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Arrest cans prolific graffiti tagger Omaha World-Herald By Jason Kuiper With the arrest of a 21-year-old man, Omaha police say they have caught the city's most prolific graffiti tagger. The suspect was arrested ... |
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Worker scares away vandals, cleans graffiti from neighboring business Fort Scott Tribune By Michael Pommier - Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- One downtown business was looking out for another when vandals attempted to deface a local ... |
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Cassia County tags new war on graffiti Twin Falls Times-News BURLEY Thousands of dollars of graffiti damage in Burley has prompted law enforcement officials to form a task force to fight the destruction. ... |
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Gallery for graffiti artists opens in Cardiff BBC News A dedicated graffiti and street art gallery is opening, allowing creators to display and sell their work. The Boiler House in Cardiff will also stage ... |
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Graffiti artists see the light Montreal Gazette By MICHELLE ANNE OLSEN, FreelanceFebruary 27, 2010 5:08 AM It's hard to ignore Montreal's graffiti problem, as evidence is spray-painted everywhere you look ... |
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Last of graffiti removed from Counterbalance Park Queen Anne View (blog) Yesterday, Saturday, February 27, Parks and Recreation crews removed the last of the graffiti sprawled over the concrete walls at Counterbalance Park almost ... |
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Soup giant vs. a hip-hop holdout | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/28/2010 Philadelphia Inquirer The massive two-story structure, whose yellowed bricks and columns have been a popular target of graffiti artists, sits alone just past the Benjamin ... |
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Police blotter 2/28 Southtown Star GRAFFITI Black graffiti was painted on the side of a house in the 1300 block of Peggy Lane between Feb. 11 and 18. BURGLARY A water meter and copper pipes ... |
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Scouts wipe out Dallas graffiti WFAA Boy Scout Matthew Lloyd and Troop 914 teamed up with the Ferguson Road Initiative and city code compliance officials to organize Saturday's "graffiti ... |
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Vandals spray paint 20 Valrico homes overnight Tampa Tribune AP TAMPA - Hillsborough County deputies are investigating a rash of spray-painted graffiti on about 20 houses in the Valrico area. ... |
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3 men suspected of numerous graffiti tags in Omaha KCAU (AP) - Authorities say three Omaha men are responsible for more than 50 instances of graffiti tagging in the city. Omaha police identified them as ... |
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Vandals spraypaint about 20 Valrico homes overnight Tampabay.com The wave of graffiti seemed to have hit random houses in three subdivisions: Dominion, the Hammocks and Lakes of Valrico, Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie ... |
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Tribe concerned about cultural site vandalism KLEW Some of the graffiti at the historical pictograph site at Hells Gate State Park. (Courtesy: Nez Perce Tribe) By Stephanie Smith LEWISTON - Nez Perce County ... |
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Crimestoppers offering reward for graffiti vandals WTOC By Lynda Figueredo - bio | email SAVANNAH, GA - Crimestoppers is hoping to catch whoever is responsible for a rash of graffiti found on buildings in ... |
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Graffiti vandals hit Brandon neighborhoods 10 Connects Brandon, Florida - Some people living in Brandon are on edge after vandals swept through several neighborhoods under the cover of darkness Saturday night or ... |
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Vandals Scrawl Graffiti On Historic School WGCL Atlanta By Mike Paluska, CBS Atlanta Reporter DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. -- Beulah Grove Lodge 372 has stood the test of time. Built circa 1881 by freed African American ... |
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Former Pompton Lakes resident charged for graffiti art NorthJersey.com To law enforcement, he was a graffiti pest who rang up costly repair bills for the State of New Jersey and a number of municipalities and businesses by ... |
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Anti-Gay Hate Graffiti Found At UC Davis CBS13.com For the second time in just a few days, graffiti found on the UC Davis campus is being investigated as a hate crime, according to officials. ... |
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Council looks to curb graffiti Bethany Beach Wave By Greg Latshaw Staff Writer March 1, 2010 SALISBURY -- Legislation geared at addressing graffiti vandalism in Wicomico County is expected to be ... |
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Offensive Sussex graffiti vandal sought BBC News A vandal has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by spray painting more than 50 "offensive" images of male genitals in Sussex. ... |
