Vandalism Burns Up Preston History Buff: Spray Paint Mars Historic Iron Furnace
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By Kathy Plum, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Sep. 14--ALBRIGHT -- After more than a century and a half, the Virginia Iron Furnace still stands as sturdy as the pyramids of Eygpt, marred only by the red paint of vandals who felt inspired to add their names to its history.
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Montgomery County firefighters responded to Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring this morning after a construction worker found what he thought might be the remains of a pipe bomb but instead it turned out to be an item known as an improvised launching device.
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Recent moves across the South, but even in the capital, seek to modify statues and plaques for historical figures to reflect racist past.
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Global positioning systems (GPS),  digital photography and computer databases are joining the  humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti  and catch its shadowy perpetrators.
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LOS ANGELES -- After months of studying rocks and searching for water, the Mars rover Opportunity is taking a look at some of the junk it left behind during its fiery descent last January.
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A man threw a bucket of red paint or dye into Rome's Trevi Fountain on Friday, coloring the waters of the 18th century monument bright red in front of a crowd of astonished tourists and locals, witnesses said.
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By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 20--A back draft from a wood-fired boiler caused dust to ignite early Monday at the Vic Firth Manufacturing Corp. plant in Newport.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Layers on Mars are yielding history lessons revealed by instruments flying overhead and rolling across the surface.
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A town in Sweden this Christmas hopes to win its battle with vandals who almost every year for the past four decades have foiled security measures to burn down the town's giant Yuletide straw ram.
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A German pensioner has been arrested for vandalism after being caught spraying the word &quot;Puff&quot; (whorehouse) on houses in the Bavarian town of Hof, near the Czech border, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Taking the vandal by the horns and public shaming him.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A man's vehicle was vandalized and his father's ashes were dumped in his front lawn, authorities said.  Wayne C. Carraway, 35, said he believed a robber broke into his 1987 Ford Bronco and thought a cedar box with a plastic bag full of his father's ashes contained drugs.
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A German pensioner has been arrested for  vandalism after being caught spraying the word &quot;Puff&quot;  (whorehouse) on houses in the Bavarian town of Hof, near the  Czech border, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.
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A promotion for the tools blog Toolmonger.com gives an audience a chance to watch a shack get hacked to pieces.
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The Associated Press  MECHANICSVILLE  Fire struck the Richmond Times-Dispatch printing plant in Hanover County on Saturday as today's edition was being printed.  The fire started shortly after noon, apparently in a folder on one of the newspaper's three presses.
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Vandals have poured red paint over two cars belonging to a director of Manchester United. Greater Manchester Police said the attack happened on Monday night at the home of Maurice Watkins, 61, on Mauldeth Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.