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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Barbers and beauticians are splitting hairs over an iconic image: the swirling red, white and blue striped pole that often stands outside a barber shop. Barbers in several states are proposing ...

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 ...