Q: I need to be able to monitor my child's text messages. Do you know any sites (pay or free) that would enable me to do that? - Mike

A freshman state lawmaker is hoping to force motorists to give their thumbs a rest — at least while they’re behind the wheel. Rep. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, wants to create the crime of “DWT,” or driving while texting.

CHICAGO - E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder - a parent, teacher or a boss - or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favor to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Those unwanted text messages for everything from special sales to dating services could soon be a thing of the past.

Navajo Elementary School was locked down for an hour on Monday before Scottsdale police arrested a Phoenix woman on suspicion of making threats after she text-messaged her ex-husband that she was going to harm their child, a first-grader at the school.

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones.

Identity thieves are taking advantage of the modern text-message culture, and pioneering a new way to scam unsuspecting consumers.

What was your favorite part of the text message era? Shouldn’t be hard to come up with a few, since in the college sports world (including basketball) it lasted six months.

PHOENIX - After a man robbed a bank near Northern Arizona University and fled toward the school last Friday, cell phones buzzed around campus.

ASU sent text messages Thursday for the first time to notify students and employees about an emergency when a kitchen fire torched the Memorial Union’s eastern end.

Mesa has backed off the issue of banning text messaging while driving. The Transportation Advisory Board on Tuesday voted down a move to create an ordinance similar to one in Phoenix, which will be enforced starting Friday.

Keaton Kristick's cell phone buzzed with regularity throughout his senior football season at St. Mary's High School and into the winter months. The buzz didn't indicate the arrival of traditional phone calls, but text messages — short, electronically transmitted memos that can be sent by college coaches to prospects with virtually no limit.

Keaton Kristick's cell phone buzzed with regularity throughout his senior football season at St. Mary's High School and into the winter months. The buzz didn't indicate the arrival of traditional phone calls, but text messages — short, electronically transmitted memos that can be sent by college coaches to prospects with virtually no limit.

Cheers, answers to trivia questions, and maybe even a few marriage proposals will bombard the video board at Sun Devil Stadium this fall, straight from the fans’ cell phones.

Arizona judges handed a significant ruling Tuesday for cell phone users, saying companies can’t use computers to send out thousands of text messages to drum up business.

Cheers, answers to trivia questions, and maybe even a few marriage proposals will bombard the video board at Sun Devil Stadium this fall, straight from the fans’ cell phones.

Cheers, answers to trivia questions, and maybe even a few marriage proposals will bombard the video board at Sun Devil Stadium this fall, straight from the fans’ cell phones.

The way state lawmakers figure it, it's annoying enough to get an unwanted text message.

DALLAS — The NBA has released its All-Star ballot and is allowing fans to vote by text messaging for the first time.

Discount Cab is rolling out a new service that lets Arizona residents send the company a text message with a pickup address and instantly reserve a ride.