Those unwanted phone books that get dropped on your front lawn only to be tossed in the recycle bin are free speech protected by the Constitution, according to the 9th Circuit. “Although portions of ...

Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

New website offers Americans the chance to opt-out of phone books. Feb. 1, 2011— -- A new website is giving Americans a way to say "no thanks" to deliveries of Yellow Pages phone books. Starting ...

Soon after Hendersonville resident Terry Hicks received his new AT&T YP Real Yellow Pages phone book in January, he turned to it to look up a friend's number. When he couldn't find his friend's ...

Are you trying to find someone you’ve lost touch with? Are you afraid of signing a business deal with a new partner who you don’t know at all? You don’t have to hire a private investigator to get the ...

SEATTLE The City of Seattle rolled out a new online registry Thursday that allows residents and businesses to choose whether they will receive yellow pages phone books. But an industry group calls it ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

Way, way back in the olden days, people wrote on typewriters, watched just five TV channels, and put sugar in their coffee. There was no such thing as gluten-free, eco-friendly, satellite radio, or ...

Two publishers of Yellow Pages phone books and an industry association sued Seattle in federal court Monday, seeking to overturn an ordinance that would let residents decide if they want to receive ...

San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to ban the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages under legislation to be formally introduced today by Board of Supervisors President ...

The city of Seattle is finalizing an agreement to pay $500,000 to settle its losing fight against the publishers of the yellow pages phone books, according to two sources familiar with the lawsuit.