Three U-Haul trucks were destroyed by fire inside a gated storage area near Ramon Road and Landau Boulevard early this morning, possibly after someone tried to siphon gas.

I’ll be honest. It is messed up to steal gas from anyone but we all mess up at some point in our lives and do things that we wish we could change. Our ecomony is so fragile and alot of people are unfortunately being pushed against the wall just to be able to survive. I just wanted to say that we need to continue to pray to God and ask him to deliver us from this. People are being robbed at gun point people are even being killed and it is awful. I just thank God that no one was harmed in this si

Forget gas-siphoning equipment. Brian McCarthy says gas thieves have a new tool -- cordless drills. McCarthy has been targeted before by diesel thieves. Yesterday, his truck was running on empty and his gas tank had a precision-drilled hole in it.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Government brokers responsible for collecting billions of dollars in federal oil royalties operated in a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" that included having sex with energy company employees, accepting lavish gifts and rigging contracts to favored firms, investigators said Wednesday.

With the new school year under way, University of North Carolina Wilmington Police Chief David Donaldson said he's keeping an eye on whether the slowing economy will lead to more crime around campus.