Smartphones aren’t cheap, but for many of us, they’ve become essential. We use them for work, communication, information, entertainment, and even paying bills. If you need a smartphone and a wireless ...

Sandra Ritter with her son William celebrating her birthday at their Largo home in 1997. courtesy of Sandra Ritter Sandra Ritter hasn’t seen her only son in eight years. He’s incarcerated at Apalachee ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — The Cook County Sheriff’s Office ...

MARSHALL - Cynthia Wheeler is a Marshall resident and Lifeline program participant who said she uses the phone provided to her by Safelink Wireless when the bills for her regular cell phone are too ...

A push is growing in Massachusetts for reforms to a program that provides inmates with unlimited, free phone calls, an initiative that put Bay State taxpayers on the hook for about $12.5 million last ...

Julie Maestas didn’t know what she was going to do. Maestas, 48, lives at Camp Resolution in North Sacramento and has a Lifeline phone, which are typically free or low-cost from the government. The ...

NYU professor motivated Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to make changes. As students at John L. Colbert Middle School in Fayetteville, Arkansas, attended the first day of school in August, principal ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Martin Luther King. Jr. Middle School is the first of six Richmond schools to go phone-free during the school day as part of a pilot program. Upon arrival, students come inside ...