Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bandit signs are shown along Ley Rd. at North Wayside Dr. in Houston on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. Signs proliferated during the ...

State legislation recently filed by a Montgomery County lawmaker could spell trouble for companies erecting illegal signs to advertise their businesses in northwest Harris County. The bandit signs are ...

SAN ANTONIO — They appear overnight, staked into medians, taped to poles and planted at busy intersections across the city. The handwritten signs advertise quick cash, houses for rent, or job offers.

While many northwest Harris County residents lounged in their backyards Saturday grilling burgers and enjoying the start of a long weekend, a group of 30 combed area roadways removing illegal signs in ...

A small confession: Those little plastic signs stuck in the ground near roadways that advertise Christmas light installers, cheap internet, ugly houses or any of dozens of other services drive me ...

Luz Lopez could see the writing on the wall, or more specifically the writing on the telephone poles and along the sidewalks and often in the medians of the busy streets in and around her Cloverleaf ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Starting Monday, people who post “bandit signs” along Beaumont roadways will face steep new fines under a state law aimed at cleaning up city streets. House Bill 3611, signed into ...

In this week’s podcast, reporter Doron Taussig has a horrible nightmare … that might come true! He dreams that bandit signs on streetlights and utility poles have become legal in the city. In fact, ...

Lawmakers in Austin are poised to send a message to companies cluttering telephone poles, road medians and public rights-of-way with offers of jobs, houses and predatory loans: Bandit signs are not ...

PINE HILLS, Fla. – Sandra Fatimi-Hall with the Pine Hills Community Council called them an eyesore. “They’re a nuisance and they don’t uplift the community in any way, shape, or form. It actually ...