Rising demand for scrap bronze has turned cemetery memorials into lucrative targets for thieves. Here's why the crime is spreading — and what families can do to protect themselves financially.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) said its investigators, with help from the Scott ...

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office reports that about 70 bronze vases were stolen at East Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial ...

Something disturbing keeps happening at Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego: people are stealing bronze vases meant to hold flowers on the gravesites of veterans. According to Juan Cervantes, general ...

The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) said its investigators, with help from the Scott County Sheriff's Office, ...

NEWHALL (CBS) — Bronze vases have been stolen off the graves of an estimated 100 war veterans at a Santa Clarita-area cemetery that has been plagued by such thefts since last year. The vases, which ...

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) is seeking tips after multiple bronze vases were reported stolen from East Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Kingsport.

THE DAILY PIC (#1804): This bronze vessel was made in Pharsalos, Thessaly—now Farsala in Greece—in about 370 BCE. It’s now in the show called “A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC – 200 AD” at ...

REDSTONE TOWNSHIP (KDKA) -- Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayette County has literally thousands of bronze vases adorning the headstones. But that number drops each day as the vases disappear at the ...

Stephanie Greve went to decorate her parents' grave at a Papillion cemetery on Sunday, but those plans quickly changed when she realized someone had stolen two bronze vases from the site. Stephanie ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last week, cemetery owner Patrick Miller had to break tough news to the ...