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Thomas J. Morgan Journal Staff Writer WARWICK -- Retired Chief Justice Frank J. Williams of the Rhode Island Supreme Court will deliver the commencement address......
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5:47 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE -- Brown University researchers have developed a way to slowly draw an individual strand of DNA through a microscopic pore so its genetic code......
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5:36 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Pawtucket police are looking for a woman whom a local woman says stabbed her Friday afternoon. Edwina Burton, 25, is being treated......
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4:51 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Chief Officer Shane Murphy, above right, gives a blow-by-blow of the Somali pirates' attack on the Maersk Alabama in an interview Friday morning with Journal......
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4:38 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- A teller manager at a local Sovereign Bank branch is accused of stealing more than $31,000 from customers' accounts and the bank's......
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4:33 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $44,250 in fines against a New Bedford, Mass. company that the agency has cited with 34......
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By Jennifer D. Jordan Email
PROVIDENCE -- Music legend Aretha Franklin and seven other well-known academic, business and humanitarian leaders are to receive honorary degrees at Brown University's 241st commencement,......
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4:24 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin Gedan Journal Staff Writer Drugmaker Amgen reported an 8-percent drop in sales in the first quarter of the year, blaming the performance on......
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4:20 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- A Warwick couple intervened in a robbery Thursday evening, and when it was all over a few minutes later three suspects......
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE -- The Police Department Friday asked the city Board of Licenses to suspend or revoke the liquor license of the Sportsman's Inn at 122......
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3:13 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
By Bill Malinowski Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE -- The American Civil Liberties Union Rhode Island Affiliate has urged the state's Congressional delegation to refrain......
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3:06 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Katrina McVeigh WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Two detectives have been assigned to revisit two cold cases, those of Katrina McVeigh, from 1992, and Megan A.......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- The investigation into the four-alarm blaze Thursday at New England Boatworks will last at least through early next week, as investigators have......
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3:04 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
Lisa Vernon-Sparks Journal Staff Writer WEST WARWICK -- An 8-year-old boy with Down syndrome apparently walked out of his school Wednesday unnoticed, and was gone......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The Pawtucket Police arrested a 16-year-old girl and two men from Massachusetts Thursday shortly after noon, when they are alleged to have......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Brown University Library and the John Carter Brown Library are among the 31 institutions partnering with the Library of Congress and......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
BURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- The Burrillville police have declared a rabies watch after a raccoon that died in the Laurel Hill section on Tuesday proved positive......
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1:07 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard Salit Email
It has easily been more than a decade since state officials first started talking about replacing the Sakonnet River Bridge. Now, with the span so......
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12:39 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
Journal file photo/ Ruben Perez A gondolier is reflected in the water and backlit by the fire during an earlier WaterFire. PROVIDENCE, R.I. --......
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12:34 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Journal staff writer WARWICK, R.I. -- District Court Judge Frank J. Cenerini found former state Sen. Gregory J. Acciardo guilty beyond a......
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12:28 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
The New York Times is reporting that a fingerprint found at the Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, where an exotic dancer was held at gunpoint......
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By John Hill Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal district court judge has set Thursday, April 30, as the day he will hear arguments on whether Rhode Island election......
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11:54 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- The West Warwick police say they believe both alcohol and excessive speed were contributing factors in a Thursday night crash that......
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11:53 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Email
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- In spite of the objections of nearly 700 residents, the Town Council Thursday voted to approve the way in which Vision Appraisal......
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11:14 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Several beautiful summery days are in store for Southern New England, and the region could hit record temperatures this weekend, according to......
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10:53 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Michael P. McKinney Journal staff writer CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- The list is growing of people who believe they unwittingly bought computers allegedly stolen from......
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10:00 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Gina Macris Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Roger Williams Medical Center Friday announced it has won $5.9 million to study how breast cancer patients' own cells can be modified......
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9:47 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WESTERLY, R.I. - - The Westerly Police arrested a Hopkinton man Thursday for the illegal sale of fire arms. The police charged Raymond Schmidt, 62,......
