A camera caught this image of a person stealing wire from a Kinetic line in Perry County in October. Such thefts have gone up in Kentucky by thieves seeking copper to sell. Photo courtesy of Kinetic.

Thieves are increasingly targeting the copper wires that keep America’s power grids and phone networks running.

A person holds a handful of recycled copper reclaimed from scrap wire at C&D Scrap Metal in Houston. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer It doesn’t take a lot of guesswork for Daniel Jackson to figure ...

A crew of copper thieves was caught in the act early Tuesday morning as they tried to take an estimated $50,000 worth of wire in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, police said. A caller ...

Court documents show two separate incidents in the east metro have resulted in the arrests of seven people for their alleged roles in the theft of copper wire across the city of St. Paul, which has ...