Cute, cuddly, and teddy-bear like are just a few or the words to describe the giant panda. Endangered is another one. Giant pandas, which are named  as such to distinguish them from red pandas, can live between 20 and 30 years. Unlike other types of bears, pandas don’t hibernate during the winter. Instead they move […]

Smartphone thefts are becoming so pervasive throughout the United States that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently embarked on a quest to combat the crime, including working with wireless companies on the growing problem. In major cities, like DC and New York, approximately 40 percent of all thefts now involve cell phones, according to […]

In January 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark United States v. Jones case that attaching a GPS tracking device to a vehicle without a search warrant was considered an unlawful search and seizure. However, last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled differently in the United States v. Pineda-Moreno […]

A 76 year old Illinois woman, had the scare of her life when she fell through an open manhole behind a store in Palantine, Illinois.   The woman apparently was disoriented and did not know where she was.  Luckily, quick thinking dispatchers used the cellphone’s GPS to pinpoint her location.  She was rescued a short time […]

Much to the chagrin of children enjoying the last bit of their summer vacation, any day now school will begin in the tens of thousands of schools around the country. And along with school being back in session, comes the parade of yellow-school buses hauling some of our nation’s very precious cargo. But this year, […]