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NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After 28 years with the town's police department, Deputy Chief Paul A. Marino has retired and, starting Monday, will begin a......
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5:18 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Supreme Court on Friday overturned rulings by the Family Court that had allowed a divorced mother and her two children......
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4:58 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer Lifeguard Shane Sullivan, of Middletown, grabs his sweatshirt as he leaves his perch Friday at Second Beach in......
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4:50 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- A local man is being held without bail on charges he tried to sell drugs to an undercover police officer. Anthony Jimenez,......
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4:25 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island lawmakers have scheduled confirmation hearings next week for Paul Suttell, who's been nominated to be chief justice of the......
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4:17 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Anti-poverty activist Henry Shelton, head of the George Wiley Center in Pawtucket, is calling on the state Public Utilties Commision to impose a "hardship moratorium"......
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4:03 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city's 34th-annual Gay Pride parade will wend its way through the downtown beginning at dusk Saturday after an afternoon of festivities......
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4:01 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
WESTERLY, R.I. -- The Westerly Police are looking for a convicted sex offender who was released from prison on June 2 but has not......
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3:33 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Despite the rain and dreary weather, preparations are under way at Rhode Island Country Club in Barrington for the 2009 CVS Caremark Charity Classic Golf......
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3:03 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Slain Cranston Fire Lt. James Pagano will be honored Sunday by the Cranston League for Future Baseball Organization. A stone memorial bench......
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2:41 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch has concluded his one-year term as president of the National Association of Attorneys General. Lynch's......
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2:36 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The State Police have arrested a local man on charges he sold unstamped cigarettes, altered out-of-state cigarettes, and marijuana out of two......
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1:56 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
BOSTON (AP) -- People.com is reporting that Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is pregnant. Citing two anonymous sources, the report says the wife of football star......
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1:53 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Don't forget. Sunday is Father's Day, a day to let dad sleep late, get him breakfast in bed, give him a card or join him......
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1:12 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer NEWPORT, R.I. -- Two police officers saved a South Carolina man from drowning after the man's motorboat overturned off......
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12:43 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- Police say a Massachusetts man ran over a mother duck as she was walking with 12 ducklings in a shopping mall......
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11:08 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Journal staff writer Food manufacturer Nestle USA on Friday voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after illnesses were reported......
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10:28 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence police have arrested a 29-year-old man who was wanted on various charges of fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses......
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9:53 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence police have charged an attendant who works at the Charlesgate Nursing Center at 100 Randall St. with two counts of......
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9:26 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) -- Officials say an anonymous donor has stepped forward with a $12,000 gift to keep Attleboro's four public pools open all summer.......
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8:12 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Traffic on Route 195 heading into the city from the east got off to a good start Friday morning, the day after......
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7:31 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Crews responded to a fire early Friday morning in a multi-family house at 222 Bucklin St. The fire was reported at 5:34......
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7:01 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Showers are in the forecast Friday, through the weekend and even into early next week, according to the National Weather Service. Blame......
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7:00 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Friday's Providence Journal front page reports on the first day of travel over the new westbound connection between Route 195 and Route 95 south.......
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6:00 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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On the local front: A year ago today: Rhode Island State Trooper Brendan Doyle returns to duty a year after a severe brain injury caused......
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7:54 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- In the wake of a vote of "no confidence" against Pawtucket Fire Chief Timothy McLaughlin by city's fire fighters union, the Rhode......
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6:40 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In a sharp reversal from last year, the House has voted down a proposal aimed at changing the way that the president......
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6:33 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Karen Ziner Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House has postponed voting until Tuesday on legislation that supporters say strengthens Rhode Island's Access to Public Records Act. Rep.......
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6:15 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The afternoon rush hour came and went without any major traffic tie-ups Thursday, despite worries that......
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5:59 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri will appear Thursday night on the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club to discuss the debate over gay marriage, his office......
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4:47 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. --The state Board of Pharmacy has taken disciplinary action against Sen. Leo R. Blais, R-Coventry, for......
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4:39 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lynn Arditi Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Donald L. Carcieri joined representatives of the state's top law enforcement agencies Thursday afternoon to urge lawmakers to make indoor prostitution......
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4:24 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- The town will boycott a new state regulation that calls for each public water system to force each household to install a......
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4:14 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard Salit Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher Koller is asking Rhode Island's three health insurers to withdraw their rate increase requests, including double-digit hikes......
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4:12 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
BRISTOL, R.I. -- Students were evacuated from Rockwell Elementary School at about 1 p.m. Thursday after a strong pesticide odor entered the building. Three or......
