Arizona bronze cowboys statue returned after stolen from Scottsdale Mammen Gallery
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Arizona bronze cowboys statue returned after stolen from Scottsdale Mammen Gallery

ByNews Polite

A $12,000 bronze cowboy statue was returned to its rightful owner nearly four decades after it was stolen from an Arizona art gallery, according to a report. The two-foot-tall sculpture of a cowboy sitting down with a can of chewing tobacco in his hand was swiped from the Mammen Gallery…

Georgia statue of John Lewis installed to replace Confederate monument
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Georgia statue of John Lewis installed to replace Confederate monument

ByNews Polite

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews gently rested the 12-foot-tall…

Kansas man Ricky Alderete sentenced to prison for stealing bronze Jackie Robinson statue
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Kansas man Ricky Alderete sentenced to prison for stealing bronze Jackie Robinson statue

ByNews Polite

WICHITA, Kan. — The man who stole a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas is going to spend about 15 years in prison, although most of that time is related…