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December 15, 2008 Archives
6:54 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Rhode Island College's jazz band winter concert is tonight at 8 in Providence. Catch the performance at Sapinsley Hall in the Nazarian Center. Admission is......
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6:36 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Pop Warner Little Scholars today announced sanctions against Rhode Island's Edgewood Eagles Pop Warner Midget II football team, after a fight last week with a......
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4:49 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE - Former Supreme Court Justice Robert G. Flanders confirmed today that he is seriously thinking about making a bid to return to the state's......
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4:27 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Rhode Island's general treasurer issued a statement this afternoon saying the state's pension fund is safe "from any fallout" from the arrest of a New......
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3:46 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Connie Grosch Rhode Island's four electors are sworn in before casting their vote in the House Chamber today. From left, the......
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3:44 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island and three other New England states are forming a regional education partnership and have received a $1-million grant to reengineer high......
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3:31 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
NEW YORK -- Hasbro Inc. is dropping its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of the board game Scrabble. According to documents......
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2:53 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- The trial of Souvanh Keosouvanh, nabbed for an alleged role in a fictitious home invasion, began......
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2:19 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Providence's Board of Licenses today issued two cease-and-desist orders against the nightclubs that were the locations of the city's 12th and 13th homicides of the......
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1:50 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Unions for the city's teachers, police, firefighters and others are seeking a temporary restraining order against Providence's decision to change its health-care benefits......
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1:45 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
Associated Press NEW YORK -- Toy maker Mattel Inc. will pay $12 million to 39 states -- including Rhode Island -- to settle an investigation......
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1:24 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
WASHINGTON _ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is on a fact-finding tour of the Middle East, including his second visit to Iraq, his office said today. Whitehouse......
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1:24 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Journal staff writer The husband of state Rep. Deborah Fellela has been arrested in New Hampshire and charged with a felony count......
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12:51 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Richard Salit Journal Staff Writer It's unlikely anyone will go out of their way to cross the Pell Bridge tomorrow, but that doesn't make......
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12:37 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Mayor David N. Cicilline announced he will go before the city Licensing Board this afternoon to seek an emergency hearing about the Level......
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12:14 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
By Mike McDermott projo.com staff Pop Warner Little Scholars, the nation's largest youth football organization, has barred the Dorchester Eagles from regional and national postseason......
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12:11 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- A federal judge has postponed a hearing over whether two Rhode Island parents must surrender their computer to investigators seeking proof that their......
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11:51 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Gasoline prices in Rhode Island have dropped for the 13th straight week and have hit their lowest point in nearly five years, according to AAA......
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11:09 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PAWTUCKET -- National Grid workers this morning repaired a low-pressure natural gas leak on Webb Street, a spokesman for the utility company said. David Graves,......
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10:44 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Associated Press BOSTON -- More than 100,000 Massachusetts residents remained in the dark Monday as utility crews worked around the clock to restore electricity three......
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8:42 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Peter B. Lord Workers early this morning are tearing down the former Seaview recreation building off Matunuck Beach Road. Erosion is steadily......
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8:21 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
MOSCOW (AP) -- The mother of an American exchange student who was stabbed in Russia -- in what officials say may have been a racially......
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8:02 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- A Narragansett man accused of killing his roommate and longtime friend in August is to be arraigned today in Superior Court on......
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7:26 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By Steve Peoples and Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau The presidential inauguration has become the toughest ticket in town, but today's Electoral College ceremony......
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7:02 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
On this day in 1791, the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, took effect following ratification by Virginia. Read more......
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7:01 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE -- Temperatures today are expected to reach nearly 60 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. But the warm temperatures, and calm weather, will......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page features a story on President Bush's trip to Iran and Afghanistan, including photographs of a reporter throwing a shoe at the president......
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