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December 15, 2008 Archives


Tonight: Catch RIC's jazz band winter concert

6:54 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Cranston youth football team coaches put on probation

6:36 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Ex-justice Flanders may seek Williams' seat on court

4:49 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Caprio: No R.I. money in alleged investment scheme

4:27 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Update: R.I. adds its 4 Electoral College votes / Photo

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By News staff    Email

Journal photo / Connie Grosch Rhode Island's four electors are sworn in before casting their vote in the House Chamber today. From left, the......



R.I. shares in $1 million education grant

3:44 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By News staff    Email

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......



Hasbro drops suit against online version of Scrabble

3:31 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Trial starts for gang member in fake home invasion plot

2:53 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By News staff    Email

By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- The trial of Souvanh Keosouvanh, nabbed for an alleged role in a fictitious home invasion, began......



2 Providence clubs, locations of homicides, shut down

2:19 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Comments (2)
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......



Providence unions seek order to halt health-care change

1:50 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Comments (8)
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......



Mattel to pay R.I., other states for lead-tainted toys

1:45 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



R.I.'s Whitehouse touring Iraq with other senators

1:24 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Henry Fellela, legislator's husband, faces fraud charges

1:24 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

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......



E-Z Pass lanes open tomorrow on the Pell Bridge

12:51 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Maria Armental    Email

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......



Cicilline seeks hearing on nightclub after murder

12:37 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Cranston youth football team faces discipline after fight

12:14 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



R.I. hearing postponed in song-swapping lawsuit

12:11 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Update: Gas drops 7 cents, hits lowest mark since 2004

11:51 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



National Grid repairs gas leak in Pawtucket

11:09 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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,......



Much of Mass. still recovering from ice storm

10:44 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By News staff    Email

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......



Erosion dooms building, not memories, in Matunuck

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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......



R.I. teen moved to Finnish hospital after attack in Russia

8:21 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Narragansett man to be arraigned in roommate's death

8:02 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



R.I.'s electors to make it official for Obama today

7:26 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Today in history: The Bill of Rights

7:02 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Warm now, but colder rainy weather on its way

7:01 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......



Today's front page: A well-time presidential duck

7:00 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
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......