Crime Blotter

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How to stop a store stick-up: Tell the robber that Jesus wouldn't approve. That was the strategy used by the proprietor of a south Florida cell phone store when an armed robber busted into his shop. "She said she believed the man when he said he attended church and wasn't a bad person. She told him the answer to his financial problems wasn't in the cash register." [AP]