ORANGE, Texas — Orange Police are concerned with and trying to crack down on a growing illegal trend they are seeing in the Greater Orange area. Copper wire found in telephone cables has become a hot ...

Most of you get your broadband from one company — probably from what used to be called a cable company. And most of you get your mobile phone service from a different company — probably from what many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of abandoned telephone cables throughout the US are likely leaching toxic lead into American soil and waterways, an ...

Lead does not break down over time and so accumulates in soil, but not much federal testing or scientific research has focused on the potential risks coming from lead-sheathed telephone cables. READ ...

If you’ve ever gone hunting for a replacement phone charger, you know that products today come with a wide variety of price tags. Purchase directly from the original manufacturer and you could easily ...

Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay is one of the sites where telephone cables were recently removed from. Ken Lund via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Miles of defunct, lead-covered telephone cables have long sat ...