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Vandals hit Hillsborough neighborhoods MiamiHerald.com Authorities in Hillsborough County are searching for vandals who painted graffiti on more than 20 homes over the weekend. Sheriff's office spokeswoman ... |
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Harpersfield needs help after graffiti defaces park areas Ashtabula Star-Beacon The bad news kept coming: It would take hours of labor and elbow grease to scrub off and paint over the graffiti and there is no money in the Ashtabula ... |
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Graffiti in Lakeside Park gully/Ryn Gargulinski Tucson Citizen That attention is not always welcome, however, especially from the lecherous types who insist on staring at a woman's chest rather than looking her in the ... |
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Ask a Graffiti Artist New York Times (blog) In late 1975, Lee was asked to join the Fabulous Five, an elite quintet of seemingly mythic graffiti writers. The Fabulous Five's greatest feat the only ... |
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Scores of graffiti incidents reported in eastern Hillsborough Tampa Tribune TAMPA - Reports of spray-painted graffiti on homes in eastern Hillsborough County poured in Sunday. Sheriff's deputies say they are aware of 115 incidents ... |
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Meeting To Address UCD Hate Graffiti KCRA Sacramento A meeting is planned tonight at University of California, Davis, after hate graffiti targeting gays and lesbians was found last week. ... |
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Downtown graffiti under investigation Arkcity.net The incidents are part of an ongoing, sporadic problem with graffiti in the city, police said. They could be just the work of individual vandals with spray ... |
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Novato teens arrested for spraying graffiti on VFW building Marin Independent-Journal Two Novato teenagers were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing the Veterans of Foreign Wars building at 844 Sweetser Ave. in Novato, police said. ... |
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Deputies: 4 sought in graffiti investigation Tampa Tribune Lisa Perry cleans off graffiti from the garage door of her Valrico Lakes home Monday morning. By CHIP OSOWSKI | News Channel 8 VALRICO - Deputies ... |
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Vandal forced to clean up own graffiti Cambridge News A TEENAGER who sprayed bus stops, garages and walls with graffiti will have to face one of his victims under a new justice scheme. ... |
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Removing graffiti and litter to fight crime KING5.com by LINDA BRILL / KING 5 News SEATTLE - The six graffiti rangers cover the City of Seattle cleaning up neighborhood by neighborhood. ... |
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New Law Against Graffiti? WMDT by - Innae Park The city has never had a specific law that addresses graffiti. Until now, it's been considered a violation of external property. ... |
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Offensive Graffiti Found At UC Santa Cruz KIONrightnow.com Santa Cruz, Calif-- On Monday, officials at UC Santa Cruz said they removed offensive graffiti from a bathroom door in the Earth and Marine Sciences ... |
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Graffiti crime up KLEW Some of the graffiti that recently showed up in Lewiston. (Photo provided by Lewiston Police.) By Anne Harding LEWISTON - Several areas in downtown Lewiston ... |
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Wiping out graffiti? Here's an app for that USA Today GRIP Systems, an $850-a-year subscription program for cities, allows residents to send in photos of graffiti from cellphones, or use their computers to ... |
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UCD Hate Graffiti Discussed At Meeting KCRA Sacramento The graffiti remained on Monday, but some students have also posted signs showing support for those victimized. The graffiti appeared Friday night. ... |
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Former gang member helps clean up graffiti he once painted The Tennessean Ridge's group plans to help property owners by painting over graffiti and returning some order to the walls. "Customers see a building and they say 'This is ... |
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RACIST graffiti has been scrawled onto a church. Rutland and Stamford Mercury Police are appealing for information after graffiti was painted onto the walls and window sills of Barn Hill Methodist Church in Stamford. ... |
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3 arrested in Valrico graffiti binge Tampa Tribune Deputies said the suspects told them they had sprayed the graffiti because "they wanted to get on the news." The graffiti included expletives, racial slurs ... |
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Thandie Newton: Banksy Graffiti Girl Just Jared (blog) The 37-year-old Mission Impossible II actress watched Banksy's sold-out documentary about the controversial graffiti artist and his relationship with a ... |
