Red, white, and blue barber poles look patriotic, but there's a blood-soaked meaning behind their design. Those rotating red, white, and blue poles outside barbershops have become an icon. At first ...

Ohio is home to countless museums dedicated to art, local and national history, U.S. presidents, railroads, planes, trains, automobiles — you name it, chances are there’s a museum for it. But many ...

SEATTLE — An item that can fetch a lot of money in pawn shopshas become the object of a series of thefts in Seattle. No, it’s not laptops, iPods or stereos. It’s barber poles. Three barber shops in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For years, spinning red, white and blue poles could always be spotted outside neighborhood barbershops. But in the city of Thornton, the poles may soon be ...

(CBS/AP) FRANKFORT, Ky. - Seems every time you turn around someone's taking a poll these days. In central Kentucky, thieves even took a couple of barber poles. The most recent pole was taken Wednesday ...

Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces inside its glass ...

SEATTLE - An item that can fetch a lot of money in pawnshops has become the object of a series of thefts in Seattle. No, it's not laptops, iPods or stereos. It's barber poles. Three barber shops in ...

An item that can fetch a lot of money in pawn shops has become the object of a series of thefts in Seattle. No, it’s not laptops, iPods or stereos. It’s barber poles. Three barber shops in Ballard and ...

"People will steal anything that's not bolted down." It's one of those things people sometimes say. Steven Mayer can be reached at 661-395-7353. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter: @semayerTBC.