Stocks sold off sharply yesterday, led by the technology sector, after three trading days of impressive gains. The S&P 500 had recovered approximately half of its correction losses and was challenging ...

Vermont officials have recovered an antique weather vane stolen in the last century, solving a 41-year-old cold case. Modeled after the first steam locomotives, the five-foot-long copper piece was ...

On a stormy night in November 1983, thieves took a pair of ladders from a Hallowell construction site, scaled the nearby fire station’s tower, and absconded with its weather vane. A city fixture since ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A weather vane is an instrument used to show the direction the wind is blowing from. It is one of the simplest weather instruments created and it has been used since ancient times. The ...

Weather vanes, used for centuries to indicate wind direction, now serve primarily as ornamental and symbolic decorations. Weather vane designs, often crafted from copper or gold-gilded steel, range ...

Have you ever wondered how an electronic wind vane translates a direction into a unique signal? It seems as though it might be very complicated, and indeed some of them are. [martinm] over at ...

Perched atop churches, barns, businesses, homes and seats of government, weather vanes have over hundreds of years taken the form of everything from farm animals to pets, storybook figures to race ...

GILBERTSVILLE, N.Y. - Uncas, a large copper weather vane of an Indian, has long been the pride of this village about 45 minutes from Cooperstown. But its sale to a wealthy New Jersey art collector has ...