A Jan. 22 Buncombe County briefing offered updates on winter storm preparedness and resources. Here's what you need to know.

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When Kendrick Constant glanced at his phone one afternoon in 2018, he noticed dozens of text messages rolling in from a cluster of retired fifty-something investment bankers trading jokes and ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

BRENTWOOD, Calif. (KGO) -- A retired businessman from the Bay Area still devastated by the loss of his wife, thought he found new love. Instead, he was hooked by a cruel scam that took $1 million.

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

The Richmond Police Department shared on social media that they have received reports of a new text message scam. The messages often appear to come from a loved one claiming their phone is broken and ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Oct 5 (Reuters) - Space tech firm Firefly Aerospace (FLY.O), opens new tab will acquire national security technology company SciTec for about $855 million, the company said on Sunday, just months ...

Phone scams have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. One-ring calls and other phone scams target millions of Americans each year, and the tactics used by scammers evolve quickly. New ...

Columbus's 614 area code, overlaid with 380 in 2016, is projected to run out of numbers by 2061. Technology, rather than population growth, is the primary driver of area code exhaustion. The 614 area ...

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