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If you needed more proof that texting is on the rise, here's a stat for you: the average teenager sends over 3,000 texts per month. That's more than six texts per waking hour.

Just when you thought teens had enough ways to connect to Facebook and Myspace, along comes Microsoft with their new line of socially focused phones the Kin One and the Kin Two.

The state Senate this afternoon approved the final bill in a package of laws to ban texting while driving, but designated that fines go to support libraries -- rather than to eliminate some driver penalties as the House wants.

The only contact 15-year-old Wayne Treacy had ever had with 8th grader Josie Lou Ratley before allegedly beating her nearly to death Wednesday was a brief flurry of text messages earlier that day, Florida police say.

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is issuing Tuesday. "We want the drivers of big rigs and buses and those who share the ...

Officials say these people are walking a line between exercising free speech and breaking the law by helping immigration violators avoid detection.

The police department in Ontario, Calif., was sued after the chief read sexually explicit texts sent by officers. An appeals court sided with officers, saying they had an expectation of privacy.

The trucking industry says computers that connect drivers to dispatchers can be used safely and should be exempt from legislation.

Nearly one out of five U.S. drivers surveyed has read or sent a text message while behind the wheel, even though nearly all of the respondents in an AAA survey released on Friday considered such action unacceptable.

Four senators pushed for a bill Wednesday to ban texting while driving, a day after a study found that drivers who text while on the road are much more likely to have an accident than undistracted drivers.