Give historian and tour guide Diana Stuart a few minutes, and it will be hard to look at the street the same way again. For the last dozen years, Stuart has made historic manhole covers, coal chute ...
OK, Dylan fans, here's a pop quiz: Your job is to name the Bob Dylan song depicted on a manhole cover -- yes, we said manhole cover -- designed by Duluth artist Laurel Sanders. The artwork shows a ...
There are still tons of them around, though you probably never notice. There is no reason you should have noticed them: Manhole covers are just sort of part of the road. But if you looked down, you’d ...
Long Beach has become the latest target in a worldwide epidemic of manhole-cover larceny, authorities say. Nearly 50 of the 150-pound, cast-iron lids have been swiped from roadways and alleys in the ...
Three weeks ago 12-year-old Shamira Fingers from South Philadelphia was walking down a city street near her home when she suddenly fell into an open sewer hole. Frantic witnesses called 911, and ...
The open manhole in Glenanda which has been left like this for years. JOHANNESBURG SOUTH – Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) is introducing alternative non-metal manhole covers and drainage grates as ...
A famous question during job interviews is, "Why are manhole covers round?" Perhaps the better question is "Why are manhole covers missing?" Eighteen more were found in the suspects' homes. So, back ...
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) --It started in the city, now manhole thieves are moving to the suburbs. They're stealing, then selling, hundreds of heavy manhole covers and reaping healthy profits.
LONG BEACH – The Long Beach Water Department announced Monday that nearly 50 cast-iron manhole covers, weighing about 100 to 200 pounds each, have been stolen throughout the city in the last eight ...