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Pair Who Flew Drone Dangerously Close To Boston's Logan Airport In Custody After Pursuit: Cops Pair Who Flew Drone Dangerously Close To Boston's Logan Airport In Custody After Pursuit: Cops
Pair Who Flew Drone Dangerously Close To Boston's Logan Airport In Custody After Pursuit: Cops Two Massachusetts men were arrested on Saturday, Dec. 14, after a hazardous drone operation near Logan International Airport triggered a coordinated safety response, police said. Boston Police officers apprehended 42-year-old Robert Duffy of Charlestown and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik of Bridgewater, on Long Island in the Boston Harbor Islands around 10:22 p.m. Both face charges of trespassing, with additional charges potentially pending. The incident began at 4:30 p.m. when a Boston Police Officer monitoring real-time crime surveillance detected a drone dangerously close to Logan Internation…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract Five More Years Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract Five More Years
Howard Stern Extends SiriusXM Contract Five More Years Coming to SiriusXM from traditional radio 15 years ago made Howard Stern feel like “Tina Turner freeing myself from Ike,” the self-proclaimed “king of all media” said Tuesday in announcing a five-year contract extension. The deal, which also covers another seven years of audio and video archives of “The Howard Stern Show,” will reportedly earn the 66-year-old Long Islander $120 million a year. It’s Stern’s fourth-straight five-year contract with SiriusXM Satellite Radio, coming just a few weeks before the last one was to expire. He spoke of it on his show Tuesday morning: “Fifteen years …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Man Jammed Newark Airport GPS Signals, FCC Says NJ Man Jammed Newark Airport GPS Signals, FCC Says
NJ Man Jammed Newark Airport GPS Signals, FCC Says The Federal Communications Commission has issued a stern warning to a New Jersey man who allegedly used an electronic device that jams GPS signals.  The warning? Knock it off. Now.  According to the FCC, the agency received a complaint March 28 from another federal regulatory agency, the FAA, that the GPS system at Newark Liberty International Airport had experienced "harmful interference."  In a notice to the man, the FCC said it was able to track a transmission sent at a restricted frequency to a vehicle traveling south on the New Jersey Turnpike. That vehicle belonged to …

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Mahwah Police Urge Residents To Report Rising Middle-Of-Night Robo Calls Mahwah Police Urge Residents To Report Rising Middle-Of-Night Robo Calls
Mahwah Police Urge Residents To Report Rising Middle-Of-Night Robo Calls MAHWAH, N.J. – Mahwah’s police chief on Thursday urged residents to report what has become a rising number of middle-of-the-night robo-call hangups to federal authorities. “There’s been a dramatic increase of complaints regarding robo calls throughout the state but also within Mahwah,” Police Chief James N. Batelli said. These aren’t the same as those from con men trying to fool people into saving money on electric bills or low mortgages or believing that they needed to pay money to rescue a relative from trouble or avoid arrest by the IRS, he said. The new trend of calls “are getting thro…

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by Jerry DeMarco