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Journal photo / Bob Thayer Brock Reeve, left, the half-brother of the late actor and stem-cell advocate Christopher Reeve, and U.S. Rep. James Langevin......
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5:22 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- A Superior Court judge has allowed the City of Providence and Mayor David N. Cicilline to interverne in a court case over......
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WARWICK, R.I. -- Lawyer Robert Ciresi is challenging the sobriety tests that Johnston police gave his client, former state Sen. Gregory J. Acciardo, who faces......
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4:49 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- After the Verizon worker pulled into a handicapped parking space on Greene Street this morning, she told the police she was using her......
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3:43 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- A federal grand jury has charged Rocco DeSimone, of Johnston, with conning an inventor and defrauding investors with fraudulent claims about marketing three......
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3:31 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A group of activists is pushing Rhode Island to join a handful of other states that allow adopted children to get......
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3:11 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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A United Way effort to battle homelessness in Rhode Island got a boost this week from CVS Caremark Corp., which donated $50,000 to the nonprofit......
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3:03 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy The Newport Ancient Order of Hibernians Pipes and Drums march through Brick Marketplace during the annual Newport St.......
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2:17 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Kristen DeSilva of Tiverton holds a flier of her missing father, Joseph DeSilva, 52, who has not been seen since Tuesday. Providence Journal photo /......
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1:55 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Edwin Dilone of Providence has been identified by the police as the 17-year-old boy who was shot and critically wounded as he......
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1:00 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Angela Gerundio, with her lawyer, William Murphy, right, at her sentencing today by Superior Court Judge Edwin Gale. By......
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12:34 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Email
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- The Town Council has agreed to hold another public hearing next month to hear the latest update on Vision Appraisal's attempt to......
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12:07 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Talia Buford Journal Staff Writer WARWICK -- The Warwick man charged after a hit and run accident in September remained free on $5,000 bail......
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11:58 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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A former associate dean at Roger Williams University was charged with stalking for sending derogatory and inflammatory letters to faculty and staff at the Bristol......
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11:18 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Jonathan N. Xavier, 25, the Pawtucket barber who interfered with a basketball game between Providence College and Marquette University in which......
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9:35 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples and Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, RI -- Mayor David N. Cicilline has asked the federal government to block what......
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9:20 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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They were deployed in November of 2007 to the war zone in Iraq. Sixteen months later the men and women of the U.S. Army Reserve......
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6:48 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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A year ago today: PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One person is killed and two others seriously injured when struck by an Amtrak Acela train just north......
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6:38 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's just 25 degrees at this early hour, but it should warm up today, into the upper 30s, according to the National......
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6:37 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
The lead story in today's Journal reports that federal stimulus funds won't come close to rescuing Rhode Island's most cash-strapped school districts. In other......
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6:50 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has backed former Senate President William V. Irons in a lawsuit challenging the......
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6:37 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The local teachers union president said this afternoon that a School Committe lawsuuit filed earlier today is "simply another attempt [of......
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6:35 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two fires that broke out within an hour of each other, one at 406 Potters Ave. in South Providence and one at......
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6:06 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Kris Craig PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It took Dominique Dawes a long time to feel comfortable in front of a crowd......
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5:43 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Neil Downing Email
People who call Rhode Island's unemployment call center wind up on hold for more than an hour on average before they can file claims for......
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5:21 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- A man serving 27 years in prison for raping a college student and burglary is seeking to get out of jail early. David......
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4:44 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The Pawtucket woman serving six years for driving drunk in the crash that killed 16-year-old Samantha Beaudette today withdrew her request for early......
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4:40 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- State representatives officially introduced a bill that reflects Governor Carcieri's proposed budget this afternoon. The bill......
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4:35 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The man whose skeletal remains were found Saturday in the Big River Management Area in West Greenwich had a prison record, it was......
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4:22 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy Providence Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation detectives work the scene of the shooting of a 17-year-old male in......
