Cable rupturedisrupts service LINCOLN - Approximately 4,300 Verizon customers in the Central and southern Illinois areas were without long distance telephone and high-speed Internet service Wednesday after a fiber cable was accidently cut near Virden, south of Springfield.

By David Wethe, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jun. 25--TiVo has become both a lifesaver and a vice for Bill Kula and his family. That well-known brand of digital video recorder is so loved by his two daughters, ages 3 and 6, that they don't want to watch anything else.

By Brad Hem, Houston Chronicle May 24--New options for Internet and telephone service are coming to Baytown, Mont Belvieu and portions of Galveston County. Verizon is launching its digital fiber-optic FiOS service in League City on Friday.

By Melissa Followell, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Oct. 14--EAST MANATEE -- When George Garnett stepped into the backyard of his Hidden Meadows home Thursday, he saw something he had never seen in his seven years living there. The 3-acre pond behind his home was filled with dead fish.

By Betty Lin-Fisher, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Aug. 12--Verizon Communications has raised the rates on some add-on features a little more than a month after state regulators gave it some pricing flexibility.