New laws let bars go louder, later

by Jeff Schweers USA Today November 16, 2010 MELBOURNE, Fla. — How much is too much noise? An increasing number of U.S. cities are trying to answer that question, as growing downtowns bustling with night life raise noise to levels that have some residents ready to...

Trying to take the bite out of hogs

by Joseph G. Cote Nashua Telegraph December 5, 2010 MERRIMACK – Plows will soon be the vehicles making a lot of noise on New Hampshire roads, but New Castle resident Bill Mitchell is focused on noise-makers popular during sunnier weather: motorcycles. Mitchell and...

Police cracking down on noise from cars

by Jeff Schweers and Kaustuv Basu USA TODAY January 10, 2011 Tom Palumbo likes to crank up the bass when he drives his purple 2005 Dodge Magnum. But after getting a $119 ticket in September for playing music too loudly on his car stereo, the 47-year-old Palm Bay,...