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CRANSTON, R.I. -- A cyberstalking charge against a costume designer was dismissed at District Court on Wednesday, according to court records. Ann Bruno, 59, of......
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WARWICK, R.I. -- The chief executive officer of Southwest Airlines Co., the airline that carries half the passengers who use T.F. Green Airport, said Friday......
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By Richard Salit Email
BRISTOL, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Veterans Home, which had seemingly emerged from a period wrought with allegations of patient neglect and mismanagement, is once......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
Cities and towns trying to cope with some of the toughest financial pressures in memory are turning to their unions for relief and are getting......
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Superior Court decision Friday paved the way for East Providence to continue its police-chief search, and possibly have a new person......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
REHOBOTH, Mass. -- A tractor-trailer collided with a school bus carrying members of the Pawtucket Boys & Girls Club Friday, causing minor injuries to six......
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Rhode Islanders will get one last chance to pay tribute to the late Rep. Thomas C. Slater, whom friends and colleagues buried Friday morning. Capitol......
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By Alex Kuffner Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dr. Doolittle's Pets & More is back in business. The pet store that was closed by the state in July for......
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The homeless at Camp Runamuck must move again. In Superior Court Friday, the residents agreed to leave a strip of state-owned land......
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By Bill Van Siclen Email
PROVIDENCE -- In a sign of continuing turmoil at the Rhode Island School of Design, the panel that oversees the school's Museum of Art has......
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
NARRAGANSET, R.I. -- Top town officials have met this week with Town Manager Jeffrey Ceasrine to discuss the future of his employment in Narragansett. Council......
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By Christine Dunn Email
Just three zip-code areas of Rhode Island escaped a drop in median house price in the first half of 2009, according to the Rhode Island......
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
Fifteen national child legal services groups are backing Rhode Island's child advocate in her effort to force changes in the state's foster-care system through the......
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By Richard Salit Email
The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and The Barrington Times have sued the Barrington School Committee for allegedly violating state open......
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Kimberly Fry was so concerned about hygiene that she spoke passionately for nine minutes during the School Committee's citizen-comment portion of......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
By Tom Mooney and and Thomas J. Morgan Journal Staff Writers SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- An affidavit filed in Washington County District Court quotes Kimberly......
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By Jack Perry Email
Associated Press Photo / Elise Amendola Members of the Shriver family, including Anthony Shriver, left; his sister, Maria, front center; her husband, California Gov.......
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By Kate Bramson Email
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families had no prior contact with the North Kingstown couple whose 8-year-old daughter......
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By Peter Lord Email
The U.S. Department of Energy says it sent about $22 million in federal stimulus funds for energy projects to Rhode Island in July, contradicting assertions......
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By Kate Bramson Email
RICHMOND, R.I. -- The six-month-old cow that bolted from her barn at the Washington County Fair remains on the loose Friday morning, according to the......
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By Jack Perry Email
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) -- Mourners will gather to say goodbye to Thomas Slater, the longtime state representative who died of cancer this week. The funeral......
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By Kate Bramson Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man and woman were taken to the hospital early Friday morning after crews responded to......
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By Jack Perry Email
BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island lobsterman who hauled up a 12 1/2-pound crustacean says he's having trouble finding a home for the creature.......
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By Jack Perry Email
Friday's Providence Journal front page reports that a North Kingstown woman has been charged with killing her daughter. Download a copy of Friday's front......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It looks like we're in for a nice stretch of weather through Tuesday. The National Weather Service has sunshine in its forecast......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Waterspouts are reported north of the Jamestown Bridge and in the middle of the East Passage, Jamestown......
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By Randal Edgar Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Acting Police Chief Marco Palombo Jr. won a unanimous endorsement Thursday from the City Council committee that reviews mayoral appointments, but the......
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By Maria Armental Email
TIVERTON, R.I. -- A retired public works employee out canoe-fishing with a friend died of "asphyxia due to drowning," the medical examiner's office ruled. Clifford......
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By Maria Armental Email
Providence Journal photo / Connie Grosch The police converge on the house at 73 Ricci Lane in North Kingstown where an 8-year-old girl, Camden......
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By Steve Peoples Email
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will host a community dinner at the West Warwick Senior Center in West Warwick, Thursday August 20 to listen to Rhode Islanders'......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) - Two lacrosse players who gave alcohol to an underage Hobart College student from New Jersey who died of a drug and......