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By Jack Perry Email
SEEKONK, Mass. (AP) -- The first mate of the U.S.-flagged ship hijacked by Somali pirates earlier this month says he made it through the ordeal......
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page reports on the fire at New England Boatworks in Portsmouth. Rhode Island employers will have to pay more in taxes to......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
A year ago today: A Providence man who was charged last year with spitting into the face of a teacher at Hope High School is......
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6:51 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state police have released new details in the arrest of state Rep. Raymond J. Sullivan Jr., D-Coventry, for drunken driving. A......
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6:34 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Companies claiming to sell extended automobile warranties by phone are probably scam artists seeking to get personal information from consumers, Attorney General......
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5:57 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Public Library Board of Trustees voted Thursday to begin transferring control of the neighborhood branch libraries to the city. Library......
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5:48 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Heavy smoke pours from Quonset huts damaged by fire at New England Boatworks. Journal photo / Frieda Squires PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- Firefighters are looking......
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5:39 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard Salit Email
Tours of Touro Synagogue, the oldest Jewish temple in the country, will resume this summer after a brief hiatus caused by financial pressures that led......
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5:35 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As construction pushes forward on the relocation of I-195, motorists can expect to see new access ramps opening up from the roadway's......
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5:18 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 22-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded no contest to setting fire to two......
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5:05 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Four young men were taken into custody after they were seen vandalizing the mayor's new hybrid SUV Thursday afternoon -- the second......
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5:05 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline said Thursday afternoon that in order to close a more than $16-million deficit in the current fiscal year,......
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4:59 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On Nov. 22, 2008, bouncers at Level II dance club ejected a man and told him not to come back. The man......
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4:43 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By G. Wayne Miller Email
Journal photo / John Freidah URI presidential candidate Robert Newman, center, of the University of Utah visits the school's Kingston campus, where he takes......
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4:31 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 74-year-old pharmacist was sentenced to a year in federal prison Thursday for illegally buying and selling prescription drugs and defrauding health......
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4:20 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
White House photo President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with Christopher Hill, American ambassador to Iraq, in the Oval Office. WASHINGTON......
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4:15 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jennifer D. Jordan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A New York Times best-selling author and advocate for creativity will speak at the Rhode Island School of Design's 126th commencement, which......
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2:40 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
EXETER, R.I. -- Teenagers visiting the abandoned state school that's said to be haunted were the victims of scary real-life encounters -- robberies, according to......
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2:28 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- The levels of hydrogen cyanide at the fire at New England Boatworks on Thursday were dangerous enough to send eight firefighters to......
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1:12 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline this morning gave details on Come Home to Providence, the city's new program to distribute $3.3 million in......
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12:54 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal judge sentenced a Coventry woman today to a year in prison for her role in a Nigerian mail fraud scheme......
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12:16 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline will provide details today of his plan to close a $16.1 million deficit in the current fiscal year.......
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12:05 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A prosecutor moved to dismiss the drunken driving case that police had pressed against a North Providence councilman, citing the suppression of......
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11:11 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bill Van Siclen Email
Sir Ken Robinson, a British-born author, educator and "cultural visionary," will give this year's commencement address at the Rhode Island School of Design. Robinson, who......
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11:04 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline and Donald Iannazzi, business manager of the Laborers International Union of North America Local 1033, have scheduled a......
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10:33 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By G. Wayne Miller Email
Robert D. Newman, one of three candidates to replace Robert L. Carothers as president of the University of Rhode Island, has been named in a......
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9:51 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- An owner of one of the private boats docked at the marina, Peter Bourke, had planned to leave on his 44-foot sailboat,......
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9:08 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- A Fall River man charged in connection with a fatal stabbing of another man in what police are calling a......
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7:50 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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After a lot of rain this week, nicer weather is on the way. There's still a slight chance of showers before 9 a.m., the National......