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4:10 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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SUWANNEE COUNTY, Fla. -- A light aircraft crashed Tuesday, killing a Rhode Island woman and seriously injuring the pilot. Linda Sturtevant, 58, of Portsmouth, was......
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3:57 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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A program to help low-income residents in Rhode Island pay their energy bills and improve the energy efficiency of their homes will get a $44-million......
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3:39 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal file photo / Bill Murphy Russell Spears Sr. is seen in June, 2008. CHARLESTOWN -- Russell G. Spears Sr., the Narragansett Indian mason......
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2:50 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Bryant University held its 12th annual Women's Summit Thursday, titled this year "Champions in a Changing Environment." This morning,......
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2:15 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and a trade association that represents more than 500 grocery stores in the Bay State today pledged to work......
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The PC Friars have lost to the Louisville Cardinals, 73-55, in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament. The result probably ends PC's NCAA Tournament......
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2:01 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The federal government has launched a criminal investigation into the way Hiu Lui "Jason'' Ng, an immigrant detainee, was handled at......
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1:17 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
Cranston firefighters vent the roof of a home at 45 Red Cedar Drive, Cranston, before noon, after a neighbor smelled smoke. Watch the video Providence......
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12:56 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Channing Gray Email
Citing a fall off in ticket sales and the slumping economy, Providence Black Repertory Company has canceled next month's production of August Wilson's Gem......
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12:54 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
Shaw's Supermarkets is offering customers $20 or $30 of free groceries with the purchase of grocery gift cards worth $250 or $300 as part of......
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12:02 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Katherine Gregg Journal staff writer Ken McKay, a one-time top aide and campaign manager for Governor Carcieri, has been chosen as the executive director......
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11:57 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Providence College Friars and the Louisville Cardinals are minutes away from the start of their Big East quarterfinal game at Madison Square Garden. We'll......
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11:52 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Michael Janusonis Email
Kevin Spacey, star of the films The Usual Suspects and American Beauty and artistic director of London's Old Vic Theatre, will receive the National Pell......
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11:30 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- A 14-year-old was charged Wednesday with felony assault after she got into a fight with an 11-year-old girl on the school bus......
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10:35 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
Anne L. Coyne, a 38-year-old woman from Marshfield, Mass., has been identified as the woman struck and killed by a high-speed Amtrak train on Tuesday......
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8:38 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By 9 o'clock tonight, both the Providence College Friars and the University of Rhode Island Rams could be virtually eliminated from contention for an NCAA......
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8:07 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Kathy Borchers MacKenzie, left. and Jasper, are 9-week-old Chihuahuas born without front legs. Debbie Fahrenholtz, who runs "Just a Touch Rescue"......
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7:58 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
As the state of Rhode Island is poised to get an estimated $37.6 million for dozens of projects from the federal spending bill, the......
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7:01 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We're looking at sunny days ahead, with temperatures warming up for the weekend. Today, expect a high around 41 degrees. Tomorrow, the......
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7:00 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
COVENTRY, R.I. -- A 48-year-old woman asleep in her burning house at 11 Knight St. was roused by a neighbor who banged on her door......
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6:46 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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A year ago today: NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- Some 52 blackout shades have been installed at The Towers, the town's seaside landmark, to let it become......
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6:57 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state legislature's Web siteis working again. The site had been down since Monday afternoon, due to what state officials called a......
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6:36 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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The police in the upstate New York city of Albany have charged a Providence woman with prostitution after she posted an invitation on Craigslist, the......
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6:06 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau The Senate this afternoon unanimously confirmed a new director for the Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals.......
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4:32 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham and Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- At 4:15 p.m., with the state House session already under way, Majority......
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4:28 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Providence Journal/Bob Breidenbach Patrick G. Coyle, standing in white shirt, gives a statement to the court and families of the crash victims in......
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3:47 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
WARWICK _ More than 80 students at Gorton Junior High School were given repeated opportunities to complete portions of state tests in a clear violation......
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3:31 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, RI -- With the General Assembly's Web site inoperable for the third day, a citizens advocacy group......
