New York police ticket $140M radio network over distortion problems
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Because of signal distortion problems, police officers in New York have yet to start using a $140 million radio network designed to enable officers at street level and in the city's subway to communicate with each other.
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Exclusive: In a setback for the prosecution of file sharers, Capitol Records is ordered to pay most of a P2P defendant's legal fees. In Listening Post.
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BURLINGTON, Iowa - A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollars bills used to pay a parking ticket has been fined $250.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s office now shits their attention to the music industry, particularly its practices for influencing what songs are heard on the public airwaves.
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By Michael Virtanen  You could get clipped $100 for walking, jogging or cycling across a New York City street with an iPod plugged into your ears under a new law proposed by a state senator from Brooklyn.
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The Federal Communications Commission has ordered CBS to pay a fine of $550,000 for its Super Bowl halftime show, a record penalty for indecency.
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The recording industry, already battered by a surge in recent years of illegal music piracy, increased competition and heavy regulatory scrutiny, is facing a new and potentially costly examination into its practices by Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney
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Prosecutors say a man used fake badges and a car outfitted with lights and a siren to convince people he was a police officer and get them to pay "fines."
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed fines totaling US$2.8 million to three wireless carriers for failing to meet coverage requirements for an emergency dialing service called E911, the agency said Thursday.
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In our gadget-hungry society, where iPods have become the accessory du jour, one lawmaker wants device devotees to wake up and hear the traffic. He's pushing a proposal to make plugging in on New York streets a crime.
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New York City's congestion pricing plan cleared a key hurdle on Thursday, when the state government finally authorized it to begin installing "the needed equipment" though lawmakers denied it the ability to impose an $8-per-car fee without their approval.
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a fine and reimburse users who were disconnected for "excessive" use of a cellular broadband service that was marketed as allowing "unlimited" use, New York's state attorney general announced Tuesday.
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A radio station owner who promoted a concert featuring pyrotechnics that started a deadly nightclub fire reached a tentative $22 million settlement with survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
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Police and firefighters need more accurate data on mobile callers. The FCC has some ideas--but fixes aren't cheap.
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The Federal Communications Commission hit CBS on Wednesday (September 22) with a proposed maximum fine of $550,000 for &quot;violation of indecency rules,&quot; stemming from its broadcast of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in February.
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A Washington copyright panel that more than doubled fees U.S. Internet radio stations must pay for music is being called the industry's possible executioner.
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NEW YORK - The city is showing no mercy to a priest who got a $115 ticket for parking in an ambulance zone while ministering to an ailing hospital patient.  Two months after ticketing the Rev. Cletus Forson of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, the city has thrown out his appeal.