Excavator says it cut Hastings phone conduit because line was m...

The mystery of the eight-hour phone outage has been mostly solved. The owner of a contracting company from Willow River, Minn., acknowledged that his workers accidentally cut a fiber-optic cable outside Hastings on Tuesday, disrupting landline and cellular phone service to about 14,800 lines for much of the day.

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The Hastings city council investigating something? Yeah, they are so competent. That's funny!