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3:30 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island is due for millions of dollars worth of "earmarks'' in the $410-billion spending bill, passed by the Senate Tuesday, that will......
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3:18 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The newly-appointed chairman of the Central Falls Detention Facility Corp. is questioning the more than $300,000 paid to the board's former......
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3:16 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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WOONSOCKET -- The city is considering trying to limit the types of jobs its firefighters can hold while they are off-duty, a lawyer for the......
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3:04 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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COVENTRY, R.I. -- Firefighters are battling a fire on a two-family house on Knight Street. The fire was reported just before 2:30 p.m. in the......
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2:59 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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The area in back of 170 Jefferson Blvd., in Warwick, this morning. Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers WARWICK, R.I. -- City police have......
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2:55 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE -- A hearing that had been scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in the Station nightclub fire civil cases has been postponed to March 24 at......
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2:44 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Bob Thayer Chris Wisseman, CEO of Deepwater Wind Holdings, listens to speakers Wednesday during a meeting of the Economic Policy Council......
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2:44 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- A developer has proposed the eradication of an unusually large area of wetlands to make way for an asphalt and concrete production......
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2:15 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A body found Saturday by a kayaker in a Westerly salt pond was that of Angelo Desantis, 60, of Batterson Ave. in......
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2:13 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Projo Sports staff They had to expend a lot of energy to do it, and they made a couple DePaul players look like big-time......
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2:02 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Woonsocket Police armed with search warrants raided three Walnut Hill Apartment units at 5 a.m. today, arresting seven people involved in a......
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1:47 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
Ralph R. Papitto and Roger Williams University, the school he used to lead as its board chairman, are taking aim at each other in lawsuits......
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12:45 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- A man on the list of the top 10 deadbeat dads in Massachusetts has been found at the Adult Correctional Institutions.......
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12:36 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
Buses will be detoured Saturday in Newport to accommodate the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, announced the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA). The bus......
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12:00 PM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Mary Murphy Lt. Mary Day, left, commanding officer of District 3 of the Providence Police Department., inspects the police cruiser that......
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11:50 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Rhode Island's unemployment rate remained by the far the highest in New England in January, according to a report released today by the federal Bureau......
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11:49 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Human remains found in West Greenwich have been tentatively identified, according to a Department of Health spokeswoman. Gerald Cox, a 47-year-old white male, has been......
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11:46 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tom Mooney Email
The Police in Tampa, Fla., say they saved a Rhode Island man who had lost his business, house and family in the recession, from jumping......
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11:31 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Rick Massimo Email
The Maceo Parker show scheduled for Tuesday at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, 79 Washington St., Providence, has been canceled. If you bought tickets, you can get......
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11:24 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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BURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- No one was injured during an early morning fire at that began at a garage and spread to a home at 323......
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10:48 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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BRISTOL, R.I. -- The police are investigating two home invasions that occurred within four days of each other. In both incidents, two men entered residences......
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9:29 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The heat is on at East Providence High School, despite concern expressed only hours ago at the School Committee meeting that......
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9:00 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Providence College Friars hope to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive when they play the DePaul Blue Demons at noon today in the second......
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8:03 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
In Rhode Island: A year ago today: SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Ocean explorer Robert Ballard and colleagues take a roomful of students on a virtual underwater......
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7:39 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
If we didn't know that economics was at the top of the news already, today's front page of The Providence Journal makes it abundantly......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rain is likely today both before 9 a.m. and after 11 a.m. Expect a high near 50 degrees, with south winds between......
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7:02 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Saying that his work in the Capital City is not finished, Mayor David N. Cicilline announced today that he will seek reelection in......
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5:32 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A bill that seeks to strip the Governor's power to appoint a replacement in the event of a mid-year U.S. Senate vacancy......
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5:14 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
BOSTON, Mass. -- A Rhode Island man was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury Monday for allegedly scheming to collect more than $12,000 in......
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4:48 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
WARWICK -- Twelve police officers from six Rhode Island communities were certified last week as crisis responder trainers. The three-day program, created by the state......
