MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...

GILROY, Calif. -- Emergency radio transmissions from the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival describe a chaotic scene with multiple victims and a shooter on the loose seen running away.

It doesn’t cost much to break onto a police-scanner channel and curse, spew hateful language or threaten an elected leader as an “unauthorized user” has been doing this week in Pittsburgh, experts ...