Threats disrupt 10 southern Delaware schools

State police have arrested four people after bomb threats and text messages warning of shootings disrupted the final day of state standardized testing at 10 southern Delaware schools.

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Best-laid plans: Media beat Obama to the punch

Sen. Barack Obama's pledge to supporters that they would be the "first to know" his running mate turned out to be a savvy but unworkable communications strategy.

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Amazon Launches Text-Message Shopping

Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones.

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Text Messages Land Teacher in Hot Water

A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to state trooper instead of a dealer, police said.

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Verizon Wireless Raises Texting Rate

Verizon Wireless is raising the text messaging rate for customers without a monthly texting plan to 15 cents per message sent or received, an increase of 5 cents.

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Text Message Novel Published in Finland

A novel in which the entire narrative consists of mobile phone text messages was published Wednesday in Finland.

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Cingular Raises Pay-As-You-Go Text Rate

Cingular Wireless is raising the text messaging rate for customers without a monthly texting plan to 15 cents per message sent or received, an increase of 5 cents.

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Police: Teen Suicide Attempt Kills Woman

A lovesick teenage girl drove into an oncoming car in a suicide attempt that she counted down "8, 7, 6..." in a text message to the female classmate who spurned her, authorities said. The teenager survived but a woman in the other car — a mother of three — died.

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Sprint Hikes Pay-As-You-Go Texting Rate

Sprint Nextel Corp. will now charge 15 cents per message — a 5 cent increase — for using text messaging without a monthly package.

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It turns out that Canada's transport minister, a Conservative called John Baird, was to blame. He is a Thatcher fan, and 16 years ago, he named his pet cat after the Iron Lady.

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The rise of computers and mobile phones means children are no longer taught the techniques required to write properly. For the Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco, this is a bad thing.

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Three chicks celebrate Happy Hour and each hour that ensues. The longer the drink the more their good judgement goes out the window. New Tomboys in Fishnets video that parodies the progression of drunkenness after Happy Hour passes.

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Text from the BBC article by Jonathan Fildes, BBC's technology journalist. Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.

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The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research — and far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions

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10 Texting Rules for Dating Singles

Though texting is generally seen as a nuisance by people over the age of 40, it appears that texting is here to stay and may actually be preferred by many singles.

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New studies show that drivers overestimate their ability to multitask behind the wheel. This game measures how your reaction time is affected by external distractions. Regardless of your results, experts say, you should not attempt to text when driving.

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In 2007, there were 969 reported hate crimes committed against Jews, according to the FBI, constituting 12.7 percent of all hate crimes reported and 69 percent of religious bias hate crimes reported.

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Receiving text messages—from your brain? By Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times You know that little voice in your head? The one that nags you to go to the gym after spending a sedentary weekend watching the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" marathon on TV?

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Undercover cops spent months following the girlfriend of one of Europe's most wanted crooks - only to find she was cheating on him. More than 50 SWAT officers staked out a remote farmhouse in Serbia after intercepting a text message arranging a rendezvous on her mobile phone.

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BOCA RATON — Two juveniles may have learned a valuable lesson Tuesday night: After committing a burglary, don't text incriminating messages to your accomplice because police might be interrogating him at the time.

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Try one of my five patented Romance Enhancers -- if you don't think they're more effective than a gift card, I'll send you a full refund. See more irresistible headlines

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Truth is stranger than fiction, and in Egypt it's even stranger than crazy Japanese horror-fiction. The Egyptian Health and Interior ministries have apparently announced that text messages can't kill people.

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When Kevin Tobosa got word Thursday that a friend needed help building a sandbag dike, he immediately posted a status update on his Facebook page: "Heading to 2825 Lilac Lane in North Fargo — needs to be raised another 2 feet."

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Police are investigating complaints from a parent that a teacher at Azalea Middle School text messaged her son pornographic images to his cell phone.

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A former Upper Dauphin High School teacher was sentenced to 10 years' probation Wednesday in Dauphin County Court after pleading guilty to sending sexually explicit text messages and touching students in his classes.

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Send a last-minute Valenteine card from Plain White Tees or go to to choose from a deep selection of cards including Twilight, Transformers, Juno, Napoleon Dynamite and MORE...

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The Anthonys' attorney spoke with media Friday afternoon about George Anthony. (01/23/09)

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Incident Report by the Orange County Sheriff's Office

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Teen sends 41,600 texts in a month - that's almost 1 a minute... See more irresistible headlines

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AT&T spammed a "'significant number' of its 75 million customers" yesterday with text messages advertising the premiere of American Idol.

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Stalking by Texting: Are you guilty?

If you've ever sent a series of unanswered text messages to one person in a 24-hour or less window of time, you may be guilty of overtexting.

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Thieves aren't known to be the brightest, and here's another example. Carjackers were tripped up when they responded to an SMS sting run not by the police, but the carjack victim and his friends.

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DETROIT -- You can finally call it a "recession," thanks to President George W. Bush's recent use of the term to describe the fragile state of the U.S. economy. But word-watchers far and wide forbid you to say the pain has spread from "Wall Street to Main Street."

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Texting while driving is illegal or it it. View the article for an opinion

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