Thieves steal art worth $163 million

Three masked men robbed a Zurich museum of 4 paintings Sunday, according to the Star Tribune. The E.G. Buehrle Collection is one of Europe's finest private museums police said, and the robbers were able to make off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet for a net worth of $163 million dollars. It was the largest art robbery in Switzerland's history, and is being compared to the theft of the Munch Museum in Norway in 2004.

A little after closing Sunday evening 3 men entered the museum wearing dark clothes and masks. One used a pistol to force personnel to the floor while the other two collected the paintings, according to police. Afterwards they loaded the paintings into a white van andSteve Coburn, the co-owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner California Chrome, went from a hero signing autographs at Belmont Park on Saturday to a goat, all in a matter of minutes after his horse finished fourth in the Belmont Stakes because of a few ill-chosen words spoken in disappointment.

Coburn, who lives near Topaz Lake, regained a lot of that original luster on Monday, however, when he told ABC's "Good Morning America" that he was "ashamed" of his actions after the race, which was won by the well-rested Tonalist.

"I need to apologize to the world and America, our fans that have written us, given us so much support," Coburn said. "I apologize, I sincerely apologize."

Coburn apologized to his wife, to co-owner Perry Martin, California Chrome's trainer Art Sherman