"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.

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 ...

STAMFORD -- In the 1950s, you could probably find a spinning barber pole in every downtown across the country. The red- white-and-blue poles represent a time when everyone knew their neighborhood ...

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 ...

Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

Cover Story New wave of barbershops brings back golden age of men's grooming with old-style shaves, haircuts - plus a few twists Barber James Lizotte is giving a shave today - and he's going back to ...

UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- There's a classic cut of history at one barber shop in Manhattan. The NYC Barbershop Museum, located on the Upper West Side, is home to an array of colorful ...

Barbers and beauticians are splitting hairs over an iconic image: the swirling red, white and blue striped pole that often stands outside a barber shop. Barbers in several states are proposing ...