Boy George, scheduled for a U.S. tour this summer, including a stop at NYC's Dept. of Sanitation picnic, has been denied a visa. He told Papermag: "I'm pretty devastated because I am so excited about this forthcoming tour and having my visa application denied seems unfair after I swept the streets of New York spotless. I committed a crime and I happily paid the consequences and I should be allowed to move on and get......

A tiny Boston Terrier named Ginger was literally ripped right off its owner's leash yesterday and sucked into the moving parts of a Dept. of Sanitation street sweeper. Robert Machin was getting into his car parked on the side of a street in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The door of his Honda Civic was still open and Machin was in the process of moving his dogs into the car, when witnesses said that......

Original photo by Louis Lanzano/AP. Two years after pleading guilty to falsely calling in a break-in and donning an orange Department of Sanitation vest while sweeping the streets of Chinatown (as part of his community service duty), Boy George has announced he'll play a private show for the NYC Department of Sanitation workers later this summer. From the press release:Boy George will help celebrate New York City’s Department of Sanitation Family Day this summer!......

Photo by Joe Schumacher. Forget about the arrests for pot possession going up, it's now being reported that ticketing for not using the pooper-scooper is at an all time high! The Dept. of Sanitation reports that 775 tickets for not following the Canine Waste Law (est. 1978) have been handed out since last July, a number that has more than doubled since the previous year. It's expected that number will rise even higher as......