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Vandalism
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Proposal seeks to punish taggers’ parents
California | Local |
August 12, 2008
Buoyed by the success of a six-month program to reduce graffiti in Pico Rivera and unincorporated Whittier, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina will ask her colleagues today to approve a measure that would allow authorities to hold taggers – and their parents – liable for civil damages. Read more
Sticky fingers target cactuses in Palm Desert to resell for barrels of money
California | Local |
August 12, 2008
Someone is swiping the cactuses in this upscale desert city. Read more
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Alleged tagger arrested at school
California | Local |
July 24, 2008
A 17-year-old accused tagger was arrested today at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles on suspicion of prolific graffiti vandalism aboard MTA buses and trains and at stations across the region, sheriff’s officials said. Read more
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Daredevil taggers make news but injuries are rare, Southern California authorities say
California | Local |
June 24, 2008
How hazardous is the daredevil tagging that takes place on local freeways? Read more
Friday, May 30, 2008
Man believed to be graffiti tagger in YouTube video is charged
California | Local |
May 30, 2008
A man described as one of Los Angeles’ most prolific taggers, whose daredevil antics were featured on YouTube, was charged today with 32 counts of felony vandalism. Read more
Sunday, February 17, 2008
NOT ON HIS WATCH
Real Estate |
February 17, 2008
AFTER gang members turned an empty house in Pomona into their party hangout, the agent representing the foreclosure property gave them the personal heave-ho by simply moving in. Read more
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
700 L.A. streetlights out due to copper wire thefts
California | Local |
December 5, 2007
Thieves have disabled about 700 streetlights in Los Angeles,
making off with 370,000 feet of valuable copper wiring over the last
four months. Read more
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
The trees died for his Sin City view
National |
December 4, 2007
Cloaked by darkness, a saw tucked under his jacket, Douglas
Hoffman skulked through suburbia, methodically killing trees. Read more
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
California in Brief / FULLERTON - Vandalism probed as hate crime
California | Local |
November 28, 2007
Police are investigating the vandalism of a church as a potential
hate crime. Read more
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Nation in Brief / FLORIDA - Nuclear plant damage unsolved
National |
November 13, 2007
A tiny hole in a pipe at a nuclear power plant led to a big
investigation over sabotage fears, but authorities have closed the
case as an unsolved act of vandalism, the FBI said. Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Animal rights group says it flooded home
California | Local |
October 30, 2007
An animal rights group has claimed responsibility for flooding the
Westside home of a UCLA professor who uses lab monkeys in research on
nicotine addiction. Read more
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Nation in Brief / NEW YORK - Graffiti defaces Lincoln site
National |
October 20, 2007
Swastikas and a racial epithet were spray-painted on a historic
train depot where Abraham Lincoln once spoke. Read more
Sunday, October 14, 2007
World in Brief | MEXICO - Protesters egg, topple Fox statue
World |
October 14, 2007
Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of
former Mexican President Vicente Fox just hours after it was erected. Read more
UKRAINE
World |
October 14, 2007
Apartment gas explosion kills at least 9
A powerful natural-gas explosion ripped through an apartment building in eastern Ukraine, killing at least nine people and damaging other buildings, an emergency official said. Read more
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
QUICK TAKES - Art kisser defends her ‘act of love’
Entertainment |
October 10, 2007
A woman who planted a lipstick-laden kiss on an all-white painting
by the American artist Cy Twombly went on trial Tuesday, telling the
court in Avignon, France, that she had committed an “act of love” –
not a crime. Read more
Monday, October 8, 2007
Vandals in Paris punch hole in Monet painting
Entertainment |
October 8, 2007
PARIS – Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and
punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude
Monet, the French culture minister said. Read more
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Taggers spray, parents pay
California | Local |
September 29, 2007
Frustrated by the rising toll of graffiti, Los Angeles officials
are vowing a new campaign to make the parents of teenage taggers more
accountable for the vandalism. Read more
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Video shows man vandalizing Crystal Cathedral
California | Local |
September 26, 2007
Church officials Tuesday released video footage showing an alleged
vandal whose etchings over the weekend caused nearly $40,000 damage
to Garden Grove’s Crystal Cathedral. Read more
Friday, September 14, 2007
3 wells damaged by copper thieves
California | Local |
September 14, 2007
Thieves stole copper tubing from wells serving Muscoy in San
Bernardino County on Wednesday night, shutting down three of the five
and prompting water company officials to ask residents to conserve water. Read more
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Vandals break into home, leave Manson-like messages on walls
California | Local |
August 22, 2007
Police are searching for vandals who broke into an unoccupied Palm
Springs vacation home last week, unnerving neighbors by marking the
walls with “Helter Skelter,” “Pigz” and “Blood,” reminiscent of the
scenes found in the grisly Los Angeles slayings orchestrated by cult
leader Charles Manson in August 1969. Read more
