Vandalism

Police are treating two separate incidents of church vandalism and small fires being set in Arcadia as potential religious hate crimes. Arcadia detectives said the first attack occurred either late Jan. 19 or early Jan. 20 at the Church of......

Maryland State Police and Sheriff's Office reports: Aberdeen Dwayne Webb, 44, of the 500 block of Pleasantwind Drive, was charged Sunday with second-degree assault. Shelby Barnes, 24, of the first block of Church Green, was charged Sunday with...

Maryland State Police and Sheriff's Office reports: Aberdeen Thomas Butler, 44, of the first block of Tree Drive, was charged Friday with four counts of theft below $1,000 and theft between $1,000 and $10,000. Forrest Plowman, 18, of the 100 block...

The man who has admitted to defacing Pablo Picasso's painting "Woman in a Red Armchair" at the Menil Collection in Houston last year is in custody this week after surrendering to authorities near the U.S.-Mexico border. Uriel Landeros had been on the...

Police are searching for vandals who defaced a nativity scene at a church and home in Huntington Beach, spray-painting it with swastikas and other crude drawings. Church officials discovered the graffiti at the St. Bonaventure Catholic Parish in the...

St. Bonaventure Catholic Parish officials were greeted by an unpleasant display when they arrived for Mass Sunday morning and found the church's Nativity scene vandalized. St. Bonaventure Business Manager Nancy Cesar said the damage, which was...

100 years ago — 1912 Robert McGavie, who arrived in Danville for an engagement at the Danville Opera House is the tallest man ever seen in this city. He is seven feet two inches tall. With his partner, Scots, he puts on a sharpshooter act that...

An Ebensburg man has been accused of vandalizing two Windber Borough businesses and a Paint Township police officer’s truck.     Police said James Richard McDonald Jr., 46, Manor Drive, caused more than $2,300 worth of damage overnight Nov. 29....

L.A. officials said a state law limiting the practice of issuing tickets to drivers who park at broken meters would cost the city a sizable chunk of ticket and parking fee revenue, and would encourage meter vandalism. The Los Angeles......

Should cars that park at broken meters be ticketed? The L.A. City Council thinks so. The council voted Wednesday to raffirm the city's two-year policy that makes it illegal to park at spaces with broken meters....

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to uphold a policy that makes it illegal to park at spaces with broken meters. The action excercises an option for cities to override a new state law that greatly limits the practice of issuing tickets to...

Aberdeen Aberdeen police report: Someone broke into a garage and stole a dirt bike, then broke into the home in the 300 block of South Drive last Friday. Two people were in custody on suspicion of stealing at Walmart on Saturday. A car was...