CHARLESTON, W. VA. — Grave robbers, a curse of burial grounds for centuries, are back for new valuables: metal ornaments that can be melted down for quick cash as copper and other metal prices climb.

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — Grave robbers, a curse of burial grounds for centuries, are back for new valuables: metal ornaments that can be melted down for quick cash as copper and other metal prices climb.

MONEE TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WLS) -- The Will County Sheriff's Office said they arrested a man allegedly caught stealing from a cemetery. The sheriff's office said officers were called to Skyline Memorial ...

RAYTOWN, Mo. -- Investigators in western Missouri are calling on scrap metal dealers hoping to find thieves who have stolen hundreds of bronze vases from a cemetery. The staff at the 65-acre Mount ...

BETHALTO, Ill. — The Bethalto Police Department is searching for a suspect or suspects who stole from a local cemetery. Officers were called to the Rose Lawn Memory Gardens on Tuesday, where someone ...

There's a new hot commodity for thieves: copper. They're sneaking onto job sites and breaking into buildings to strip them of copper pipes and wire to sell for scrap. It's all because the price of the ...