MINNEAPOLIS — A month before a new state law takes effect, scrap metal workers are suing the Minnesota Department of Commerce. The Copper Wire Theft Law aims to make it more difficult for thieves to ...

A pair of parolees were caught on camera using a truck to rip copper wire from a freeway overpass south of Fresno amid a rash ...

As surging copper wire thefts are leaving many Los Angeles communities in the dark, a new statewide metal theft law set to kick in next year is aimed at recyclers who buy the stolen metal. The Sixth ...

California Highway Patrol air operations spotted and helped stop an alleged copper wire theft in progress late Tuesday near a ...

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Tacoma is going to have a dark winter if criminals keep turning off the lights. In the last several months, they’ve been smashing, snipping and yanking the guts out of the city’s street-light ...

In a massive downtown raid, members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Heavy Metal Task Force arrested 82 people and seized 2,000 pounds of stolen copper wire, city leaders announced Tuesday.

Statewide requirements to help prevent copper wire theft will become law on Jan. 1 despite a lawsuit by the scrap metal workers claiming the legislation will effectively shut down their industry. The ...

Los Angeles has rejected an entrepreneur’s cheap and simple fix to stop the city’s crippling copper wire theft crisis. End ...

Copper thieves are going to great lengths to get their hands on the profitable metal. Surveillance video from March shows ...