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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Seattle police say a plane passenger contacted authorities as soon as his flight landed after he spotted a fellow traveler texting someone about sexually exploiting children. KCPQ-TV reports the passenger was flying on Monday from SeaTac, Washington, to San Jose, California, when he glanced over, read a man's texts and took pictures of the conversation...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington drivers will soon be prohibited from holding cellphones or other electronic devices while driving. The Olympian newspaper reports that Washington's new tougher, distracted driving law goes into effect July 23...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state House has approved a measure that would ban holding handheld devices while driving. The measure passed the Democratic-controlled chamber on a 63-35 vote Wednesday. It now heads back to the Republican-controlled Senate for concurrence on some changes made in the House...

ORIENT, Maine (AP) — Texting and driving? Not safe. Driving while taking a selfie? Even more not safe. Police in Maine say a man crashed his car while taking a selfie with his passengers. Authorities say several people were hurt when 29-year-old Jordan Toner lost control of the vehicle he was driving with seven passengers...

Have you ever had trouble texting and walking? I don't know about you, but when I text and walk I always think I'm going to run into something.

The city of Yakima is collaborating with the State Traffic Safety Commission to make Yakima roads safer. Mayor Micah Cawley says the city is receiving upwards of $200,000 in state grant money to make changes to problem areas in the city...

An administrative law judge upheld the 12-month suspension of East Valley P.E. teacher Michele Taylor’s teaching certificate following allegations of inappropriate contact with students. In a decision issued August 21st, a Yakima judge ruled Michele Taylor could not return to the job for the 2012-2013 school year...

Talking and Texting while driving. It's been against the law for two years, yet drivers still do it every day in Yakima and many other cities in the state. Yakima Police say everyone knows or should know by now that using a cell phone behind the wheel is against the law...

We already know texting while driving is bad, but new research seems to indicate that even before kids are old enough to get behind the wheel, texting might have another downfall: it’s making their grammar worse.

The Daily Mail of London says that young people suffer gadget withdrawal when separated from their phones.