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein will decide Friday if East Providence's city manager can select a new police chief before an arbitrator......
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers A tour across the new skywalk that spans Post Road in Warwick, part of the intermodal construction project......
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE -- A Massachusetts builder says he will hire some of the homeless at Hope City, a group of people living in tents under a......
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By Maria Armental Email
EXETER, R.I. -- An Exeter shellfish diver who was found dead on July 28, died as his air supply malfunctioned, leaving him without air, according......
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By Jennifer D. Jordan Email
More than 100 spaces in free, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs remain unfilled, and state education officials are encouraging parents to apply for the slots by Aug.......
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By Gina Macris Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An important regulatory step Thursday brought North Tiverton residents one step closer to the cleanup of 50 acres of contaminated soil in......
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By John Hill Email
The head of the Moderate Party of Rhode Island is claiming that enough valid voter signatures have been certified to put the party on the......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
RICHMOND, R.I. -- She is red with blond highlights, and she is Sarah Balmforth's baby. She has small horns, but she doesn't use them. Aysla,......
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By Felice Freyer Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dr. Kathleen C. Hittner, president of Miriam Hospital since 2000, will step aside on Sept. 8, as the hospital's parent company moves......
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By John Hill Email
Providence Journal files / Frieda Squires Miguel Avila at his arraignment in February on charges of murdering Elio Olivero. A court interpreter is at right.......
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By Jack Perry Email
HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) -- Thousands are expected to attend the public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver at a Cape Cod church. The wake is......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - A bullet fired from a gun early Wednesday morning went through the window of a second-floor apartment on 42 Cleveland St. and......
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By Jack Perry Email
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) -- The family and colleagues of state Rep. Thomas Slater plan to gather to remember the life of the Providence Democrat. Slater......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When a Red Mercury Cougar crashed early Thursday morning into the center Jersey barrier on Route 95 north at exit 23, several......
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By Jack Perry Email
Thursday's Providence Journal front page reports that the toll will increase on the Pell Bridge. East Providence plans to lay off 13 of its......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect showers Thursday, mainly before 10 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. It's 64 degrees shortly before 7 a.m. The temperature......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The city Retirement Board awards a partial municipal pension to Frank E. Corrente, convicted of corrupting his......
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10:17 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Lincoln Little Leaguers have earned the second seed in the Final Four of the New England Little League Championship and will play third-seed Vermont......
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10:13 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police have arrested two men in connection with a brawl inside the East Side Shell station at 1132 Mineral Spring......
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7:04 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Providence Journal Washington bureau File photo U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy WASHINGTON -- A measure of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's impact on......
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The R.I. Department of Health has reopened Gorton Pond Beach in Warwick and closed Atlantic Beach Club Beach in Middletown because of......
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By Donita Naylor Email
Miguel Rosario of Providence skateboards around puddles with friends at the Bank of America City Center skating rink in Providence today. The Providence Journal /......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- The last of the 120 people who were taken to area hospitals after suffering the effects of a hazardous gas that......
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By Maria Armental Email
STONINGTON, Conn. -- Two Warwick men have been sentenced to jail for coercing a minor into having sex, according to court records. Gary Paul Cramer......
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5:59 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The local police union is seeking a temporary restraining order in Superior Court Thursday afternoon to stop the city manager from......
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5:55 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Teachers Union has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court that seeks to prevent the school district from abolishing seniority......
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By Jennifer D. Jordan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, has called a rare summer meeting for faculty, staff and students at......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 60-year-old motorist, angry with another driver who he said was text-messaging while pulling in front of him, took matters into......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
Inside GreatPoint Energy Inc.'s Mayflower Clean Energy Center in Somerset, Mass., on the ground floor where the catalysts start out, then flow to the mixing......
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By Maria Armental Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A Warwick woman is being held as a violator on charges she burglarized a Cranston home while out on bail on an......
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4:28 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city will lay off 13 of its 100 police officers immediately to save $1 million, City Manager Richard Brown announced......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Jack and Ruth Lubrano at their wedding on Aug. 15, 1925, and in 2000, shortly after celebrating their 75th anniversary. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ruth......
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By Mike McDermott Email
Boston Red Sox Kevin Youkilis runs to the mound and slams into Detroit Tiger pitcher Rick Porcello after getting hit at the plate, prompting a......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- A union representing about 31 municipal employees will receive no pay increase until 2011 and be required to pay higher deductibles......
