Texting

While most traffic violations in Maine carry smaller fines, these seven different violations could cost you $500 or more.

If you need help deciphering your Maine teen's fresh new lingo, one local woman has got you covered.

Even though the law to be hands-free has been on the books for a year and a half, police are still seeing people on the road and on their phones.

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On top of that, she was allegedly under the influence

I might have been the last person on earth to upgrade my old flip phone (which was next to impossible to text on) to a new, smarter phone. So I get the texting thing now. I can honestly say I have never texted while driving. I a...

A couple of years ago a new word was invented to describe how cell phone users snub someone because of their phone. The word is ‘phubbing’ (fub ing).

The Augusta Police Department, in partnership with the Bureau of Highway Safety, is going to be conducting patrol activities throughout the city focusing on distracted driving.

In New Jersey, a lawmaker has proposed a bill that would make it illegal to be texting while walking in public. If the bill is passed, it would carry a $50 fine or up to 15 days in jail.

You see it all the time, people walking and texting. Not paying attention to where they are going bad things can happen. Walk into traffic, walk into a pole or slam into someone else. China is trying solve the problem.

The world’s fastest texter is 17 year old Marcel Fernandes Filho from Brazil with a time 18.19 seconds. He beat the previous mark of 18.44 seconds to take the crown. He holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest typing of a text using a mobile device.

Several new laws are now on the books that will effect drivers in Maine. One of the new laws that went into effect of Wednesday, will crack down on texting and driving.

It doesn't matter which way we spin it; breaking up stinks. (Unless, of course, you're the breaker-upper, in which case it's like a cause for celebration.) Either way, cutting the relationship cord has gotten a bit easier ever since text messaging hit the scene. As it turns out, break up texts can be hilarious.

Have you ever seen somebody share their phone number publicly (on Craigslist maybe, or one of those homemade ads for "computer lessons" on the subway) and thought to yourself "I should totally prank this guy"? You haven't? Oh, uh ... neither have we. Ever. Clearly -- we're not monsters. But the person behind Textastrophe is!

Being a teenager is a perilous time in one's life as a not-quite fully developed brain will cause the teen to make all kinds of questionable decisions. Now thanks to a new phenomenon called sleep-texting, the teenager can even make these bad decisions while they are catching z's.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I'll admit that. Sometimes when I THINK I do the right thing, it's not always. I should have done something different this morning with a text I received.