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Drug settlement money and a state grant will fund the new substance abuse treatment wing at the Bay County Jail.

AUSTIN — Texas will receive more than $26 million for rural broadband expansion.

People struggling with mental health crises can now call 988, a new number focused on providing lifesaving suicide prevention and crisis services.

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Activists have been calling on the city of Detroit to make water affordable to help low-income residents keep their water on. Now, eight years after protesters first started the call, the city has a lifeline plan in place.

FCC launched online help center to help internet service providers prepare Broadband Data Collection submissions. FCC entered Consent Decree with Liberty Mobile USVI, Inc., ending investigation into Liberty’s failure to report network outage on St. Croix network.

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A Florida-based telecommunications carrier will pay more than $13 million as part of a civil settlement for violating the False Claims Act.

The communications company cites growing demand, a commitment to underserved communities, and public assistance programs as reasons for the expansion....

A company that the government paid to distribute "Obamaphones" -- the nickname critics gave to government phones given to poor people -- has agreed to pay $13.4 million to settle a case alleging that it doled out devices to tens of thousands of people who didn't deserve them.