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3:54 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- During an unrelated press conference Thursday afternoon, Governor Caricieri blasted the legislature's state budget plan for the coming year......
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3:43 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Peter B. Lord Journal Environment Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts joined leaders of several environmental groups in speaking out Thursday afternoon......
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3:24 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Karen Ziner Email
A national commission issued a report Thursday that calls Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids under the Bush administration "a regretful chapter in our American......
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3:06 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Talia Buford Email
COVENTRY, R.I. -- A Coventry man pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court of Connecticut to tax evasion and mail fraud. Michael Young, 35, of......
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2:45 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The nine occupants of a two-family home on Jewett Street were able to escape a fire early this morning because they were......
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1:55 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Newport man with past drug convictions has pleaded guilty to federal charges of dealing a sizeable amount of crack cocaine last......
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1:35 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police have identified the man who died in a Wednesday evening motorcycle crash as Jonathan M. Conway, 31, of East Providence.......
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12:28 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The City Council is set to approve Thursday night a plan to close the $17-million deficit for the fiscal year that ends......
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12:22 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate in Massachusetts climbed to 8.2 percent in May even as the state added 4,900 jobs - the first increase......
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12:17 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A family earning the state's median income can afford a home in just nine of the state's 39 cities and towns, a......
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12:02 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If you want to know where that fish you're trying to catch came from, this Saturday will be a good day to......
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11:20 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A big traffic shift early Thursday means many drivers heading home from Providence in the afternoon will have to take different routes,......
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10:35 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By Alex Kuffner Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Iway storm has passed. I left my house in Barrington at 9:30 a.m. and pulled......
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10:14 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy A car cuts through the barrels set up at the new split to the Iway from Route 195 west just......
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10:10 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jack Reed was one of the lawmakers on hand at the White House Wednesday as President Obama unveiled his new plan to......
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10:00 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A Taunton woman has been charged with being drunk when she crashed her car into a tree with her 4-year-old......
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9:56 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
For a story on the latest unemployment figures, staff writer Andy Smith would like to talk to any Rhode Islander who lost a job in......
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9:43 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal Staff Writer Governor Carcieri told 200 people this morning at the annual meeting of the Governor's Workforce Board that the state's......
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9:38 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard Salit Email
I thought my commute to work from Barrington on Wednesday was the calm before the storm. I hit very little traffic, managed not to go......
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9:32 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- First there was the traffic caused by the Iway opening, turning a usually smooth trip from East Providence over the Henderson Bridge......
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9:31 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
HOPKINTON, R.I. -- A Westerly man was taken by Life Star helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital after he hit a deer on Laurel St. Wednesday......
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9:26 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Armed Services Committee has produced a $680.4-billion defense spending blueprint for next year that would pinch Navy programs but treat......
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9:25 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Kukielski Journal Staff Writer Left my driveway in Somerset this morning at 8:35 a.m. for the 17-mile commute to work. Pulled into the......
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9:13 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
Drivers on Route 195 west are inching their way into Providence from the Massachusetts state line at this hour, making room for each other to......
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9:07 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Drivers heading for Route 95 south on the new exit seem to have an easier commute than those heading for Route......
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9:06 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
By 8:45 a.m., watching the highway cameras from inside the Traffic Management Center, Rhode Island Department of Transportation officials said the peak traffic had apparently......
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8:54 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Just getting onto Route 195 west has proven troublesome for some drivers. Photographers Mary Murphy and Sandor Bodo were stuck in......
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8:24 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
SEEKONK, MASS. -- Traffic on Route 195 west was still backed up to the Massachusetts state line around 8:08 a.m. Thursday, according to Journal Staff......
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8:12 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The first reports from Iway commuters have come over on Twitter, and the comments include some complaints. Here's what they're saying tviall Survived first iWay......
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8:03 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges involving the theft of furniture from The Hartford......
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7:56 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
SEEKONK, Mass. -- It's smooth sailing for drivers traveling west on Route 195, until they hit the Rhode Island state line. At exit 1 in......
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7:51 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
By 7:30 a.m., Rhode Island Department of Transportation officials said the backup on Route 195 west was approaching the Massachusetts state line. At that point,......
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7:41 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Providence Journal photos / Steve Szydlowski Traffic slows along Route195 west Thursday morning after the DOT opens a new section of the relocated highway,......
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7:30 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Traffic on Route 195 west is backed up about a quarter of a mile east of the Pawtucket Avenue bridge in......
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7:16 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Traffic on Route 195 West heading toward the new Iway split is backed up at least three-quarters of a mile before the......
