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Citizens in a residential area of San Francisco are bolstering their homes with chicken wire in a bid to keep out intruders. Happening in the city's Richmond District, the safety measures come amid a recent jump in burglaries, robberies, and homicides in the affluent neighborhood. Headline-grabbing incidents like thieves making off with a Bank of America ATM earlier this year have even longtime residents on edge - with some installing cameras and safety locks along with the unconventional farm equipment. Several have attended community meetings and made posts on social media as the rampant crime wave persists. In interviews with...

CALGARY — Calgary police are looking for a group of car prowlers who desecrated the ashes of a 19-year-old crash victim. Among several cars hit during a break-in spree on Aug. 2., was a white truck, where the thieves found a green velvet pouch containing the ashes of a 19-year-old woman killed in a crash four years ago, and a green jacket that once belonged to her, police said. The heartless criminals dumped the ashes, and tossed the pouch on the ground and made off with the jacket among their ill-gotten gains. Police say some ashes were recovered, but rain...

We arrived in Oak Harbor today and I wasn't disappointed in what I have been hearing. They have been flying low over my daughter's house on Oak Harbor. They are the Prowlers, and it is the awesome sound of freedom It is almost 11 pm and I just heard another. When they fly low enough to almost split your eardrums, it gives you a small sense of what the enemy must feel and hear when American firepower is bearing down on them. May they pee their pants in fear. I'll be here until Tuesday and would love to join some...