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4:40 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
BURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- A fire that broke out in a building owned by the Fish & Wildlife Divsiion of the state Department of Environmental Management......
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4:19 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri is trying to speed up payment of the $10 million the state has offered to the Station nightclub fire victims. He......
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3:42 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- A man and a woman face felony drug charges and another man faces felony weapons charges after they were arrested by Jamestown......
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3:33 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Email
Rhodes Technologies, a Coventry pharmaceutical manufacturer, says it wants to expand, but wants the town to first update its sewer plans to include it.......
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By Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, RI -- Governor Carcieri is leaning heavily on federal stimulus dollars to plug state budget deficits that exceed $860......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David Cicilline announced this afternoon that he will run again for mayor of the capital city, a move that takes him......
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By Rick Massimo Email
The Brown Concert Agency has announced the lineup for Spring Weekend, April 17-18, with rapper Nas at the top of the Saturday bill and indie-rock......
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By Karen Ziner Email
A "critical hardware failure" caused the Rhode Island General Assembly Web site to crash Monday at around 4 p.m., and is not expected to......
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By Mike McKinney Email
The saga of a Cadillac sold by a dealer to a Warwick woman as "brand new" after it had been in a wreck is taking......
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state DOT has reopened the eastbound travel lane of the Henderson Bridge connecting Providence and East Providence that was closed for......
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Journal photo / Sandor Bodo A Purim parade, hosted by the New England Rabbinical College, started and ended today in front of the Jewish......
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By Donita Naylor Email
Cranston, R.I. -- A Coventry couple who claimed their $200,000 prize from Saturday's PowerBall drawing today say they'll put the money in the bank, except......
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has proposed legislation that protects residents from identity theft by requiring businesses and government agencies to......
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12:34 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Kevin Dillon, who is struggling to keep passengers flying at T.F. Green Airport, will discuss the airport's challenges Wednesday at a meeting with Governor Carcieri's......
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By Paul Davis Journal Staff Writer Rhode Island had the smallest percentage of homeless people in the nation before the recession, according to a new......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- John Edwards, the former United States senator and presidential candidate, will be speaking at Brown University tonight. It will be one of......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The police are looking for a man driving a red, midsized SUV with Massachusetts plates who pulled up to a 9-year-old girl......
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Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Five of Rhode Island's top women leaders spoke this morning at a Greater Providence Chamber of......
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An April 23 fundraiser, involving L.A. Law stars Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, at the Met School in Providence, supports scholarships for the College Unbound......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, Joseph Schwantner, will be in residence at Brown UniversityThursday through Sunday. He will deliver a lecture about......
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SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- A Rhode Island man has been charged with raping a 6-year-old girl while visiting the child's family in Massachusetts. Leo Bertrand......
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WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Rhode Island State Police have recovered a billfold from the scene where skeletal remains were found Saturday in the Big River......
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- Governor Carcieri will reveal detailed plans this afternoon to close what may be the largest budget deficit in Rhode Island history. The......
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Congressman James R. Langevin will appear this morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss the future of embryonic stem cell research now that President Obama......
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BURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- Firefighters from the Harrisville Fire Districtand neighboring departments, including from Massachusetts, are at the scene of a fire in the vicinity of......
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A year ago today: SOUTH KINGSTOWN - High water, tides and heavy rain over the weekend cause Cards Pond to break through its dunes and......
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By Kate Bramson Email
Today's front page reports that North Providence is in a heap of financial trouble and convicted murderer Craig Price has been denied parole. Download......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- This past weekend's warm temperatures are history for now -- but so, too, is yesterday's rain. The National Weather Service reports today......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
EAST GREENWICH, RI -- The Town Council voted Monday night to postpone until March 23 consideration of a zoning amendment that would outlaw new private......
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6:47 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
JOHNSTON - A 21-year-old Providence man was charged with vandalism to a police cruiser Saturday after kicking out the cruiser's rear window after his arrest......
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6:40 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON _ Rebuking what he depicted as the Bush administration's "false choice between sound science and moral values,'' President Obama today lifted a ban......
