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Head to Brown University for a sonic experience tonight. Known as "Automatic Nervous Response," the ongoing project is said to explore extreme states of body......
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6:17 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- At least 500 members of the city's six unions turned out Wednesday evening to protest a change in their health care benefits. The......
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5:49 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Journal staff writer PAWTUCKET -- The mother of a 22-day-old baby girl hospitalized Saturday with a fractured skull and facial injuries has......
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5:30 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Journal Staff Writer SOMERSET, Mass. -- A long-running controversy over property once owned by a former town official came to......
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5:01 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By RICK MASSIMO Journal pop music writer The University of Rhode Island's Songs of Social Justice series was one of the highlights of the 2006......
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4:52 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The Carcieri administration has given its chief of legal services, Louis DeQuattro, a new title and a $33,183 raise. In response to inquiries,......
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4:45 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darrigan this afternoon dismissed ethics charges against former Senate President William V.......
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4:43 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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JOHNSTON -- Fifteen acres of Mathewson Farm will be preserved now that the state Department of Environmental Management has obtained the land's development rights. The......
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4:38 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Until recently, Rhode Island treated its chronic homeless population much like other states. It placed each person in a night-to-night shelter on the condition they......
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4:34 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Felice J. Freyer Journal Medical Writer The Rhode Island Free Clinic, in South Providence, unable to meet the demand, is asking primary care doctors......
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4:22 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Journal staff writer WOONSOCKET -- The police have arrested a 19-year-old Woonsocket man in connection with the killing of 22-year-old Robert Jones,......
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3:47 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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DURHAM, N.H. -- The U.S. Forest Service and state agencies across the Northeast say residents can help protect forests by buying and burning only local......
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3:44 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Test results today show total coliform bacteria is still present in one building at the University of Rhode Island's main campus in Kingston. With that......
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3:42 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Journal staff writer CENTRAL FALLS -- A 24-year-old woman is being held at the Adult Correctional Institutions after she allegedly punched a......
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3:23 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Journal staff writer COVENTRY -- Myles Marino, a second-grader at Tiogue Elementary School, closely surveys his list of choices. Each one had......
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2:43 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- Members of six city unions opposing a plan to change the city's health care benefit manager are......
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2:18 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Steve Szydlowski Rhode Island College sophomore Aaron Buckley voices his displeasure over tuition hikes at Rhode Island College before he and others......
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2:05 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The American Civil Liberties Union's Rhode Island chapter asserts in a federal lawsuit that the city of East Providence violated former state Sen. Michael J.......
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1:37 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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LITTLE COMPTON -- A Little Compton officer whose police gear was stolen last week while off duty in Portsmouth has been suspended without pay for......
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12:50 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- At the rate recession-wary Rhode Islanders are buying Lottery tickets and playing their favorite video slot machines, the state's gambling receipts will fall......
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12:09 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Frieda Squires Kris Maynard, 20, left, and Danny Descosiers, 19, right, special needs students at Hope High School, get help from......
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12:07 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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WARWICK -- Jurors in the retrial of James Richardson, accused of murdering Margaret Duffy-Stephenson of Warwick in 2005, today are hearing a police detective talk......
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11:57 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island is joining six other Northeast states in petitioning the EPA to control out-of-region mercury emissions that contaminate fish, the state Department......
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11:13 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Bishop Tomas J. Tobin issued this week guidance to Rhode Island Catholics on how to vote in the upcoming elections. In his weekly......
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11:11 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- In a state with a growing percentage of residents who are obese or overweight, Governor Carcieri this morning recognized five innovative programs that......
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9:48 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A 31-year-old Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to taking part in a $1.8 million credit card scam at Foxwoods Resort Casino, federal......
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9:32 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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LOWELL, Mass. -- A Lawrence, Mass., barber who killed one man and wounded two others during an alcohol-fueled argument in a moving van over a......
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9:26 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island College students plan to rally today to protest tuition hikes and the state's funding cuts to higher education. The rally is......
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8:37 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence has launched a review of a Woonsocket parish's finances after the parish council questioned what......
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8:07 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE -- Today is day two of the state's semiannual Revenue & Caseload Estimating Conference when budget officers and fiscal advisers (and guest economists) discuss......
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7:38 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The state Department of Transportation today is opening a temporary on-ramp from Blackstone Street to Route 95 south accessible from Allens Avenue. The......
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7:16 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
An accident has blocked the two right lanes on Route 95 north at Exit 27 for downtown Pawtucket, according to the state Traffic Management Center.......
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7:02 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
On this day in 1929, stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out. Read more......
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7:01 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE -- Cloudy and breezy. Not bad compared to yesterday. Highs will top near 48 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. We'll still see......
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7:00 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page features coverage of two key state Senate races. One is the Senate District 17 race between incumbent Democrat Joseph A. Montalbano, the......
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