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By Maria Armental Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Prospective police officers, Cumberland has a job for you. The Town of Cumberland is now accepting applications for patrol officers. Candidates must......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
NEWPORT, R.I. -- A canine decoy used to deter Canada geese is posted on the lawn in front of the Breakers mansion. AP Photo /......
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
Do you like to spend your money supporting the local economy? You buy locally-grown produce and Little Rhody dairy products, and you frequent mom-and-pop shops......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
COVENTRY, R.I. -- Coventry Animal Control is advising residents to vaccinate their animals after a skunk that was playing with a family dog in a......
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By Jack Perry Email
DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Authorities are investigating what they are calling a "police involved" fatal shooting in Dartmouth. A spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office......
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1:14 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Four RIPTA bus passengers were sent to the hospital after an elderly Florida driver ran a stop sign, ramming into the bus,......
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By Christine Dunn Email
Watch Hill's Clarmar estate is still on the market. Photo courtesy of Jose Boza WESTERLY, R.I. -- An auction of the Clarmar estate in Westerly's......
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Judicial Nominating Commission will interview three people to succeed Presiding Superior Court Judge Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. -- the only......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. - - The police arrested a 29-year-old man Monday in connection with home invasions and a break-in over the past two months. The......
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By Jack Perry Email
The state Traffic Management Center says an accident that had blocked a lane on the Washington Bridge, Route 195 West, has been cleared. Check the......
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By Bruce Landis Journal Staff Writer JAMESTOWN, R.I. --- The state Turnpike and Bridge Authority Wednesday morning increased the tolls on the Pell Bridge to......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Traffic management Center says an accident that blocked part of Route 95 South at exit 24 has been cleared. The......
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By Kate Bramson Journal staff writer PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The police Wednesday morning are looking for two very young men believed to have robbed the......
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By Jack Perry Email
Wednesday's Providence Journal reports that state Health Director David Gifford predicts that 30 to 50 percent of Rhode Islanders will get the swine flu,......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Drizzle, showers and thunderstorms are possible for much of Wednesday. And commuters can expect patchy fog before 10 a.m. Expect a mostly......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Former Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, who left the GOP in 2007 and later endorsed Democrat Barack Obama......
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BOSTON, Mass. -- A Providence man was arraigned Tuesday in Massachusetts on charges he schemed to collect $18,500 in unemployment benefits from that state while......
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- A Massachusetts woman and a Providence man are being held without bail on charges they tried to kill a man last week......
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WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- A 32-year-old local man has been indicted on separate counts of first- and second-degree child molestation and two counts of first-degree......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- A 23-year-old man who allegedly tried to choke his 19-year-old girlfriend in an argument over his refusal to return her cell phone......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
JOHNSTON, R.I -- The police charged a 23-year-old Scituate man with making threats to public officials, along with domestic assault, vandalism and carrying a concealed......
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Canadian doughnut mogul Tim Hortons has walked away from a plan to sponsor a Rhode Island event to promote heterosexual marriage after word of the......
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By Mark Reynolds Email
The Providence Journal / Richard Dujardin In August, 2008, North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi shows off the conference room at the North Providence Public Safety......
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By Felice Freyer Email
A.P. Photo/ A. Scott Kingsley In this photo released by Johnson & Wales University, Rhode Island Health Department Chief David Gifford, left, speaks during......
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Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires She sank in a summer 2007 storm and was refloated last July. On Tuesday, the Juliett 484 --......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- A 32-year-old local man has been indicted on separate counts of first- and second-degree child molestation and two counts of first-degree......
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Only one person remained hospitalized Tuesday afternoon from last week's mysterious vapor release at a New Bedford waste-disposal business after another......
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By Maria Armental Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A Massachusetts woman is being held without bail on charges that she tried to kill a man last week in a Cranston......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to arrive between sunset Tuesday and dawn Wednesday, but as is often the case, Rhode......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University researchers say they have new evidence that some carbon nanoparticles, which medical researchers are testing as treatments for a host......
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The owners of the Twin River slot parlor favor a cheaper contract with private kennels providing enough dogs to run 8 to 10 races a......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 24-year-old Providence man was shot in the leg while sitting in a car in South Providence early Monday morning. Mark Cruz,......
