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Easter Island statue 'vandalized' SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A Finnish tourist was detained after allegedly stealing a piece of volcanic rock from one of the massive Moai statues on Easter Island. Chilean Investigative Police released this photo showing the damage to the right earlobe. Marko Kulju, 26, faces seven years in prison and a fine of $19,100 if convicted of stealing pieces of the right earlobe from a Moai, one of numerous statues carved out of volcanic rock between 400 and 1,000 years ago to represent deceased ancestors. A native Rapanui woman told authorities she witnessed the theft Sunday at...

Church vandalized By DANNY ADLER Bucks County Courier Times Parishioners showed up to a Levittown church Sunday morning to see their house of worship vandalized. And a Philadelphia bomb squad was called in to check out what police said appeared to be a pipe bomb in a field behind the church. At Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on the 1700 block of Woodbourne Road, sayings like “God is dead” and “[expletive] Jesus” were written in green spray paint at the Our Lady of Fatima shrine in the church's front yard. The face of a statue of Mary was spray...

Northern Michigan's 9&10news.com (CBS TV affiliate) has the story: "Its the idea that somebody vandalizing something that means so much to so many, I have trouble understanding," an anguished Linda Fabian said while viewing a memorial to a fallen Marine from Mt. Pleasant, MI, that had been vandalized. When Lance Corporal Justin Ellsworth died in Iraq on November 13, 2004, Fabian got to work making sure Ellsworth and all the troops who put their lives on the line would not be forgotten. Fabian's own son served two tours in Iraq. "It wasn't about how big it was, it wasn't about...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The adult sons of an Idaho state senator are in hot water with authorities in Idaho's capital city after two American flags dedicated to soldiers killed in Iraq were vandalized. Twenty-four-year-old Michael Burkett was arrested and 22-year-old Thomas Burkett was cited for allegedly damaging flags and flagpoles on the grounds of the Idaho Capitol building this morning. Police say Michael Burkett also resisted and obstructed officers. Boise Police say one flag pole had been bent so the flag was lying on the ground, the other had been pulled from the ground. Their father is Boise Senator...

11-28) 11:46 PST OAKLAND -- An early morning fire gutted one of two convenience stores where a group of men in suits and bow ties trashed merchandise last week while denouncing the merchants for selling alcohol to African Americans. The fire at the New York Market at 3446 Market St. was reported at 1:19 a.m. today and was contained within about 15 minutes, authorities said. Oakland police are investigating whether the fire was arson, said police spokeswoman Officer Danielle Bowman. "However, it is too early to tell whether or not it is related to last week's vandalism," she said. One...

From combined dispatches Vandals stole or damaged 3,000 crosses at Louisiana State University that were set up as part of a silent pro-life protest against the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The attack on the crosses this week, put on the LSU Parade Grounds to decry the anniversary of the ruling that declared abortion a constitutional right, prompted special outrage from LSU Students for Life because a campus police officer saw five persons removing some crosses from the public space early Monday morning, but did not immediately report the individuals. "This was not meant for people...

List of Vandalized, Burned Churches during February 13-17'98 Riots Pamanukan District, Subang Municipality, West Java Province The riot occurred on Friday, February 13, 1998. Around 9:00 Western Indonesia Times (WIT) the police officers from Pamanukan sector urged the stores to be close immediately. The mob started to show up at 9:30 WIT. From the West side, the mob came by motorcycles, in a group of three per motorcycle. They wore black uniforms, with black head bands. The mob probably came from Ciasem. From the East side, the mob came by trucks. The two groups met on the crossroad between Jakarta-Cirebon...

Authorities detained several suspects early Saturday, hours after the attacks took place Friday night, but had not filed any charges, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said. A police officer reported Friday that about 100 people wearing masks and gloves were walking down a street near the headquarters, authorities said.

* Thugs storm campaign headquarters, intimidating staffers and refusing to leave. * Campaign signs are vandalized, stolen, and set on fire in front of peoples' homes. * The word "Nazi" is spray painted on the sidewalk in front of a home, along with swastikas. * Shots are fired through the window of campaign headquarters. * An 8-foot swastika is burned into a home’s front lawn. If these incidents sound reminiscent of Nazi Germany or the Klu Klux Klan's early rampages, then you're in for a surprise, because they all took place in modern day America, during the run-up to the...

For the half dozenth time since we've lived here in this neighborhood, our car has been vandalized. It's not the neighborhood (suburban) itself that's bad. It's the rotten teenagers who live in it, and have nothing better to do with their lives than to harass us. (When we first moved here, my Brother became friends with these jerks, and we've been having nothing but trouble with them since. All our other neighbors are mercifully left alone, while we wake up to find our property has been yet again vandalized in the middle of the night). I have no proof who...