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 ...

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: ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Lakhvir Sohal, a rising senior at the University of Michigan, knows what he’s going to do to celebrate graduation – throw a pair of shoes onto some power lines near his rented house.

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 ...