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Portland police arrested a 42-year-old man after a woman was seriously injured in a stabbing during a reported robbery at a Northeast Portland restaurant. Kelso Red Lion Hotel on fire Saturday ...

A time domain reflectometer (TDR) measures reflections along a cable. It is similar in principle to radar. To measure those reflections, the TDR transmits an incident signal into the cable and watches ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A Massachusetts lawmaker is looking for answers from Verizon on the toxic lead exposure to workers in ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A Massachusetts lawmaker is looking for answers from Verizon on the toxic lead exposure to workers in telecommunications. In May, the National Institute for Occupational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey D-Mass., wants to know where Verizon’s old lead-sheathed telephone cables are and what ...

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey D-Mass., wants to know where Verizon’s old lead-sheathed telephone cables are and what the legacy phone company is doing to protect its workers and the public.

Verizon has defeated a lawsuit filed by a utility pole worker who claims that lead cables made him sick. A federal judge on Friday granted Verizon’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which sought class ...

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 ...

On a cloudy day in late October, Alyssa Shiel crouched on a narrow strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk of a neighborhood in inner Southeast Portland, plunging a small syringe-like probe ...