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page features a report that a state Senate committee has approved a bill to allow licensed dispensaries to grow and sell marijuana. The......
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7:09 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three adults and four children escaped a house fire at 52 Sussex St. without injuries around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. However, the Red......
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7:00 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The tap water pumped from North Kingstown's 10 wells is among the best-tasting in the nation, says......
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6:43 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Faced with an overflow crowd, the Town Council on Wednesday evening postponed its hearing into Mayor Charles A. Lombardi's proposal to......
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6:01 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A special legislative commission formally unveiled its proposal to give educators in the state's nursing schools an annual $3,500 tax credit, an......
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5:58 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Senate committee on Health & Human Services unanimously approved Wednesday afternoon a bill to allow licensed dispensaries or "compassion centers" to......
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5:30 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are asking city license regulators to revoke the liquor license of Level II, a downtown dance club. The proprietors of......
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5:23 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Rick Massimo Email
New Festival Productions LLC released on Wednesday the finalized lineup for George Wein's Jazz Festival 55, adding some artists to the bill as well as......
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5:17 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
A fire broke out Wednesday afternoon at 100 Red Barn Lane, East Greenwich. Photo curtesy of Lisa Boucher Bowen By Donita Naylor Journal staff......
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4:55 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Sullivan WARWICK, R.I. -- State police on Wednesday charged state Rep. Raymond J. Sullivan Jr., D-Coventry, with drunken driving, saying the Rhode Island House......
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4:47 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city has taken another step toward making critical capital improvements to its wastewater treatment facility. The Crest Avenue plant......
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4:46 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A local man has been charged with domestic felony assault, domestic disorderly conduct and felony possession of firearms, according to the police.......
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4:32 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Pawtucket man has been charged with assaulting Deputy Police Chief Paul J. Kennedy in an apparent road-rage incident in Cranston......
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4:27 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Peter Lord Email
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New England office celebrated Earth Day today by recognizing one individual and four organizations from Rhode Island with its......
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3:45 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ninety four Rhode Island lawyers are facing suspension from practice because they have not paid their bar association dues. They include the......
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3:11 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- On Thursday the Coventry/West Warwick Wildcats Special Olympic team will host a ziti and meatball dinner fundraiser. The dinner runs from......
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1:47 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By Kate Bramson and Amanda Milkovits Journal staff writers and the Associated Press WARWICK, R.I. -- The police chief and the attorney general's office said......
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1:34 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- Two workers received electrical shocks on Wednesday when the boom of a crane came close enough to power lines to attract current,......
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1:07 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
PROVIDENCE R.I. -- Rhode Island led the country in the percentage of children, ages six months to 23 months, immunized with the influenza vaccine during......
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12:46 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man will continue serving a 55-year state prison sentence for the knifepoint rape of a woman in Lincoln, after the Rhode......
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12:30 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. - It looks like the School Committee may not have to drastically cut back its sports programs and gifted program after all.......
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12:18 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Robert Legacy, Cumberland High School's director of information technology -- arrested with his son for the theft of 18 computers from the......
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12:09 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline's administration announced today that the city will begin doling out $3.3 million in federal money to purchase, repair,......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
BOSTON -- The Coast Guard said Wednesday that a helicopter air crew hoisted an injured crewmember from a Point Judith fishing vessel 90 miles southeast......
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee and M.J. Rosenberg, director of policy analysis for Israel Policy Forum, will speak about "Peace Prospects in the......
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11:38 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
CRANSTON, RI -- An argument between two residents of a homeless shelter ended in a stabbing, the Rhode Island State Police reported on Wednesday. Lt.......
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11:29 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced that some traffic lanes on the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge will be closed Thursday and Friday......
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10:59 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin of Rhode Island has cosponsored a resolution -- expected to pass the House shortly -- that praises the......
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9:54 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I., -- A Pawtucket lawmaker will mark Earth Day with a resolution encouraging households and businesses to turn off their lights between 11 a.m.......