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Pawtucket man who is accused of molesting and abusing his four-month-old daughter was ordered held without bail in District Court,......
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By Maria Armental Email
BOSTON -- A Providence man was arraigned Tuesday in Massachusetts on charges he schemed to collect $18,500 in unemployment benefits from that state while still......
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MIDDLETOWN -- A book signing by Kirsten Holmstedt and three of the women whose stories she profiled in "The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of......
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PROVIDENCE -- A few minutes after buying candy at the Olivio Market in Elmwood mid-afternoon on Monday, a man pulled a black rag over his......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Fire Department's Rescue 1 and a 2006 Cadillac sedan collided at the intersection of Broad and Ontario streets Monday morning,......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- The state Department of Children, Youth and their Families has placed a daycare on probation after police say a baby was left......
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By Paul Kenyon Providence Journal sportswriter The Lincoln Little League team will complete pool play in the New England Championship Wednesday when it takes on......
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By Paul Davis Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It isn't much as far as homes go. The floor is dirt and stone. Cars whiz past on the overhead bridge,......
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By Richard Salit Email
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Monique Estrela, 19, from the East Providence Boys and Girls Club, was among those collecting trash Tuesday morning......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
FOXBORO, Mass. -- The Massachusetts State Lottery and the New England Patriots have announced a partnership agreement under which they will sell instant $5 tickets.......
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NEW LONDON, CONN. -- A transformer fire knocked out power to Lawrence & Memorial Hospitals Tuesday, but was swiftly contained, according to a hospital spokesman.......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rep. Patrick Kennedy is remembering his aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, as an inspiration and a tireless advocate for people with intellectual......
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
SOMERSET, Mass. -- U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke will tour GreatPoint Energy Inc.'s Mayflower Clean Energy Center in Somerset Wednesday morning. The newly-constructed $30-million......
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By the Associated Press If you're looking to meet your match, you could get lucky among the international matchbook cover collectors gathering this week for......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. - The Woonsocket police said they arrested a 21-year-old woman Sunday for robbery after she stole a purse from a 73-year-old woman on......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri ordered Rhode Island state flags lowered to half staff Tuesday morning to honor Rep. Thomas C. Slater, a veteran state......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island jumped six cents in the past week, the second week in a row the price has increased,......
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By Jack Perry Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) -- A Pawtucket man charged with physically and sexually abusing a 4-month-old girl is set to face a judge. Emanuel Baptista is......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- It's business as usual Tuesday morning at the Raytheon facility here after crews responded Monday night to the report of an apparent......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The dismantling of the Soviet submarine that sank to the bottom of the Providence River in a torrential rain storm in 2007......
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By Jack Perry Email
Thursday's Providence Journal front page reports that in these times of tight budgets, teachers are buying supplies for their classrooms -- with the help......
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HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) -- President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Tuesday is already warm at 72 degrees shortly before 7 a.m., and it will get a lot warmer with the temperature expected......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The state's bus system, already in serious financial trouble that could force major service cuts, is headed......
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By Talia Buford Email
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- Dozens of firefighters responded to a spill of an unknown hazardous material at military contractor Raytheon Monday night. Hazmat crews worked to......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. Rhode Island's child advocate is urging a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit that seeks an overaul of the state's foster care......
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By Mike Szostak Email
A 47-year-old Coventry man has become the first Rhode Islander to swim across the English Channel. Ray Gandy covered the 21 miles from Dover,......
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By G. Wayne Miller Email
TAUNTON, Mass. _ The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday for Providence and surrounding communities, including......
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JOHNSTON _ State Police report that all lanes on Route 6 East are now open after an accident early Monday morning involving a tractor-trailer near......
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JOHNSTON _ An accident early Monday morning involving a tractor-trailer on Route 6 east near the Providence line has temporarily shut down traffic on eastbound......
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The state of Rhode Island officially observes Victory Day on Monday, Aug. 10. The following are among the events marking the day in our area:......
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The state of Rhode Island is celebrating Victory Day Monday, and so are most of the staffers of The Providence Journal. That means our breaking......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: State Rep. Ray Sullivan is hired to lead Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign operation in Rhode......
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WESTERLY, R.I. -- Emergency responders searched by air, sea and shore Sunday after a fishing pole, fisherman's waders and a tackle box were found near......
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