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WASHINGTON - Negotiators for Verizon Communications and two unions representing 78,000 phone company workers met with federal mediators Saturday as a midnight strike deadline neared.
Service in 12 states in the Northeast and mid Atlantic and the District of Columbia could be affected if workers walk off the job at the nation's largest local phone company.
The current three-year contracts expire at 12:01 a.m. today.
Woman accused in hoax phoned tips to FBIPORTLAND, Ore. - The woman accused of calling an Indiana couple and falsely claiming to be their long-lost daughter had been an FBI informant.
Donna L. Walker, being held on $100,000 bail in Kansas, would initiate calls to authorities about child pornographers, the FBI confirmed Saturday.
She posed as a young girl to snare child pornographers on the Internet and turn them over to authorities in Arizona, California, Kentucky and Washington, the Oregonian reported Saturday.