Police launch two-day blitz on metals theft

As prices for metals have risen throughout the world "metal theft" has become increasingly common. In the UK, police have launched an initiative to tackle the problem."Police have launched a nationwide blitz on the theft of metal, a fast-growing crime fuelled by rising prices...

Copper theft may be behind manhole death

This story from Calgary.  Rising cost of copper is resulting in widespread theft of the commodity from electrical and other installations.  Police think the man whose body was found in a Calgary manhole may have been electrocuted while trying to steal...

Manhole covers vanish in the night

"They strike in the dead of night and at dawn the population rises to a sinister peril. London has joined the select band of world cities cursed by the mysterious phenomenon of manhole cover theft. The target has been Newham, east London, where in recent weeks nearly 200...

Steaming manhole triggers evacuation

"As many as 20 homes along a street in Burnaby were evacuated as the RCMP investigated a suspected drug lab in the Vancouver suburb. The lab was discovered on Thursday in a home, where one man was arrested, after residents of the 7900 block of Nelson Street saw steam rising...

WTC remains search expands after debris from towers is found

NEW YORK (AP) — The search for the lost remains of World Trade Center victims is expanding again, after the unexpected discovery of debris from the towers in some underground landfill that was paved over long ago. And hours after city officials said they were widening...

More bones found at trade center site (AP)

" NEW YORK - Seven more pieces of remains were found Thursday in the same manhole at ground zero where the discovery of bones prompted a renewed search for Sept. 11 victims. In all, 210 body parts — ranging from small fragments to full arm and leg bones — have been...

Remains from WTC site found in manhole (AP)

" NEW YORK - Human remains that appear to be from World Trade Center victims were found by utility workers in a manhole at the northern edge of the site, a Port Authority official said Thursday. A Consolidated Edison crew doing excavation of the manhole at street level found...

An Immigrant Underground

"Armando Reyes climbed over the border fence and prepared for the dash into San Diego. But his smuggler instead led him and four other migrants through a patch of reeds to a stinky drainage pipe, and ordered them inside. "