It is legal to own a police scanner radio; on that, pretty much everyone agrees. Where things get sticky is when you take it out of your home.

Best Personalized: Whistler TRX-1 Handheld Digital Scanner Radio; Our Methodology. I chose the best police scanners by taking a look at both of the most common products: ...

A typical handheld scanner capable of receiving a digital signal can go for $400 or more. “To outfit our administrators, we’ll be in the neighborhood of $2,000,” Labrecque said.

Details are a bit light on this one, but thanks to a tipster and some chatter we picked up on the interblogs, it looks like Radio Shack may be about to undergo a pretty noticeable rebranding.

Last year, the Radio Shack in my neighborhood burned to the ground. We waited months for it to be rebuilt, and at last (joy!) it was — now I can walk up ...

Nighttime Scanner. Dakota Santiago, a news photographer, roams the city in his car, listening in on police activity over a handheld radio. Across the country, many others do the same. But as ...