Tony Bennett says it’s a ‘crime’ radio stations don’t pay performers for playing their tunes

WASHINGTON — Singer Tony Bennett says it’s a crime that performers don’t get paid by radio stations when their music is broadcast.

Obituaries in the news

Stephen Barnett

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Barnett, a First Amendment professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and prominent critic of the state court system, has died. He was 73.

NYC mayor, already on television and radio with campaign ads, launches online blitz

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign ads are already all over television and radio, and now they’ll be popping up online as well.

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