In recent days, a Northeast Washington woman saw something in her neighborhood that aroused concern: two pairs of shoes dangling from power lines. She said she had heard that this was a gang symbol, ...

NEWARK, N.J. — George Williams has no doubt that the gray suede tennis shoes dangling from the telephone wire high above his house on 18th Avenue in Newark signify that drugs are sold there. Not long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

A missing man was found inside a chimney after his shoes were seen dangling from the shaft and screams were heard by residents. The body of a missing man was identified as 29-year-old Zachariah ...