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Bail set for man charged in graffiti incidents Tampa Tribune By CHIP OSOWSKI | News Channel 8 TAMPA - A 21-year-old man accused of a rash of graffiti attacks in eastern Hillsborough County was ordered held on $21750 ... |
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Noose scribbled on bathroom door at UC Santa Cruz San Jose Mercury News The graffiti was discovered Monday in the school's Earth and Marine Sciences building. School spokesman Jim Burns says the words "San Diego" and "lynch" ... |
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Lebanon man charged in graffiti incident PennLive.com The graffiti is on the upper level of the ABC Business Accounting Solutions building. Herman was previously one of two men charged with committing a Feb. ... |
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Ann Arbor police investigate graffiti at Pittsfield Elementary School AnnArbor.com The graffiti wasn't visible from the road. The vandals used black and white spray paint, police said. Anyone with information can call the department's ... |
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Tampa Tribune Sandi Kirk cleans graffiti from her garage door, one of the nearly 100 cases of vandalism reported in eastern Hillsborough County. ... |
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Breaking News: Man arrested for spraying graffiti on Lebanon landmark Lebanon Daily News A 26-year-old Lebanon man has been arrested for painting graffiti on the former Lebanon National Bank building last month. Ryan Herman is facing felony ... |
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Graffiti found on Annapolis church Baltimore Sun By Andrea F. Siegel Baltimore Sun reporter An Episcopal rector found graffiti spray-painted on his Annapolis church Monday afternoon, police said. The Rev. ... |
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Nurse arrested in graffiti case at mission OCRegister A 52-year-old nurse was arrested following complaints of graffiti on the Mission San Juan Capistrano grounds. Unhoi Moon was jailed with bail set at $20000. ... |
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A Game of Tag Breaks Out Between London's Graffiti Elite Wall Street Journal Robbo, one of the lost pioneers of London's 1980s graffiti scene, was emerging from a long retirement. He had a mission: to settle a score with the ... |
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WICOMICO NEWS: County considers graffiti law Bethany Beach Wave SALISBURY With no law on the books to address graffiti vandalism in Wicomico County, the council is considering new legislation that would set up fines ... |
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City police arrest graffiti artist Lebanon Daily News By LES STEWART Lebanon police have charged a 26-year-old man with painting graffiti on a downtown landmark. Ryan Herman of North Cherry Street, Lebanon, ... |
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Wicomico council paints graffiti law as too harsh on homeowners Bethany Beach Wave By Greg Latshaw Staff Writer March 3, 2010 SALISBURY -- With no law on the books to address graffiti vandalism in Wicomico County, the council is ... |
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As You See It: March 3, 2010 Santa Cruz Sentinel It's troubling that the article about the UC Santa Cruz graffiti conflates the student protests against fee hikes with a vulgar and repugnant act of racism. ... |
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Prolific graffiti vandals wanted "to get on the news" Sun-Sentinel Graffiti, including an expletive, was left on garage doors. Other graffiti included racial slurs and a swastika. A car was spray-painted. ... |
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Three juveniles arrested for graffiti in Homewood WBRC Police say the three juveniles, ages 14 to 18, were responsible for graffiti on six businesses and Homewood High School. Graffiti on buildings and other ... |
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Threat painted on King suspect's parents' home San Diego Union Tribune By Karen Kucher, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Police on Wednesday were investigating graffiti left at the Rancho Bernardo home of the mother and stepfather of ... |
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Graffiti Man 'Choke' Arrested WRTV Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- A prolific graffiti artist who police said left his mark on hundreds of buildings in Indianapolis and in five other states was taken into ... |
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Answers From a Graffiti Artist New York Times (blog) Since it appears you have profited as a result of your graffiti art, have you made any effort to pay restitution to the city or other property owners of ... |
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UCSC concerned about sketch of noose KGO-TV Campus officials found the graffiti, which depicts a noose with the words "San Diego" and "lynch" written next to it, on the door of a bathroom in the ... |
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City program aims to clean up graffiti Gillette News Record By KAYLA MATZKE, News-Record Writer kmatzke@gillettenewsrecord.net Graffiti in Gillette is on the rise and the city has a new program to tackle it. ... |
