A golden lion statue was found Monday morning, a day after it was stolen from an art installation on Decatur Boulevard and Flamingo Road. VIEW E-EDITION. 99¢ for 6 mos. Support local journalism.

The statue is based on a 3rd-century BCE sandstone sculpture known as “Lion Capital of Ashoka”, which was erected on a pillar by the Emperor Ashoka at Sarnath, in present-day Uttar Pradesh.

The statue was supposedly a tribute to a lion he kept as a pet. The statue adorned his 70-acre estate in Saratoga, known as the Hearst Castle of the North.

The lion and another statue, of a unicorn, both dating back to 1901, were removed from their perches on top of the Old State House at the corner of Washington and State streets for repairs last month.

A lion statue that was reworked to match its twin which was smashed by a car, has been declared as so ugly by locals that a bag has been placed over its head. The pair of two-tonne stone cats have ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City resident is looking for their family concrete lion after they said the statue was stolen from right outside their home earlier this week. The search for the ...