his intrepid antiterrorist team used GPS technology to track the movements of a biological weapon riding on an underground train in Los Angeles.
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For more than three months, police Detective John Botte roamed the ruins of the World Trade Center, snapping photographs with his Leica Rangefinder camera and capturing hundreds of images of people at work on the monumental cleanup. His pictures soon appeared in a trio of books, most notably the best-selling autobiography of the city's police commissioner.
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There is a newfound willingness to confront the five nights of gunfire, looting and flames driven by race-tinged rage that disemboweled the cityâs midsection in 1967.
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CHICAGO -- The LaSalle Bank building fire Monday night unfolded much like the deadly Cook County building fire in October 2003, but there was one big difference -- no one died.
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SHREVEPORT, La. - A man who used a cardboard gun to rob a bank apparently wasn't paying much attention when he cased the building earlier and failed to notice it was across the street from an office used by Caddo Parish sheriff's detectives.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Luis Fernando Montoya, theformer coach of Colombian club Once Caldas, was in intensivecare Wednesday after being shot twice in the neck in anapparent robbery attempt, according to police.
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A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to rack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said. The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex.
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In the once notoriously deadly business culture of Hollywood, studio chiefs are a lot safer than they used to be.