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By Linda Borg Email
BARRINGTON, R.I.-- After days of being the target of Internet and talk radio vitriol, John Place says his son was wrong to allow teenagers......
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9:06 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) -- Woonsocket residents should brace for water rate increases of up to 40 percent over the next five years. Consultants told the......
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8:39 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) -- Mystic Seaport, one of Connecticut's top tourist attractions, has laid off 18 more employees before the summer travel season. That is......
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7:25 AM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As Earth Day turns 39 on Wednesday, we've got local options for how to celebrate the day. At the University of Rhode......
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By Jack Perry Email
Commuters will probably have to contend with fog this morning and rain this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service has forecast......
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page reports on a State House rally calling for the stop to human trafficking in Rhode Island. Warwick police still believe the......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Ryan Greenberg, the Barrington teen who has been free on personal recognizance since being accused of second-degree......
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6:36 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rhode Island State state police Lt. Col. Steven G. O'Donnell has been recommended to President Obama as the next U.S. marshal for......
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6:20 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 22-year-old man and his 27-year-old sister were arrested on disorderly conduct and vandalism charges early Monday after they damaged each......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island lawmakers have praised the Obama administration's release of internal Bush administration documents on the use of harsh interrogation techniques and......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After weeks of delay by a handful of Republican opponents, the Senate voted handily on Tuesday to confirm Christopher R. Hill's nomination......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jack Reed joined colleagues yesterday in renewing what has proved for years to be an uphill campaign to tighten gun-control laws by......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday approved a tax break, amounting to 30 cents per gallon, for local producers of biodiesel, the......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal food editor, was among six winners of the 21st annual Metcalf Diversity in Media Awards, it was announced......
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By Lynn Arditi Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Between 275 and 300 protesters gathered inside the State House this afternoon to demand that state lawmakers enact a stiffer anti-trafficking law......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Text-messaging while driving would be prohibited under a bill scheduled for a vote by a Senate committee Tuesday night. The sponsors......
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By Rick Massimo Email
The Dunkin' Donuts Center, in Providence, announced Tuesday that Disney Channel and Hollywood Records star Demi Lovato will perform there Sunday, Aug. 23, at 7......
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4:35 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In an attempt to curb excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages, city officials have proposed an ordinance that would limit purchasers of kegs......
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4:10 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
By Barbara Polichetti Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, RI -- Throngs of students from the John Greene Elementary School took to the sidewalks Tuesday with colorful......
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By Andy Smith Email
The Rhode Island Department of Corrections will kick off the recruitment period for the next class in its Correctional Officer Training Academy on Wednesday at......
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
The Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union is backing former Senate President William V. Irons in his effort to persuade the state's......
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
Following two months of double-digit declines in the number of travelers using T.F. Green Airport, passenger traffic started leveling off in March, according to counts......
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By Kate Bramson Email
BOSTON -- A Boston medical student has been ordered held without bail on charges that he fatally shot a masseuse he had lured to his......
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1:14 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo / NOAA In this photograph by NOAA, NOAA's new vessel, Okeanos Explorer, scheduled to go to sea next year as the first......
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By Kate Bramson Email
NEWPORT, R.I. -- A 15-year-old Newport girl whose mother had been frantically looking for her since Sunday is at the Warren police station in good......
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11:52 AM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A lawyer representing more than 100 of the Station nightclub fire victims told a federal judge Tuesday that some medical insurers have......
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10:15 AM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
By Benjamin N. Gedan Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The panel appointed by Governor Carcieri to review the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation wants......
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10:14 AM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A family living on the top floor of an apartment house in Elmwood escaped safely when a fire broke out in the......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. - With a state budget deficit projected into 2014, Governor Carcieri's director of administration told the Town Council Monday night that cities......
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- The fiancee of a Boston medical school student accused of fatally shooting a woman who placed an ad on craigslist says there's......