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6:20 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE --The police charged a local man with stabbing another man in an altercation Sunday night behind Twins Pizza, 1000 Mineral Spring Ave. Glendon......
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5:31 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Facing shortfalls in state and local revenue -- particularly Governor Carcieri's proposed $3.5-million state aid cut -- and with projected spending overruns in both the......
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5:27 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A utility crew investigating reports of a gas leak on Westminster between Snow and Empire Streets were unable to pinpoint the leak's......
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5:25 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
MONTVILLE, CONN. -- A 20-year-old Barrington woman involved in a fatal car crash over the weekend in Connecticut is recovering at home with her parents.......
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4:54 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- A federal magistrate judge has granted lawyers time to continue negotiating a plea agreement in the case against Anthony M. "The Saint" St.......
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE -- The city's Board of Licenses today required that the Dunkin' Donuts Center hire a 15- or 16-member police detail for a concert......
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4:24 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
CRANSTON -- Fire broke out today in a house at 371 Garden City Drive that was undergoing renovation. Deputy Fire Chief Bernard Patenaude said the......
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3:57 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE -- A basement fire in a three-story tenement at 1582 Westminster St. today sent one firefighter to Rhode Island Hospital and left a......
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3:41 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
PROVIDENCE -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Rhode Island woman with making up a $1 billion client to attract real clients......
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3:03 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. _ The South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce announced that it will honor all local gift certificates despite the collapse last week of......
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1:51 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE -- Two teenage boys were charged with robbing a pizza deliveryman Sunday night -- taking steak and cheese sandwiches, a pizza, and the deliveryman's......
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By John Hill Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The state Parole Board unanimously rejected convicted murderer Craig C. Price's parole request this morning, the board's spokesman said. Matthew T.......
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1:11 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
From the Projo Sports Blog It is the fourth time that Baron has won the honor. All-conference honors were extended to Jimmy Baron (first team)......
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12:54 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PAWTUCKET _ The police are looking for a man who robbed the Sunoco station at 81 School St. at around 8 p.m. Sunday. A man......
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12:24 PM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WESTERLY, R.I. -- It could take a couple of days before the state Medical Examiner's Office can positively identify the body found Saturday by a......
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11:53 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
CRANSTON,R.I. -- One lucky Rhode Island Lottery player this weekend bought a winning $200,000 ticket in Saturday night's PowerBall drawing. The wining ticket was purchased......
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By Michael Janusonis Email
The Newport International Film Festival has partnered with New York's Museum of Modern Art to present a selection of films from this year's festival on......
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10:46 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The city's acting fire marshal has determined that icicles dripping water onto electrical wires caused the fire early last Wednesday morning under......
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10:35 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The price of gasoline in Rhode Island is unchanged for the second straight week, according to AAA Southern Rhode Island. The average price for a......
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9:12 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim Langevin will join with other public officials at the White House this morning as President Obama signs an executive order to......
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8:09 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- The state Medical Examiner's Office is working to identify what appeared to be the skeletal remains of a human body found......
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- A new study says the number of New Englanders who identify themselves as Catholic is on the decline. The American Religious Identification......
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7:39 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page reports that Governor Carcieri's tax-reform panel today will propose as much as $130 million a year in tax relief for individuals......
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7:35 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
By Kate Bramson and Cynthia Needham Journal staff writers PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two house fires last night that engulfed two vacant homes in Olneyville and......
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7:03 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
A year ago today: PROVIDENCE - The state Department of Health estimates that Rhode Island hospitals provided $26 million in unpaid-for health care in 2006......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It looks like a rough morning commute with heavy rain in the area, but at least the snow will hold off until......
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By Jack Khorey Email
CRANSTON, r.i. U.S. Senator Jack Reed will discuss Monday morning what he says is the need for passage of the Fiscal 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act......
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2:16 PM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
By Philip Marcelo and C. Eugene Emery Jr. Journal staff writers PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A three-alarm blaze apparently caused by a cigarette left in the......
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