A longtime educator says her students make eye contact more often, participate in class more and let their personalities shine now that her school has barred phones from classrooms.

This story originally appeared on The 19th. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Not a school day goes by without Anthony Colla seeing a student on a phone in class. The sight is so frequent that the language and literature teacher at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High in Los Angeles deliberates carefully before asking kids to

Thousands reported issues with Verizon phone services Monday morning. The company says the issue has been resolved.

A Verizon outage was reported by more than 7,000 customers on Monday morning, according to DownDetector. Here's what to know.

The issue first began at about 4:30 a.m. Monday, but reports began decreasing about an hour later. Fewer than 300 customers were still reporting issues as of 3 p.m. Verizon said in an email that the disruption only lasted a few minutes.