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7:01 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Rain is once again in the forecast Thursday. After a nice day Wednesday, rain is most likely to move back into......
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7:01 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy Cars try to change lanes at the new split to the Iway from Route 195 west to Route 95 south......
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7:00 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Thursday's Providence Journal front page reports that the House Finance Committee Wednesday approved a $7.76 billion state budget. Morning commuters are having their first......
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6:10 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Email
It's happening -- at this early hour, cars negotiating the new piece of roadway that takes traffic off Route 195 West to Route 95 north......
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6:00 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Juliett 484 was once a movie star, captained by Harrison Ford in an action film. Before that,......
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6:58 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A chlorine leak prompted emergency officials to evacuate the Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness Center Wednesday afternoon. "Right now it's not a......
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6:45 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Greystone Elementary School has received special permission from the state education commissioner to end its school year on Thursday. The school......
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5:51 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, RI -- In a 16-1 vote, the House Finance Committee OKd the proposed fiscal year 2010 budget Wednesday, just moments......
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5:07 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Pension changes are coming for public-school teachers and state employees, including new judges. A piece of the proposed fiscal 2010 budget, approved......
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5:03 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A teenage girl from the Meeting Street School girl has become the first person in......
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5:01 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. -- Officials from the Mystic Aquarium have given up their effort to retrieve the body of a pilot whale that stranded and......
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4:40 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- The police are looking for a man who held up the Elks Lodge at 326 Farnum Pike Tuesday morning, escaping with an......
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4:25 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Superior Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. on Wednesday announced his retirement from the bench at the same time that Governor......
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4:15 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By STEVE PEOPLES Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The General Assembly has released a $7.76-billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year that......
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4:14 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- The new telescope at the Margaret Jacoby Observatory at the Community College of Rhode Island will get its first public airing, known......
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2:48 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Despite concerns from the state Health Director, the School Committee is moving ahead with plans to sell exclusive rights for the......
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2:35 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The man alleged to be the "camouflage robber" is now facing charges from four more communities, as police in Rhode Island and......
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2:27 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The legislature's budget plan cuts $55 million in general revenue sharing from cities and towns, a reduction that eliminates the general revenue sharing program. Municipal......
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2:19 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The Assembly is set to reverse the governor's plans to cut several human service programs. The budget proposal for the coming year, released Tuesday afternoon,......
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2:19 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --- The state Department of Transportation will start closing lanes on Route 195 westbound and Route 95 southbound at 8 p.m. tonight......
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2:13 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The General Assembly introduced a budget plan Wednesday afternoon that would raise Rhode Island's 31-cent gas tax by 2 cents, rejects the......
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1:39 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri has appointed David M. Farmer, dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, to the......
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1:26 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Are you concerned about how start of the next phase of the relocation of 195, known as the Iway, on Thursday will......
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1:25 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Marquiss J. Johnson, 18, in a photo on his myspace page, courtesy of David Perry's family PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Family and friends of an......
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1:17 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
JOHNSTON -- Citing steep cuts in state aid and other lost revenue, Mayor Joseph M. Polisena has proposed a 4.9 percent tax hike for the......
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12:39 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. --- Charles Michael Chandler Jr. noticed last September that a school district computer he'd worked on the day before had vanished. By December,......
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12:21 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city is installing six motion-sensor cameras at city parks in an attempt to ward off vandals as part of Mayor David......
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11:01 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By Cynthia Needham, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, RI -- The House of Representatives has canceled Wednesday afternoon's floor session to give the House Finance......
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10:37 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- A local man is charged with drunken driving and attempting to elude the police after his involvement in two crashes that injured......
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9:08 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) -- Out-of-state visitors won't have to pay more to enjoy Rhode Island state beaches in Westerly this summer after all. The......
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8:29 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A Taunton man has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly beating his 4-month old puppy so severely that it......
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8:21 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Globe's largest union and ownership failed to reach an agreement on wage and benefit cuts after another all-night negotiating session.......
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By Jack Perry Email
Wednesday's Providence Journal front page reports on changes coming Thursday morning in the route drivers will take to reach Route 95 south from Route......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- In the end, one candidate was enough. The School Committee Tuesday night named Victor D. Mercurio as its new superintendent, picking......
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7:01 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
WEST WARWICK -- Taxpayers were strongly urged and warned Tuesday night to support the Town Council's proposed $79 million budget and its roughly 80-cent tax......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A beautiful June day is in store Wednesday for Southern New Englanders. Enjoy it while you can, because showers are in the......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: A Superior Court judge refuses to order a new trial for three Narragansett Indians convicted of assaulting......
