Snow pulls down power, phone lines

Wet and heavy snow caused widespread power and phone outages Tuesday.In Columbia and Montour County, lines to reach emergency crews went dead because of a Verizon outage, and power was cut to thousands.PPL Spokeswoman Tracie Witter said 2,350 customers in Columbia County and 1,641 in Montour County were without power Tuesday afternoon.Those figures do not include the borough

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