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By Kate Bramson Email
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- The 89-year-old local woman who was struck by a car Monday afternoon as she walked on Mountaindale Road has died. Laura Ferguson,......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
CRANSTON - Given the state of the state's economy, state Lottery officials are breathing a sigh of relief. State revenues from Lottery sponsored gambling are......
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
Steven Greenhouse, a New York Times reporter and author of the best-selling book, The Big Squeeze, Tough Times for the American Worker, will give a......
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By Jack Perry Email
We're likely to get plenty of April showers Tuesday. More showers are likely this morning and thunderstorms are possible between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.,......
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page reports that the board of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility Monday fired its embattled executive director and his management firm.......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The average price of gasoline in Rhode Island sets a new record: $3.489 a gallon, up 22......
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By Cynthia Needham Email
The City of Providence has earned itself another distinction. But don't expect bragging rights. Forbes magazine has put the Capital City at the top of......
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By Talia Buford Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As jury selection was to begin for his Superior Court murder trial, an 18-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday to shooting a......
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By Kate Bramson Email
BOSTON, Mass. -- Boston police have taken a man in custody in connection with the killing of a woman at the Marriott Copley Place......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Henry J. Wallace, a bombardier sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps who survived the infamous Bataan Death March in the early......
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By Talia Buford Email
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- An 89-year-old woman was hit by a car driven by another elderly woman as she walked along Mountaindale Road this afternoon, the......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Weeks after President Obama unveiled his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, the Senate was poised on Monday to clear the way......
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By Richard Salit Email
Responding to the widespread publicity of Chris Brown's alleged attack on girlfriend and fellow singing superstar Rihanna, a local organization is convening a panel to......
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
The state Economic Development Corporation is holding a closed-door meeting Monday at the State House, where board members are expected to discuss the future of......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
SCITUATE, R.I. -- An argument Sunday night between a bail commissioner and his son about fixing a television ended with the son taking off on......
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By Linda Borg Email
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- A Barrington couple refused to allow the police into their home after the police discovered more than 20 teenagers drinking in the......
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By Donita Naylor Email
By Michael McKinney Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr. pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he......
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy Faith Harrington, of Swansea, Mass., with her children, Joshua and Kaylee, were among the families honored on the field at......
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By Michael P. McKinney Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man who admitted raping a woman in Roger Williams Park in Providence last June......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
SCITUATE, R.I. -- Twelve days after a Foster mother of six was killed in a collision with a man with a lengthy driving record also......
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court Monday rejected Derick Hazard's bid for a new trial. Hazard, 37, is serving a life sentence for......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI -- If drinking and driving don't mix, then neither do drinking, driving and text-messaging. That in effect was what the police said......
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By Kate Bramson Email
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The bitter breakup of the governing board of the troubled Wyatt Detention Facility and its management company may be entering it......
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By Jack Perry Email
Gasoline prices in Rhode Island increased one cent during the last week, according to AAA Southern New England. The average price for regular unleaded gasoline......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The Woonsocket Police have a new tip line. To make sure the public knows where to call with tips about crime or......
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By Jack Perry Email
Members of the Rhode Island Army National Guard plan to participate in the Boston Marathon Monday in memory of a soldier who died in Iraq......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mobster Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr. is scheduled for arraignment Monday on federal charges that he plotted to kill another......
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By Jack Perry Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) -- Hasbro says the stronger dollar and retailers cutting back on their inventory levels caused first-quarter profit to fall 47 percent, but......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut state police say a Coventry man has died in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 395 in Putnam. Troopers say Joshua......
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By Jack Perry Email
LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) -- Patriots Day is about more than the Boston Marathon or the Red Sox at Fenway. It's also a state holiday that......
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By Jack Perry Email
Today's front page reports that more Rhode Islanders are turning to food stamps as the economy struggles. The public defender's office in Rhode Island......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
A year ago today: A J.C. Penney security guard is jumped from behind and slashed in the neck while questioning a suspected shoplifter at......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect a cloudy day in the Providence area with a high near 52 degrees and a chance of rain, mainly after 3......
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