(CBS/AP) FRANKFORT, Ky. - Seems every time you turn around someone's taking a poll these days. In central Kentucky, thieves even took a couple of barber poles. The most recent pole was taken Wednesday ...

What's red, white and blue, and has spun its way into controversy? It's the barber pole. The pole sometimes rotates outside the shops of cosmetologists or hair stylists who don't employ barbers.

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 ...

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 ...

FOND DU LAC - Walk through the doors of Central Barber on North Main Street and you get hit with that “Andy of Mayberry” feel. Red Mullenbach has been cutting hair in Fond du Lac for more than 50 ...

A nearly $800 electric barber pole was returned to a Springfield barber on Friday, two days after it was reported stolen — thanks to a social media post that was viewed more than 26,000 times. MORE ...

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.

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 Ballard and ...

WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian Institution has received a bit of red, white and blue Americana from St. Paul, Minn. – a pair of barber poles manufactured by the William Marvy Co. The Marvy company, the ...