Hillsmere - Two sisters, ages 80 and 89, fought off a home invader who broke into their Hillsmere house, county police said.
The women told police that at about 3:25 a.m. today, they were sitting at their dining room table in the 200 block of Cedar Lane.
Then they heard a loud bang.
The sound, they said, was a man in a hooded sweatshirt kicking in their door.
He entered their home, demanded money and rummaged through their purses.
As he searched for valuables, one woman grabbed a reaching stick and beat him on the head with it, police said.
That startled the...
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