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Graffiti tagger at it again? Fox 59 Miguel Villanueva was first arrested late last year and faced at least 9 different graffiti-related charges, but after skipping out on a court date, ... |
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Staunton Business Owners React to Graffiti Arrests WHSV Walls that were once splashed with graffiti are now covered with fresh paint at End Keepers Extras in Staunton. However, it took a day of work and hundreds ... |
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More Hate Graffiti Turns Up At UC Davis KCRA Sacramento Graffiti of three swastikas, which appear to be made with spray paint, were found around the UC Davis campus Wednesday, campus police said. ... |
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No tolerance for graffiti San Antonio Express By Joni Simon - Contributing Writer/Northwest Weekly Graffiti persists in Leon Valley, but City Manager Lanny Lambert told City Council on March 1 that he ... |
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Provo police arrest a man charged with graffiti ABC 4 PROVO, Utah (ABC 4 News)- A traffic stop in Provo led to the arrest of a man police believe was leaving graffiti throughout the city. ... |
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Quincy may create reward to stop graffiti The Wenatchee World Online ... QUINCY The Quincy City Council wants to continue remodel work on the community's aging senior center and create a reward to catch graffiti taggers. ... |
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Hate Graffiti Stirs Concern Daily Nexus According to UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza, the graffiti was cleaned up yesterday by police. Yesterday's crimes are being investigated as acts of ... |
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Delhi teen arrested for graffiti Merced Sun-Star A Delhi teen was arrested Tuesday in connection to several instances of graffiti, a week after he was arrested for spray painting a park bench. ... |
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Graffiti suspect nabbed in high-speed chase News Virginian The pursuit started when Candace Jones, investigator, with the Augusta County Sheriff's Office stopped Nargi as part of an investigation into graffiti in ... |
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Answers From a Graffiti Artist, Part 2 New York Times (blog) RIP With the growing popularity of street art whether wheatpastes, figure-based painting or site-specific sculpture do you think graffiti's time has ... |
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Traffic stop leads Provo police to graffiti suspect KSL-TV By Shara Park PROVO -- After weeks of dealing with graffiti popping up all over central Provo, police finally tracked down the person behind the paint. ... |
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Swastikas hit Davis while Irvine protesters back hecklers Jweekly.com The graffiti was quickly cleaned up. A day earlier at UC Irvine, hundreds of protesters converged on the administration building in support of 11 students ... |
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Want your truck painted "Transformer Green"? San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Do you own a commercial truck that's been covered in graffiti? Mayor Gavin Newsom has a new program for you. The first 15 applicants can get their trucks ... |
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Wapato Combats Graffiti Epidemic. KIMA CBS 29 By Ryan Simms When it comes to graffiti, Berta Garza doesn't back down. All too often, she's ordering paint to combat a giant problem. ... |
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Police tally of graffiti damage grows Helena Independent Record By ANGELA BRANDT Independent Record | Posted: Friday, March 5, 2010 12:00 am | (0) Comments Vandals did in excess of $4000 worth of damage during a graffiti ... |
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UC Santa Cruz students shut down campus San Jose Mercury News By Megha Satyanarayana Students at UC Santa Cruz held a daylong strike Thursday, shutting off access to campus at multiple points and clashing with ... |
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Graffiti cleaned for free? Wicked Local Plymouth By Emily Wilcox Some out-of-town property owners don't seem to care about cleaning up unsightly graffiti on their buildings. But it disfigures the community ... |
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The Writing on the Wall Daily Cardinal By Stephanie Lindholm Graffiti. Is it art or vandalism? The difference of opinion can be as close as two coats of paint, literally. ... |
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Police probe anti-native graffiti Victoria Times Colonist "A number of people are getting frustrated, but I was really disappointed about the graffiti," he said. "Every society has the odd idiot in it, ... |
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Police hit back at graffiti artists Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph By Catherine Collins East Northamptonshire's new police inspector, Vaughn Clarke, has vowed to continue the strong stance he took against graffiti during ... |
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Graffiti reported on residence The Reporter On Monday, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections contacted the Fond du Lac Police Department about graffiti on a home at 457 Thomas St. Julian E. Smith, ... |
