A 43-year-old man suspected of stealing more than 300 pounds of copper wire from underground electrical pull boxes in Santa Monica has been taken into custody, police announced Friday. Officers ...

A school in Vallejo is left without power after copper wire was stolen from the building, shutting down operations.

Classes were canceled until further notice; repairs are expected to take about a week, according to a district statement ... The problem of copper wire theft has surged across California.

A Camp Taylor mom who works from home said she lost internet service for five days because of a copper wire theft in her neighborhood ... T spokesperson said in a statement.

Arrests were made in reported copper wire thefts that impacted power for Harry Reid International Airport and a Las Vegas Strip property.

The theft that caused the outage ... This isn’t the first time copper wire was stolen from a Vallejo school, the district said in its statement. “We are deeply saddened and frustrated ...