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Exponent's Brian Ott chaired the Explosives Task Group that developed recommended fire prevention practices for waste pyrotechnics and fireworks...

The staff at OHaras Irish Pub has a certain phrase in mind during its soft opening: Respect your origins.

NEW YORK — When her cellphone’s service went down Feb. 22 because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk

Landlines have become more and more a remnant of a time gone by, an anachronism of a now-unfathomable era when leaving your house meant being unavailable to callers. But they

Landlines have practically reached the status of urban legend among many Americans today. According to the most recent estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics, about 73 percent of American adults in 2022 lived in households where there were only wireless phones.

NEW YORK -- When her cellphones service went down last week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didnt panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way -- on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone.

When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines.

NEW YORK (AP) — When her cellphone's service went down this week beca

New York — When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way —...

About 73% of American adults in 2022 lived in households where there were only wireless phones and no landlines, while another 25% were in households with both. Barely over 1% had only landlines