In what became one of the largest thefts in the history of Washington state, two men were charged in 2013with stealing more than four miles of copper wire from the underside of an elevated train line ...

I keep coming back to the same jarring image: rows of almost spotless Airbus jets, some barely out of the factory, being stripped for parts like old cars in a breaker’s yard. On the surface it looks ...

Some Milwaukeeans are trying to eke out a living collecting and selling scrap metal. Milwaukee’s economy is improving slowly, but it’s still one of the poorest cities in the country. With unemployment ...