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Hip-Hop/Graffiti Documentary 'Style Wars' Needs Your Help Prefixmag The classic hip-hop and graffiti documentary Style Wars was shot by filmmakers Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant back in 1983, and continues to be a cult ... |
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Graffiti artists have been warned they are facing a crackdown by
police in ... Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph East Northamptonshire's new police inspector, Vaughn Clarke, has vowed to continue the strong stance he took against graffiti during his time working in ... |
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Mexican official fired for painting teen's bottom The Associated Press ... mayor in central Mexico says he has fired one of his town officials for spray-painting the buttocks of a teenage boy as punishment for graffiti tagging. ... |
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Chi-Town GA Promote, Imprison Graffiti Artists The Right Perspective (blog) The leader of the Guardian Angels' Chicago franchise leads a double life, railing against graffiti artists and possibly violating their civil liberties as a ... |
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Inked Out: Physical Graffiti Tattoo, Linden, NJ Aquarian Weekly This time I was going to visit Paul Nolin's tattoo shop, Physical Graffiti Tattoo. Physical Graffiti, which has been in the same spot since 1993, ... |
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Halalt smacked with racist graffiti BCLocalNews We don't know who did it, Halalt Councillor Tyler George said of graffiti on the band's H'ulh-etun Health Centre building. We're well aware of this kind ... |
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Sheriff's office seeks charges against three men in pictographs graffiti
case Lewiston Morning Tribune (subscription) Pictographs at the Red Elk Rock Shelter, which is part of a rock formation known as Hen and Chicks, were defaced with gold-painted graffiti sometime in the ... |
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Answers From a Graffiti Artist, Part 3 New York Times (blog) The fact that you are an icon of this art, do you feel you can do something to promote anti graffiti to the private homeowners' property? ... |
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Austria: Former Nazi camp vandalized Ynetnews AP Vandals have defaced a former Nazi concentration camp with anti-Jewish and anti-Turkish graffiti, Austrian authorities said Friday. ... |
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Sacked for 'buttock graffiti' TODAYonline A mayor in central Mexico says he has fired a town official for spray-painting the buttocks of a teenage boy as punishment for graffiti tagging. ... |
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Crews Intensify Graffiti Fight As Temperatures Rise KETV Omaha Graffiti clean-up crews will be hard at work erasing months of vandalism as the temperatures rise. During much of the winter, it was too cold for the crews' ... |
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Graffiti cams help deter dozens of taggers KNDO/KNDU Nine months after being installed, the digital graffiti cams are working to deter people from tagging. When you hear sirens and see a flash, you know you've ... |
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Spot a pot hole, graffiti? There's an app for that KATU By Anita Kissee, KATU.com News The city of Portland has unveiled its new iPhone application for citizen reporting of pot holes and graffiti, but how well ... |
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Two men accused of tagging several Porterville areas with gang-related
graffiti Visalia Times-Delta Two Porterville men were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of tagging several areas in Porterville with Sureρo-related graffiti, according to a Police ... |
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Graffiti artist tied to 31 cases in Provo is arrested Deseret News PROVO Provo police closed the file on 31 graffiti cases after a traffic stop led to the arrest of a prolific street sketcher, they said. ... |
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Re-imagine graffiti as art Joliet Herald News Now, nearly all of what the McCollums sell are what they call "photos of graffiti," and they go for $50 to $575. Their "Lennon's Legacy" photographs will be ... |
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Reward offered in Monroe ballpark graffiti case KOMO News The graffiti started small on a bench in January. Last month it became bigger, filling a brick wall. And this week, it escalated with another group of ... |
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Graffiti - A police problem in Galveston Family Badge Calling graffiti and eyesore for visitors entering and leaving the city, Lt. Henry Porretto and a cadre of uniformed police officers are going about the ... |
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POLICE are investigating the daubing of racist graffiti on a church. Rutland and Stamford Mercury Church officials found the graffiti before a Sunday morning service and cleaned it off. Officers at Stamford Police Station have slammed the vandals and are ... |