Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces inside its glass ...

Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

LAKE OSWEGO -- Tyler Atkinson, who has run the venerable Country Square Barber Shop for the past two years, came to work today to his classic red-white-and-blue barber pole ripped from the outside ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Friendly arguments aren't hard to find in a barbershop, but try cutting in on a hallowed symbol — that red, white and blue pole — and it may be time to hide the scissors.

HOLLY HILL, Fla. — Thieves took off with a barber shop pole Tuesday night that had been spinning outside a Holly Hill barber shop for almost 60 years. The owner, Joseph Navarra, 83, who opened the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces ...

SEATTLE — An item that can fetch a lot of money in pawn shops has become the object of a series of thefts in Seattle. No, it's not laptops, iPods or stereos. It's barber poles. Three barber shops in ...