Vandalism

The following items were taken from Naperville and Lisle police reports. Naperville •A homeowner in the 400 block of Redstart Lane happened upon a male teenager who had been going through a refrigerator in the open garage May 16. Police said...

Nine gravestones at a local veterans cemetery were vandalized, and cleaning them in time for Memorial Day is proving a challenge, town officials said Tuesday. Phrases were scrawled onto the curved tops of the stones in Hillstown Veterans Cemetery off...

Police are asking for the public's help in finding the people who vandalized a church in Chicago's East Side neighborhood. A deacon opening the International Harbor of Grace Church for a morning service on Saturday found pews uprooted, an antique...

Several cars and a vacant home were vandalized in Ashley Farm Development in Dover Township, according to Northern York County Regional Police. It appears that the properties' windows were broken by someone throwing large stones and/or using a pellet...

Springfield, Mo. -- The air conditioning units belonging to a small congregation on the city's northside were stripped for copper in March.  Two months later, Springfield Police said there are no leads, and they are no longer investigating the case.   ...

Jeremy Field had a simple message for the vandals behind the crude, anti-religious slogans that were plastered overnight across the Park Forest Baptist Church. "God loves you, and we forgive you," said Field, who toiled Thursday scrubbing spray paint...

Park Forest Baptist Church in Patton Township was vandalized Wednesday night with anti-religious slogans spray-painted on the church, and a church bus also was extensively damaged, Patton Township police said. The church, at 3030 Carnegie Drive, was...

Students are very resilient and adapt easily to change, Kathy Moser believes. Moser, principal of Farmdale Elementary School in Merced, said her students have demonstrated patience and understanding since a March 26 fire blamed on vandalism...

Effingham police are investigating a vandalism spree that left nine vehicles with broken windows over the past few days. Police reported that seven of the nine vehicles were in the neighborhood west and south of the Effingham Equity complex on Temple...

Vandals spray-painted a church and bank in Emmaus earlier this month, police said. A window and door at St. John's Lutheran Church, 5th and Chestnut streets, was spray-painted late at night on May 4 or early in the morning on May 5, according to borough...

There are no suspects in a series of vandalism reports late Thursday night and early Friday morning, said Capt. Dave McNeil of the Aberdeen Police Department.  More than 20 vehicles, the common area of an apartment building, a few road signs and a...

Chris Tellez sat in class, his stomach grinding. The 15-year-old felt fine in his first class two weeks ago at Animo Locke Charter High School 2 in Watts, but by second period he could wait no longer. "I had to use the restroom," he said. "But the...