On Wednesday morning, Shawn Rowe and his wife were crossing East Silver Street in Kensington with their 3-year-old daughter and their newborn in a stroller. The block, near the intersection of ...

One of the nation's busiest scrap-metal yards—a sprawling 83-acre site in Jersey City populated by cranes and a massive shredder that can crush a car in 10 seconds—sat right in the middle of ...

One person's carport roof destroyed by Hurricane Ike is another person's gold mine. Area scrap-metal recyclers say they are keeping especially busy with people bringing in fences, sheet metal, washing ...

The city of Portland, Maine, is close to making an official deal to relocate two scrap yards from the Bayside area of the city to another location in the town. The city has been working to redevelop ...

Several Connecticut scrap metal yards may be breaking the law, according to a two-month investigation conducted by New Haven Register reporters. On an afternoon in March, two New Haven Register ...

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, computer technician Jim Delfino was laid off by the Florida company at which he had worked for over two decades. After five years of looking for employment in ...

In a rare use of federal racketeering laws, a group of three scrap metal yards has sued lawyers they say are tormenting them. In a 40-page complaint filed late Monday in U.S. District Court, two scrap ...

There are a variety of media reports this weekend exploring the issue of thieves who are absconding with beer kegs and taking them to scrap metal yards where they can receive upwards of $50 for an ...

The Kansas City Council is considering a new ordinance that would make it easier to track scrap metal sales at local scrap yards and perhaps make it easier to track sales of stolen scrap metal.

More than 50 Indianapolis police officers will no longer be allowed to work off-duty at a metal recycling business that is under investigation in the alleged purchase of stolen scrap metal. Raids by ...