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10:35 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- A 21-year-old local man was in police custody at Rhode Island Hospital Tuesday night after he crashed his car on Mendon......
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9:30 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
SCITUATE, R.I. -- A 37-year-old woman who, the police say, was receiving large parcel packages of marijuana at her home in North Kingstown and turning......
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6:46 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prompted in part by the long-running conflict between the East Providence School Committee and its teacher union, legislation keeping the terms of......
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6:36 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- The state Attorney General's office on Tuesday charged the schools' information technology director with felony embezzlement and conspiracy and his son......
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6:15 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With some minor amendments, the House late Tuesday unanimously approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would let National Grid......
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5:50 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation that would relax kindergarten entrance age requirements. The bill would allow school departments to......
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5:20 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is sending more than $12 million to Rhode Island to strengthen local disaster readiness and response,......
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5:15 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. - - A man who went to a residence allegedly looking for crack but without money to pay for it wound up in......
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5:12 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Health on Tuesday cleared the Atlantic Beach Club beach in Middletown for swimming. The department said water samples......
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WASHINGTON _ Sen. Jack Reed prodded top Navy officials Tuesday to look into the possibility of launching robot aircraft from submerged submarines. Given the......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House and Senate on Tuesday each overrode Governor Carcieri's veto of legislation allowing three "compassion centers" to dispense medical marijuana.......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked Tuesday afternoon to talk about the unhappiness of mayors after Vice President Biden and a......
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By Katherine Gregg Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Republican Governor Carcieri is lashing back at Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts, a Democrat, for what he......
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence is on track to have $18,000 in hand for National Grid by the end of......
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Two men were arrested Friday for trying to break into a home in Coventry, including a student from Cranston East High School who was graduating......
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A Rhode Island minister who is regional vice president with the National Coalition Of Latino Clergy & Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC) has called on Governor Carcieri......
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Unless there are many absent and a school can't function effectively, the state Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and......
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to close some of the most egregious loopholes in the state's pension system. The......
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By Tracy Breton Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court has suspended the law license of Paul B. McCarthy for two months in connection with a mortgage......
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By Randal Edgar Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Cranston teachers will meet at the West Valley Inn in West Warwick this afternoon to vote on a new contract. Union President......
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By Richard Salit Email
Nearly 100 acres of Navy land in Portsmouth originally deemed surplus will now be withheld for possible alternative energy initiative, the Navy announced on Tuesday.......
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By Peter Lord Email
Scientists from a cross section of federal agencies issued a report Tuesday concluding that "observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal" and is......
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state House of Representatives is to vote on Tuesday afternoon on a proposed state law to regulate public utility improvements in......
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By Mark Reynolds Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Office of Economic Recovery and Reinvestment has decided to launch a "fact-finding mission" to gather information on North Providence's......
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By Jack Perry Email
LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. -- That dead whale at Briggs Beach is still there and isn't growing any more fragrant, beach manager Ron Bogle said Tuesday.......
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MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- The Norman Bird Sanctuary's 5K Run/Walk will start on at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and end four hours later, according to Lt.......
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The Rhode Island State Police and members of the Rhode Island State Police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Unit on Friday seized more than 50......
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A top-level Carcieri administration official has written House Finance Chairman Steven Costantino to assure him......
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By Tim Barmann Email
When the dead humpback whale floating just off a Little Compton beach finally comes ashore, Briggs Beach manager Ron Bogle will have to figure out......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A preliminary investigation indicates a Monday night fire that heavily damaged a single-family house at 93 Babcock St. , near Roger Williams......
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By Jack Perry Email
MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) -- The new leadership of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has put a deal with casino investors on hold saying terms are unfair.......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Navy heads to Newport for an annual symposium on military strategy. U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It looks like we'll have drizzle, showers and clouds for much of Tuesday. Areas of drizzle are expected before 4 p.m. and......
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By Jack Perry Email
Tuesday's Providence Journal front page includes a guide to Thursday's opening of a new section of the relocated Route 195 in Providence. More than......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Route 95 north reopened at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday after all three lanes were closed for about two hours because a street sweeper......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Citing the environmental icon Rachel Carson, dense scientific studies, and their own years on the water, local......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A fire heavily damaged a single family house at 93 Babcock St. , near Roger Williams Park, around 9 p.m. Monday, forcing......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A malfunction in the flow switch that controls the sprinkler system at the Providence Place Mall set off the mall's fire alarm......
