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Police Seek Mummy in Gas Station Robbery

State police in Pennsylvania are trying to track down a mummy. Law enforcement officials say a man entered an Exxon Buy N' Fly mini-mart in the village of Herminie on Feb. 21 with a hatchet in his hand and dark cloth wrapped around his face like a mummy. No one was injured in the robbery, and the suspect escaped from the...

Gas Station Roof Collapses in Massachusetts [VIDEO]

Man Arrested for Allegedly Using Tree Branch in Stickup

(Dec. 9) -- Police say a California man took the word "stickup" literally when he robbed a gas station armed with a tree branch. Cops in Irvine believe Herlin Mendez worked with an accomplice to hold up a Shell station on Nov. 22. The accomplice, who remains at large, reportedly approached a gas station clerk with some...

BP Gas Stations Debate Changing Their Name

NEW ORLEANS (July 30) -- BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of its effort to repair the company's badly damaged reputation. Some who have seen their sales plunge because of...

Spill Oil Could Soon Seep Into Your Local Gas Station

NEW ORLEANS (June 12) -- Oil from the nation's worst spill could soon end up at gas stations, construction sites and even grocery stores once BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico to raise money for wildlife protection. Energy giant BP PLC announced this week it will donate its share of the...

Background on gas station

A filling station, fueling station, garage, gasbar (Canada), gas station (United States and Canada), petrol pump (India), petrol garage, petrol kiosk (Singapore), petrol station (United Kingdom, Ireland and Hong Kong), service station, or servo (Australia), is a facility which sells fuel and usually lubricants for motor vehicles.

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