Copper wire thieves have been a persistent problem across the valley for years, but Arts District businesses have been hit hard this summer. Meanwhile, the Las Vegas City Council took what it hopes ...

Copper prices have climbed high enough that bare wire and pipe are starting to look like fast cash, and thieves are following ...

Thieves are increasingly targeting the copper wires that keep America’s power grids and phone networks running.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Las Vegas Metro police confirmed three people are arrested in connection to copper wire theft that impacted power for Harry Reid International Airport and a Las Vegas Strip ...

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Just after midnight in September, a pickup truck struck and killed a 55-year-old woman crossing an intersection in a motorized wheelchair on a dark stretch of Kansas City, Missouri, highway. The ...

OAKLAND — A 40-year-old man was killed by an electric shock Wednesday night while apparently stripping copper wire from an abandoned West Oakland warehouse, police said. Officers responded at 8:31 p.m ...

A 35-year-old man allegedly caught in the act of stripping copper wiring from a house on the Texas State Technical College campus Saturday remained Wednesday in McLennan County Jail, charged with ...

FORREST COUNTY, MS (WDAM) - A father and son have been charged in a Forrest County copper theft. Casey and David Rayburn are accused of causing 2,500 Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association ...