although St. Joseph County police have responded to a half dozen cases of farm field thefts since Feb. 1. Sources say the thefts involve the removal of copper and steel electrical wiring from ...

Copper wire thievery is certainly not unique to this region, nor is it a new phenomenon. A decade ago, when street lights throughout Fresno started to go dark, the city encased in concrete 24,000 ...

Power was knocked out for about 1,000 homes and businesses in a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Thursday after police said a man tried to steal copper wire from a transformer box owned by PECO ...

These generate very strong local electric fields, thereby producing highly ... The method is successful owing to cathodes ...

This is the second time this week police said someone was nearly electrocuted while trying to steal copper wire. An electrical shock in the first incident was so intense that it burned a man's ...

Police said a man -- in his 40s or 50s -- cut the lock off a PECO electric box in an attempt to steal some copper wire inside. When the man cut into a high-voltage cable, police said it caused a ...