LAKE ELMO - After several months in development, Lake Elmo council members have approved new rules for cellular towers in the city, paving the way for the end of a moratorium on the towers.

Police arrest suspect in a smash and grab at the Sprint cell phone store on Peachtree Road in Buckhead.

WEST CHESTER — John deGlavina, a 2006 West Chester University graduate, began an interactive Web site for cell phone users during his freshman year and today the site receives about a million unique visitors a month, according to Google Analytics, and is ranked among the top 10,000 Web sites in the U.S., according to Alexa Internet Inc.

While smart phones have been with us for the better part of this decade, it was in 2009 that they became a mainstream phenomenon, reshaping what it means to compute, surf the Web and share information. Led by the iPhone and the BlackBerry family of devices,...

Journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari was tortured and jailed for more than 100 days for reporting on the unrest After the re-election of Ahmadinejad I was in an Iranian jail for 118 days, 107 of them in solitary. Every day I was told "Mr Bahari, the world has forgotten about you." So the best day of my time there was when one of the guards called me "Mr Hillary Clinton". I asked him why, and ...

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While smart phones have been with us for the better part of this decade, it was in 2009 that they became a mainstream phenomenon, reshaping what it means to compute, surf the Web and share information. Led by the iPhone and the BlackBerry family of devices,...

By David Cole In the fall of 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen on his way home from Tunisia, was pulled out of line by US officials while changing planes at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. He was locked up for twelve days, much of that time incommunicado, and harshly interrogated. When he was finally allowed to make a phone call, after a week in captivity, he called his mother in Canada ...

Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was, well, a color, and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV?

More than a dozen San Jose police officers repeatedly used force in taking people into custody on charges of resisting arrest, a Mercury News review finds. The department is only now adding the ability to keep track of such incidents.    Special report: San Jose Police Under Fire | Crime