You've probably seen them before: a random pair of shoes on power lines, hanging there like they're part of the scenery. It's ...

This is part of an on-going series answering "Why is that?" questions about Salem and the Mid-Valley. The question: Why are shoes dangling from overhead utility lines in our community? We try to ...

LITTLE ROCK — There is something hanging over Cantrell. Or, some things, more accurately. For the past few months, the people living, working or just driving on Cantrell Road around the Mississippi ...

SOUTH WHITTIER — A dozen pairs of shoes dangle from the telephone wires across from a public housing complex in South Whittier. Were they placed there as an advertisement for a local drug dealer? As ...

The mystery hangs above our streets, as much a part of the cityscape as pigeons and litter, but tangled up in urban myth: those sneakers dangling from overhead wires. Some say the errant shoes stake ...

An e-mail sent out to the third district police listserv has touched off quite a debate pitting neighbor against neighbor, resident against cop! Everyone wants to prove their street cred. The subject: ...

Recently, someone has been hanging shoes from various phone and electric cables around the East Side. Instead of two shoes tied together, though, it's just one shoe tied to the word "DRIPZ" written in ...