MIDLAND, Texas — A man has been arrested after allegedly pushing through ConocoPhillips gates and loading copper wiring into his jeep on Aug. 28. According to an affidavit, the Midland County ...

Often strung from utility poles or buried beneath our feet, copper wire has played a critical role in powering America’s electrical grid for more than a century. But brazen thefts are threatening the ...

As copper wire theft continues to surge across Los Angeles County, detectives say shutting down the black market is critical. 7 On Your Side is digging into where that stolen copper actually goes and ...

There’s a stretch of Interstate 84 in Portland, near where it connects to Interstate 205, that for weeks last year was unnervingly dark at night. The reason: many of the streetlights weren’t working.

Police on Monday arrested two people and cited another for allegedly masterminding a copper-wire theft operation that wreaked thousands of dollars in damage on telecommunications lines in Portland.