Lincoln statue’s bronze top hat pried off, stolen from Louisville waterfront

A statue of President Abraham Lincoln in Louisville, Kentucky, is missing a bronze top hat after it was pried off of a stone base recently. The hat sat next to a reclining Lincoln and a pair of books, all in bronze, on top of the base at the city’s Waterfront Park. “They had to be strong and determined to pry bronze from a base, good grief!” wrote Ed Hamilton, the piece’s creator, in a Facebook post on Saturday. “It was anchored down into that monolith rock. I don’t know what...