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man out on probation for robberies is suspected in a crime spree in more than a dozen communities in Rhode Island......
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I -- The final day of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday had all the sound and fury that one might have expected......
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Support for an investigation of the Carcieri administration's newly-disclosed agreement to pay $370,000 to a......
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By Linda Borg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence School Department will hold community meetings Tuesday and Thursday to gather insights about its aging school buildings. Supt. Tom Brady......
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By Richard Salit Email
An application to acquire - at no cost - about 350 acres of surplus Navy land on Aquidneck Island for the Narragansett Indians is incomplete......
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Jose Benito told the police officers that he had just taken the 4-year-old girl for a walk in Bucklin Street Park early......
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By Maria Armental Email
BOSTON (AP) -- Health officials say a Boston woman in her 30s is the first swine flu-related death in Massachusetts. State and city health officials......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The confrontation between the firefighters union and Mayor David N. Cicilline that caused Vice President Joe Biden and other top administration officials......
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayors will take up the White House's offer for another sit down --this time in the nation's capital -- to discuss implementation......
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By Jennifer D. Jordan Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. --The University of Rhode Island has appointed Professor Nancy Fey-Yensan as interim dean of the high-profile College of the Environment and Life......
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By Christine Dunn Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Mark S. Weiner and his wife, L. Susan Weiner, of East Greenwich, have filed a lawsuit against Carnegie......
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state legislature is set to release the 2010 state budget on Wednesday, according to......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Robert Clark Corrente, Rhode Island's U.S. attorney, announced Monday that he plans to resign, effective at midnight on June 26. Corrente, who......
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Police Chief Dean M. Esserman, after having been censured in a vote by active and retired police officers, said Monday that he......
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By Jack Perry Email
Providence firefighters picket in front of the Convention Center along with members of fire departments from around the state. Some 200 pickets had gathered by......
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts is calling for an investigation by the attorney general into the Carcieri administration's promise......
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A new poll funded by a group opposed to gay marriage has found that a plurality of Rhode Islanders oppose same-sex unions. Forty-three percent of......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A mayoral debate Monday morning pitted coal- and natural gas-producing cities and towns against everyone else on curbing harmful carbon emissions. Mayors......
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By Christine Dunn Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Affordable housing advocates gathered at 201 Thurbers Ave. in Providence Monday morning to celebrate SWAP's (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) groundbreaking for its......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The off-duty firefighters and police officers who have been picketing the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the Convention Center moved back across......
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By Bryan Rourke Email
NORHT KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The Navy Blue Angels and the Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds will be the featured attraction of this year's R.I. National Guard......
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By Kate Bramson Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A 3-year-old boy who the police said was seriously injured Saturday when a small trailer hitched to a passenger car ran......
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
TIVERTON, R.I. -- A motorcyclist is in serious condition Monday morning after a crash that killed his passenger late Saturday afternoon. Joseph Beirola, 48, of......
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, left, talks with Antonio R. Villaraigosa, center, mayor of Los Angeles, and Manuel A. Diaz,......
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EXETER, R.I. -- An Exeter man is charged with driving under the influence and causing serious bodily injury after the state police say he struck......
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities say the death of a Berkley man during a fight at a New Bedford bar is being treated as......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices continue their upward climb and have now increased for nine straight weeks, according to AAA Southern New England. The average......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hearing that passing cars couldn't read their signs, about 200 protesting firefighters walking mostly two-by-two in a clockwise direction did a quick......
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SANDWICH, Mass. (AP) - Some New England waters are seeing a huge increase in the number of starfish roaming the sea floor, and marine scientists......
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By Kate Bramson Email
Journal photo/ Steve Szydlowski Providence firefighter Wayne Oliveira shouts through a bullhorn. He was among about 24 firefighters and 15 police officers protesting at......
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Newspaper Guild meets with managers at The Boston Globe and the National Labor Relations Board as it tries to block......
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Monday's Providence Journal front page reports on the nation's fastest high-school miler in the nation. His name is Andrew Springer, and he's from Westerly.......
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On the local front: A year ago today: In April, a beleaguered Woonsocket Mayor Susan D. Menard threw in the towel during a week in......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Clouds are moving in, and there's a chance of showers, mainly after 3 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. We'll have......
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By Lynn Arditi Email
City mayors from around the country shared tips about dealing with vacant and foreclosed properties at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 77th annual meeting on......
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda, addressing the U.S Conference of Mayors before lunch on Sunday, talked about the need to......
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The police reported that a three-year-old boy was seriously injured when a small trailer hitched to a passenger car ran over him near his house......
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