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 ...

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 ...

Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...