On June 17, 1914, AT&T (Bell Telephone had been renamed AT&T in 1885) raised the last telephone pole of the phone line that connected San Francisco to New York, and thus the first transcontinental ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of each state’s laws governing the recording of phone calls and in-person conversations and how those laws affect newsgathering. Because many of these ...

He later said that if he had understood electricity at all, he would have been too discouraged to invent the telephone. Everyone else "knew" it was impossible to send voice signals over a wire.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A suspected drunk driver struck a guide wire attached to a pole and landed their vehicle vertically on a street sign in Ann Arbor, police say. Police responded to a call of a ...

REHOBOTH, MASS. (WHDH) - A bad crash in Rehoboth Thursday morning ended with a truck resting upside down and a telephone pole in pieces. Police responded to the crash at around 5 a.m. Thursday ...

Officers say a driver was trying to swat a bee that made its way into their vehicle when they struck a telephone pole on Elmwood, bringing down live wires. The driver was taken to the hospital for ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A boy in a stolen car led police on a chase that ended with a crash into a pole on Superior Road. At 12:25 p.m. May 17, police learned from an automated license plate ...

A section of Route 22/322 in Dauphin County was closed for hours on Wednesday after a telephone pole snapped while PPL crews were working in the area. As of 7:15 p.m., the roadway is open in both ...

Guide the vine toward the moss pole, then use the twine or wire to hold the vine in place. Tie the twine in a figure-eight ...

A car hit a telephone pole and caused downed wires across the road. The downed wires have led to power outages for the RV park and Circle K nearby. The car was flipped onto its side with severe ...

Locals dodged beneath downed lines.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Last spring, a tractor-trailer snagged a utility wire and pulled down a telephone pole in nearly the same location, at the corner of Oriental ...

I try to take good care of my gear, but I'm also a bit of a klutz. I've been known to accidentally stomp on a tent pole or ...