Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León speaks while holding copper wire at a news conference. (Michael Blackshire / Los ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Though improvements are being made, City officials say Bakersfield continues to spend thousands on infrastructure repairs and maintenance due to ongoing copper wire theft.

WELL, A SURGE IN COPPER WIRE THEFTS IS TURNING NEIGHBORHOODS INTO CRIME SCENES. GOOD EVENING. I’M BRYA BERRY AND I’M LARA MORITZ. AT&T IS OFFERING A $20,000 REWARD FOR HELP IN FINDING THESE SUSPECTS.

A person holds a handful of recycled copper reclaimed from scrap wire at C&D Scrap Metal in Houston. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer It doesn’t take a lot of guesswork for Daniel Jackson to figure ...

Often strung from utility poles or buried beneath our feet, copper wire has played a critical role in powering America’s electrical grid for more than a century. But brazen thefts are threatening the ...