Eagar, AZ

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On Thursday, June 16, 2022, Mary Louise Lopez passed away at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Louise was born in Springerville, Ariz. on June 29, 1956, was raised in Monrovia, Calif., and later relocated to Beaumont. With family members by her side, she went home to her Lord and...

Within minutes of losing cellphone and internet service, residents in a remote swath of Arizona were quick to come up with theories about why. "I think it's the government. I don't trust them," said one resident in the tiny town of Eagar, a four-hour drive northeast of Phoenix on the Arizona-New Mexico state line.

Communication outages are part of life in a rugged part of eastern Arizona, but this one lasted for days and one death was linked to the blackout.

Arizona congressman Tom O'Halleran sent letters to both the state Attorney General's Office and the Federal Communications Commission calling for investigations into whether the phone and internet service outages that impacted thousands of people in rural Arizona last weekend were the result of negligence by Frontier Communications.   “‘Unacceptable’ does not begin to describe the situation that...

ST JOHNS, AZ — Multiple officials call for state and federal agencies to investigate an outage that left some Arizona communities without the ability to call 911 for days. It all started when a fiber cable was damaged. Investigators believe it was done intentionally. The worry and fear for...

APACHE AND NAVAJO COUNTIES (3TV/CBS 5) - A major development in the Frontier Communications failure in Apache and Navajo counties — a congressman has now called on the Arizona Attorney General to investigate the situation for possible negligence by Frontier because it left people in danger and unable to call 911 for days. And this isn’t the first time it has happened.

A 74-year-old man in rural St. Johns, just west of the New Mexico border, died Sunday on the way to a hospital after two bystanders were unable to call 911 — or anyone else — for some time due to a service outage before they finally flagged down an ambulance, authorities said.  The death occurred during a...