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Andy Keeble Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:00 AM

Sheds and barns are targeted during month-long crime spree.

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POLICE in North Devon are warning people to secure outbuildings following a rash of rural break-ins this month.

So far this month, 23 burglaries have been reported in areas including Atherington, Bishops Tawton, Goodleigh, Chivenor and North Molton.

Items stolen from sheds and barns include generators; strimmers; hedge cutters; quad bikes; ride-on lawnmowers; power tools; bicycles; and various hand tools.

PCSO Hannah Denton urged people to report any suspicious vehicles, particularly vans, and advised people to consider taking further security precautions.

Please contact police with as much details as possible and remember that suspicious activity does not just occur during the night, she said.

Even though home and business owners have placed secure padlocks, offenders have cut through them to gain entry to the buildings and have their pick of property from inside.

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By Bryan Spyros Updated: Friday, March 28, 2014, 6:03 pm Published: Friday, March 28, 2014, 5:47 pm Related Content

WEST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) A warning from West Haven police keep your garages locked up to keep the thieves out.

Frank and Claire Gentile know this first-hand. They had their house broken into years ago, which prompted them to secure their detached garage.

Thats when we decided to close everything in, lock everything up good and tight, Claire said, because I dont care where you live, no place is secure.

West Haven police say theyve seen people stealing from garages, things as big as a lawn mower to everyday tools anything worth value they can get their hands on.

Its easy for people to forget some of the costly items they keep in that part of their home.

We keep two cars here and I have a lot of stuff here that I used when I was in business, Frank said.

This is also about much more than garages. If you have any sheds in your backyard youre going to want to make sure those are locked as well.

Lock everything up tight because if you want it, someone else does too and they can sell these in 1, 2, 3.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - After Japan's naval and air forces attacked Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in December 1941, life for 7-year-old Lily Imahara and her family changed forever.

They were among hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans who were forcibly moved from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps by the U.S. government.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's February 1942 order gave the War Department the power to declare any part of the country a restricted military zone and exclude anyone from such an area. The next month, orders to move were posted for people of Japanese ancestry in Washington, Oregon, California and southern Arizona. More than 60 percent were American citizens.

What followed for the Imaharas - as well as Japanese-Americans who fought for the United States during World War II - is the focus of "From Barbed Wire to Battlefileds: Japanese American Experiences in World War II," an exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian Institution and on display through October at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Lily Imahara Metz, now 80, of Baton Rouge, often visits high schools in the Baton Rouge area to discuss her family's past and said the artifacts are must-see history.

"American people need to know," she said. "This is part of American history. You can't erase it. I know it's on the shameful side of history, but you can't ignore it."

Some show barbed wire encasing the camps and their guard towers. Others show the suitcases interned people brought to the camps - families were allowed only one. And then there are the images of Japanese Americans in U.S. military uniforms preparing for battle.

The Imaharas were housed at the Rohwer Relocation Center in Desha County, Ark. The camps were well-maintained and functioned much like small towns, said Walter Imahara, Metz's younger brother.

"We had our own schools and baseball games and dances and music," he recalled. "We just couldn't go anywhere. What was tragic was that the older people, like my parents, lost everything when we were moved."

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UPPER YODER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- At least Cambria County families were stolen from over the weekend as thieves broke into backyard sheds and took tools and ATVs from homes in Upper Yoder Township, including a very special dirt bike for a very special little boy with a debilitating disease.

It was two years ago when 6 News introduced its viewers to Frank Weaver as his mom began her fight to get him special medicine to help slow down his disease. Now, his family is again fighting against time to get his bike back before he's too sick to use it anymore.

Lynne Faint, Frank's mother, said she and at least five of her neighbors woke up this past weekend to find the locks on their backyard sheds cut off and many of the things they kept inside gone.

"Quads, dirt bikes and also chainsaws, gardening stuff and things like that," Faint said.

Also missing was a bike designed specially for her son. He has Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, a disease that weakens and eliminates his muscle. It's already affecting his walking and could very soon bind him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

"It was specially bought for him and he saved his money for it," Faint said. "It was an opportunity for him to feel really special and to have a dirt bike like all the other kids in the neighborhood have."

"I got that specially made for me with training wheels on it," Weaver said. "The training wheels are like blue and it's easier for me to ride so I don't fall off."

Police are investigating the thefts and some of the neighbors have already gotten their stuff back. But Frank is still waiting for his bike and until that happens, both he and his mom have a message for the people who stole it.

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ROSEVILLE, CA (KCRA/CNN) Garden sheds and picnic tables were sent flying when a tornado touched down near Roseville, CA Wednesday.

Several houses in one neighborhood suffered thousands of dollars in damages.

Mark Thompson estimates his garden shed weighs a thousand pounds, but says the tornado picked it up, threw it against his home, then eight feet into his backyard.

"Debris was flying and my picnic table was picked up from the side of my house and flew and hit their house," Thompson said.

The picnic table not only hit the back wall of Keith Kun's house, it broke all the way into a bedroom on the second floor.

The tornado also smashed Kun's backyard fence, busted two of his windows and littered his pool with wood chips and a ceramic planter.

"The fire marshal said they'll likely have to pull all the stucco off the back of the house," Kun said, "and he said with the windows and everything, probably between $25,000 and $30,000 worth of repairs to the house."

First reported as a funnel cloud near Sacramento International Airport at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, the tornado touched down in west Roseville around 6:15 p.m. It continued as a funnel cloud and wall could to Loomis around 7 p.m.

The weather service says this tornado stayed on the ground for a couple hundred yards, and within a few seconds, it was gone.

In all, 12 homes had at least minor damage and no one was hurt. For most people, it was a reason to grab a cell phone, snap pictures and shoot video, and tell their friends across the country that California can be tornado country.

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