Robber gets 25 years for stealing $80 from pizza shop

A 23-year-old Clinton man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating a Pizza Hut employee and stealing $80, prosecutors said.

Thomas Williams and an accomplice robbed the Clinton Pizza Hut in January. When they walked in, Williams hit the female employee at the cash register in the head with his gun and then grabbed cash from the register, authorities said. He and the other man then fled in a minivan.