ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Albuquerque City Council will vote on suspending controversial barbed and razor wire bans. City leaders say the law is not new, but only recently has it been enforced.

And it’s a problem that barbed wire and a gate can’t keep out. That’s because a man, suspected of stealing a boat, has been using a wetsuit to get onto the port’s docks.

Starting in 1890, Gates, through a serious of mergers and take-overs, created the monopoly that other barb wire makers had found impossible. His gambler’s instinct, as he saw it, was a way to ...

In a Trumpian spectacle of violent control, John “Bet-a-Million” Gates, a salesman of barbed wire working for the Washburn-Moen Company, came up with the gimmick of erecting a corral in ...

A pursuit driver in a stolen car T-boned a pickup after racing through a gas station Tuesday night, then climbed a fence topped with barbed wire as he ran from deputies in South Los Angeles.

The topic titles looked pretty unsavory, but, on reflection, the subject of barbed wire gates isn't all that delightful. In fact, I think I've stung this subject out far enough.

Trying to create a show, John Warne “Bet-a-Million” Gates and Pete McManus built a corral of barbed wire on Alamo Plaza.