Officials determined that a total of 26 underground vaults and mausoleums were broken into or desecrated from November 2025 until the day Gerlach was caught.
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Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
In 1993, White Supremacists in Billings desecrated a Jewish cemetery, sent bomb threats to a synagogue and threw a brick at a menorah in the window of a five-year-old Jewish boy.
Budapest is threatening to block a $103 billion loan to Ukraine unless Kyiv reactivates the Druzhba pipeline, a piece of Soviet-era infrastructure that has been out of service since it was damaged by a Russian attack in January.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Mar. 2026
Before heading onto the water, boaters should inspect all safety equipment and replace anything that’s damaged or expired.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
17 Mar. 2026
Last summer, Zeevi, who owns an HVAC company in San Jose, told KTVU that the vans at his shop were defaced with swastikas.
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Lucy Hodgman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
Splatters of paint now dot the mural of Iryna Zarutska, the slain Ukrainian refugee, after an unknown vandal defaced the building at the corner of North Western and West Montrose avenues.
Tile work and court paintings at historical sites were vandalized, the eyes of past royals gouged out.
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Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
The assailants, some armed, also vandalized security cameras and a vacant guard shack and slashed the tires of vehicles in the parking lot, authorities said.
Timberlake pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of driving while ability impaired (DWAI), a noncriminal traffic violation, in September 2024.
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Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
After decades of yearning, Newcastle are still waiting, only this time for what’s next, with clarity impaired by a blizzard of matches (a European-high 49 games this season).
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