Explore the forgotten world of steeplejacks through the life of Boyd Hobbs, a man who spent decades painting flagpoles and steeples, and whose unique vocation has nearly vanished from modern ...

Oct. 29: At 3:22 p.m., officers responded to a report of fraud. A Hutchinson man reported he was scammed out of $9,997 by someone ...

Republic Day holds a special place in the hearts of Indians as it commemorates the day the Indian Constitution came into effect in 1950. This momentous date marks India's transition to a republic ...

prosecutors’ charging documents alleged the Citrus Heights man grabbed a rioter’s flagpole and used it to assault a Capitol officer before giving the makeshift weapon to another rioter.

While I was there, one enthusiastic visitor climbed over the rope to sit with him ... of jeans used in place of an American flag on the flagpole next to the astronaut. Visitor Seth Stovell ...

A 3.5-HP motor powers the flag-hoisting mechanism, utilising a polymer-coated high-tensile steel rope engineered for this purpose. The current tallest flagpole in India, measuring 418ft ...

Recently, Schoonmaker expanded his efforts to include repair of the flagpole near the veterans’ section of Cavalry Cemetery. Repairs included a new pulley system, rope and flag.

"Something he’s said over and over is that he was trying to find a life raft, and there was a rope, but there was a big spider on the rope, and he was too scared to throw it," Dorsey says.