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ABC News reports police are searching for two armed robbers who held up a bank in Queens.

Investigators released surveillance photos of the men, who walked into a TD Bank in Kew Garden Hills, just after 7 Friday night.
They announced a robbery and ordered a bank employee to the ground.
One of the suspects threatened the clerk with a gun while the other jumped over the counter and stole $142 before they both fled the scene.
No one was hurt.

Suspect 1 is described as 6'0 to 6'02 tall, wearing a blue hooded wind breaker with "NY" logo, black jeans and black gloves with a scarf covering his face.

Suspect 2 is described as 5'10 to 6'0 tall, dark complexion, medium build, wearing a hat and sunglasses, a dark jacket, black gloves and dark jeans with dark colored boots.
Anyone with information in is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

NY Daily News reports in a touching pre-New Year's message, "Good Morning America" co-host and cancer survivor Robin Roberts gratefully thanked her loved ones for a milestone year of health, among them she mentioned her longtime girlfriend.

It was the first time the popular ABC News morning show host had publicly acknowledged that she is a lesbian.

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AZ Centralreports the man shot and killed by a Phoenix police detective during a Saturday bank robbery has been identified as the suspect in a cross-country crime spree that includes the death of a Mississippi police officer and multiple bank robberies, law enforcement officials said Sunday.


The investigation involved local, state and federal agencies, including the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and Tupelo police, as well as a national media campaign to generate tips from the public. At one point, there was a reward of up to $200,000.

The bloody exchange Saturday in Phoenix brings to a close a week-long manhunt for Mario Edward Garnett, 40, the man police said is responsible for an attempted bank robbery in Atlanta and a bank robbery in Tupelo, Miss. that led to the killing of Tupelo Police Department Officer Gale Stauffer and wounding of fellow Officer Joseph Maher.

The man killed in Phoenix Saturday was identified Sunday as Garnett, a four-year US Army veteran. He was shot by a Phoenix police detective during a robbery and subsequent shootout at about 10 a.m. Saturday at the Compass Bank near 34th Avenue and Thomas Road, Phoenix police said. Law enformcment officials from the FBI confirmed on Sunday that Garnett is the man suspected of committing the other crimes.

Phoenix Police Department spokesman James Holmes said a witness waiting in line at a drive-through fast-food restaurant across the street from the Compass Bank called 911 at 10 a.m. and said he spotted a masked man going into the bank.

Garnett, who was wearing a mask, pointed a weapon at the manager and ordered him to open the teller drawers while demanding everyone else get on the ground, Holmes said. At one point, he had the manager and one of the tellers open the vault.

Police said Garnett left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.

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Washington Examiner reports a controversial article from David D. Kirkpatrick of the New York Timespublished Saturday has received quite a bit of attention for claiming,
"extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi...turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault."


The terror attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

New York Rep. Peter King said that Kirkpatrick's assertion is "misleading," as reported by Fox News, in that Ansar al-Sharia, an extremist Islamic group who are widely known to be behind the attack, is "believed to be an affiliate terror group of Al Qaeda."
Ironically, the New York Times reported in October, 2012,

"In the months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the Obama administration received intelligence reports that Islamic extremist groups were operating training camps in the mountains near the Libyan city and that some of the fighters were 'Al Qaeda-leaning,' according to American and European officials." [emphasis added]

Kirkpatrick does not mention this report, in which he was a contributor, in his article on Saturday.

He also does not mention the attack on the CIA outpost in Benghazi just three months before the Sept. 11 attack.

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