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Reason: 7 Rules for Recording Police, Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble by Steve Silverman:

Last week the City of Boston agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from his 2007 felony arrest for videotaping police roughing up a suspect. Prior to the settlement, the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Glik had a “constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public.” The Boston Police Department now explicitly instructs its officers not to arrest citizens openly recording them in public.

Slowly but surely the courts are recognizing that recording on-duty police is a protected First Amendment activity. But in the meantime, police around the country continue to intimidate and arrest citizens for doing just that. So if you’re an aspiring cop watcher you must be uniquely prepared to deal with hostile cops.

The man who runs a California school offering courses on growing marijuana says he will give up the project days after US federal agents raided it.

The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's record $656 million Mega Millions drawing has come forward to claim a share, a Kansas Lottery official said Friday.

A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Friday, April 5:...

A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Friday, April 5:...

Police said Friday that they believe they've found a gun that matches the serial number of a weapon purchased by One Goh, the man charged with fatally shooting seven people at Oikos University, a small school in Oakland, California.

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) -- A jury on Friday convicted a central Kansas man of capital murder in the killing of a 14-year-old cheerleader whose charred body was found at the asphalt plant where the man worked....

Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury after illegally buying one of the kidneys of a teenage boy, who used the money at least in part for an iPhone and an iPad, according to state media.

LONDON (AP) -- A Virgin Atlantic employee has resigned following allegations she routinely fed information about the airline's celebrity clientele - from Madonna to Sienna Miller - to a paparazzi agency....

LONDON (AP) -- A Virgin Atlantic employee has resigned following allegations she routinely fed information about the airline's celebrity clientele - from Madonna to Sienna Miller - to a paparazzi agency....

LONDON (AP) -- A Virgin Atlantic employee has resigned following allegations she routinely fed information about the airline's celebrity clientele - from Madonna to Sienna Miller - to a paparazzi agency....

LONDON (AP) -- A Virgin Atlantic employee has resigned following allegations she routinely fed information about the airline's celebrity clientele - from Madonna to Sienna Miller - to a paparazzi agency....

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A woman who has claimed to have Maryland's winning Mega Millions ticket now says she has lost it....

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A woman who has claimed to have Maryland's winning Mega Millions ticket now says she has lost it....

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland routinely grants divorces for couples who married in other states, and same-sex couples should be no different, lawyers for a lesbian couple told the state's highest court Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kosovo's prime minister says integration is the only option he will accept for his country's aggrieved Serb population. Speaking after meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week, Hashim Thaci rejected calls for greater autonomy for Serb communities in Kosovo's north....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kosovo's prime minister says integration is the only option he will accept for his country's aggrieved Serb population. Speaking after meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week, Hashim Thaci rejected calls for greater autonomy for Serb communities in Kosovo's north....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kosovo's prime minister says integration is the only option he will accept for his country's aggrieved Serb population. Speaking after meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week, Hashim Thaci rejected calls for greater autonomy for Serb communities in Kosovo's north....

Officials in Tunisia say two bloggers have been jailed for seven years after posting cartoons of a naked Prophet Muhammad on the internet.