It all started with pay toilets. In 1955, James McNutt St. was working for his grandpa's business, Indianapolis-based Nik-O-Lok Co., making, selling and leasing coin-operated rest-room locks. But he ...

Police on Sunday issued a community alert about a burglar who has been stealing coins from laundry machines in the Rogers Park, West Ridge, and Edgewater neighborhoods. In each incident, the burglar ...

The Yuba City Police Department said thieves stole coin-operated washing machines in several apartment complexes -- by cutting water lines and electrical cords, and carrying off the whole machine ...

Are you looking to get some laundry done on the cheap or, even better yet, free? It turns out a security flaw in a popular internet-connected laundry machine vendor could allow anyone to avoid paying ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A man prosecutors labeled a career criminal for repeatedly stealing from washing machine coin boxes in apartment buildings has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ernest Baugh, ...