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"I didn’t vandalize anything," Hearn told the Washington Post last month.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

The only time Arzu called the police when he was living there was when he saw “young kids” vandalize a neighbor’s home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

Three years ago, a spate of incidents prompted lawmakers to stiffen laws penalizing those who vandalize Italy’s venerable cultural heritage.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023

“And yes, if they’re going to go through all the hassle to vandalize one of my books, you’d think they’d check their spelling.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

Missouri Revised Statute 194.410 states that any person or entity that “knowingly disturbs, destroys, vandalizes, or damages a marked or unmarked human burial site commits a class D felony.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

The bill upgrades the charge from a misdemeanor to a felony if someone vandalizes “any public monument or structure on public property.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2021

Macron’s government has said it will crack down harder on unauthorized protests and get tougher on anyone who loots or vandalizes shops and monuments.

From Reuters ● Jan. 9, 2019

When Bart vandalizes a statue in the center of Springfield, he confesses to the whole town and is immediately forgiven.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2014

He draws in nail polish, sloshes gnarly ceramic sculptures with glaze, builds and vandalizes Formica plinths in mockery of Minimalism and makes street-wise, toxic-looking Rothkos, using black and fluorescent spray paint.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2010

On Monday, activists vandalized the entrance to Day Hall, home to Kotlikoff’s office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Attorney Michael Spence told the judge during a September hearing that there was no plan to recharge Hearn, but he couldn’t promise the office wouldn’t investigate further whether he vandalized the reflecting pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

People vandalized and stole Ponce’s whiteboards, adding a dimension of drama to the tracker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Late country music legend Dolly Parton will get a new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, after the original one was vandalized, officials have announced.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Gunn made it a rule that there should be no retreat, that once a car was “reclaimed” it should never be allowed to be vandalized again.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to prosecute David Hearn, a former Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Iran’s prosecutor-general, Mohammad Movahedi-Azad, expanded that standard in January to include vandalizing public property and instructed prosecutors to pursue such cases without leniency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The outages as well as regular shortages of food, medicine and other basics are spurring frustrations, with demonstrators vandalizing a provincial office of the Cuban Communist Party last weekend.

From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026

Bass and other elected officials in Los Angeles have repeatedly asked protesters to remain nonviolent and refrain from spray-painting graffiti or otherwise vandalizing or burglarizing businesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024