Making contact with someone half a world away serving their country is the greatest gift one can receive, and it is the reason for the “Cell Phones for Soldiers” program, which provides free cell phones and minutes to families of soldiers.

The ’80s had the cola wars, but the new millennium has the phone wars. />The choices when picking out a phone plan can be dizzying.

In short, what Skype offers is an alternative telephone service to the one that’s bundled with iPhones and absent from iPod touches: you create a free Skype account, locate contacts on the service, add them to your buddy list, and wait for them to do the same. Once they’ve been added, and assuming you’re on a Wi-Fi network, you can do instant messaging-style text chats with them, or ...

GARY, Ind. (AP) — The mayor of Gary has received $57,980 in back pay from the local sanitary district after a State Board of Accounts review found he had been underpaid.

It’s just past 3 p.m. on Monday, and a groggy Joel Zimmerman can barely muster a ‘hello’ into his cell phone. Understandable, really. The hottest name in Canadian dance music just had a killer Sunday night.[...]

By Sudeep Agarwala STAFF WRITER Time seems to get distorted in musical history. Somehow, the past two hundred years of music are still very much with us in many different ways. At the very basic, instrumental level, Mozart’s piano is different from the one we play today, Haydn’s horn is much more curmudgeonly and Bach took on the challenge of writing six suites for the curious new cello. But ...

American authorities are planning a broad new campaign to choke off the prime source of financing for terrorists in Afghanistan, sending in dozens of federal drug enforcement agents to disrupt the country's massive opium trade and the money that streams to the Taliban and al-Qaida.

It’s just past 3 p.m. on Monday, and a groggy Joel Zimmerman can barely muster a ‘hello’ into his cell phone. Understandable, really. The hottest name in Canadian dance music just had a killer Sunday night.[...]

The Iowa attorney general's office confirms it will ask the state's Supreme Court to review a ruling that throws out hours of videotaped statements made by a Boone woman accused of helping plot to kill her husband.

John Cena wrestles with wooden acting and a bad script.