Pawnbrokers

Here's the thing about brothers and "Hardcore Pawn: Chicago" co-stars Randy and Wayne Cohen: They fight a lot — and even came to blows this year — but they always make up. And once they're done patching things up, they tend to go right...

The owners of several downtown pawn shops who allegedly did business with dozens of "knock-knock burglars" were arrested Wednesday as police tried to stem the tide of break-ins on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley....

truTV announced yesterday that it would be expanding its hit Hardcore Pawn franchise with an all-new series set in Chicago, as the network has greenlit Hardcore Pawn: Chicago. The nine-episode, half-hour series is set to premiere later this year. Hardcore...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — In 1973, Joe Lyon was a 5-year-old kid oblivious to his future calling as a police officer. The same year, a woman named Genevieve Miller filed a theft report with the Fort Wayne Police Department after someone stole her...

BRENTWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) -- Surveillance cameras caught four suspected "knock-knock" burglars trying to break into a home in Brentwood. Security cameras at the house on West Sunset Boulevard produced clear shots of two of the suspects, who knocked on the...

A Hagerstown man who waited until his neighbor’s dog died before breaking into her home last year was sentenced Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court to seven years in state prison for that break-in and another burglary. Clyde Eugene Gatrell...

Like father, like daughter...unfortunately. Two years ago an elderly 70-year-old man gave Pete Michael Patterson a key to his Englewood East home to take care of his dog while he was hospitalized for a couple months, according to a news release...

Des Plaines aldermen checked the potential spread of pawn shops Monday, rejecting a request to open one just over a mile away from Rivers Casino. Aldermen voted 5-2 to deny a request from Lake in the Hills resident Peter Kozysa to amend Des Plaines&...

Elgin officials voted Wednesday to advance plans for the city’s second pawn shop, despite protests from some residents that the business will increase crime and damage the city’s image. Officials still must give final approval to a business...

Les Gold has to be a tough guy a lot in his business, running a pawn shop in rough-and-tumble Detroit. This is the side audiences have seen and grown to love over five seasons of truTV's Hardcore Pawn, which follows the daily goings-on at American Jewelry...

Les Gold, third generation, Keith Richard's look-a-like owner of the pawn shop stopped by to talk about the premier of their 6th Season on July 10! Les who dropped in with his daughter Ashley talked about how, in this economy, pawn shops are becoming the...

SAN DIEGO- Auto pawning has been an underground financial option for years, but these days pawning a car is making it's way into the mainstream.  At Auto Pawn San Diego, Kathy Wentz says she is seeing more middle class folks resorting to pawning their...