It’s normal for parents to worry about older kids bullying their children and taking their milk money. But the mother a second grade student in Baltimore, Maryland, says it was a math teacher who robbed her seven-year-old son of cash for his lunch. Marcelius Lockes allegedly took quarters from Kori Cummings, a special needs student, to buy soda for herself, leaving him with no money to pay for his school meal, according to a lawsuit filed... 

Muffled sobs erupted Friday in a courtroom packed with supporters of a Roman Catholic priest who was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison and ordered to repay $650,000 he acknowledged embezzling from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support his gambling habit. Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe, 59, stood straight and offered no reaction as U.S. District Judge James Mahan credited him for accepting responsibility for looting parish votive... 

A beefy British crook was nabbed after some crafty software on a laptop he stole snapped a picture of him sleeping and pinpointed his location, London’s The Sun reported. Rastin Khalaji, 19, snatched an unidentified student’s computer from her house in Bristol, in southwest England, on Aug. 20, but wasn’t aware that the machine had been tricked out with an anti-theft device called Prey, authorities said. After the owner realized... 

An airline passenger was arrested as he left a flight after being accused of stealing $300 from the purse of a flight attendant. Torry Johnson had been flying back from a holiday in Iceland when airline staff claimed he stole foreign currency from the attendant’s purse. Mr Johnson, who was heading to Boston, Massachusetts, was confronted by angry Icelandair staff while the plane was in the air over Greenland. Police say Johnson returned the... 

Four burglars busted into a Brooklyn Best Buy store and made off with more than $100,000 worth of iPads in a matter of minutes. The tablet-craving crooks hit the gadget store in the Gateway Plaza in East New York about 4 a.m. They broke through the front door, busted their way into a locked office, grabbed $112,000 worth of iPads and fled. All that, in under four minutes. Detectives believe the Mac-stealers may have had help from someone on the inside,...