Sale of Verizon's landlines may mean new era of communications for state

Yes, you can hear them now, but come next year Verizon officials say that could change for some customers.

The company has no intention of pulling its wireless operations out of West Virginia, so its thousands of cell phone customers likely won't notice any changes in service. But Verizon is planning to sell all its landlines in the state to Frontier Communications, a New York-based company that bills itself as one of the nation's largest independent telecommunications providers...