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By Bill Van Siclen Journal Arts Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- More than a month after the sudden resignation of RISD Museum director Hope Alswang, members......
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5:57 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The School Committee on Friday announced a proposal to pay teachers based on the quality of their performance instead of their......
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5:46 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- Towns must fund their school districts at least at the same level as the previous year, even if the district has......
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5:25 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Gregory Smith Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A 21-year-old Charlestown man was indicted Friday in a motorcycle fatality in Richmond, Atty. Gen. Patrick C. Lynch announced. A Washington......
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5:21 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Journal Medical Writer Felice J. Freyer will appear on WRNI Radio Monday morning to discuss her project, The Price of Miracles, examining......
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3:45 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A federal judge in Massachusetts will consider the case of Survivor winner Richard Hatch, who's been in a jail since last......
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3:31 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island Department of Transportation said Friday that it wants motorists to become aware of a new law on child automotive restraints......
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3:08 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Because of expected inclement weather, the Steel Yard's Iron Chef Competition scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until Sept. 19. The art......
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2:57 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
Andrew Nosal, owner of The Map Center at 671 North Main St. in Providence, said he plans to reopen as soon as possible after a......
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2:33 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Peter Lord Email
The state Department of Health lifted its boil-water advisory this afternoon after two days of sampling, surveys and inspections failed to turn up any signs......
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2:20 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alex Kuffner Email
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- If all goes according to plan, the town could install a large wind turbine to provide clean power and lower energy......
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1:25 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri confirmed that the administration has reached a proposed agreement with the state employee unions that imposes pay cuts in place......
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1:14 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
The Associated Press has reported that a Michigan food producer is recalling its peanut products, sold in Rhode Island among other states, because of possible......
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12:20 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Email
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Governor Carcieri and Marilyn Trudeau, representing familes of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, pause after......
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12:07 PM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg and Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The presidents of the local unions within the largest state employee union......
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11:37 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
ProjoSports will be all over opening night of high school football in Rhode Island. You can get the scores and the stories online, on Twitter......
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11:37 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
A Providence man is facing drug charges in Stamford, Conn. after the police arrested him twice this week, it was reported on Friday by The......
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10:48 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- The north and southbound lanes in one section of Route 146 will be closed for five nights, starting Sunday, for demolition......
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10:35 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
SOMERSET, Mass. -- If you're planning to travel on Route 138 next week, don't. Workers will be repaving the main route, starting at 7 a.m.......
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10:00 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A Web cam shows the surf rolling in Friday morning at Tuckerman Reef, Middletown. A high surf advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m.......
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8:48 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- A man who was seriously burned in a fire Wednesday morning has died at Rhode Island Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman.......
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7:40 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An accident around 7:15 a.m. on Route 95 south at the Thurbers Avenue curve has shut down the left lane of traffic......
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7:06 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Rhode Island firefighters recall their rescue efforts at ground zero in the aftermath of 9/11. Five Rhode Islanders with expertise in health care react......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There's a chance of showers Friday, and they could cause minor flooding in urban areas and areas with poor drainage, according to......
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7:00 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A two-alarm fire called in at 9:12 p.m. Thursday at 685 North Main St., displaced 21 people and destroyed the showroom of......
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6:00 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee refuses to back down from his assertion that Republican vice presidential nominee......
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5:31 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Neil Downing Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Steven M. Costantino, chairman of the powerful House Finance Committee, said today that he would not rule out changes to......
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5:30 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Journal staff writer The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority board Thursday approved long-waited plans to extend commuter rail service from Boston to T.F.......
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4:42 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
Rhode Island remained steady with its number of uninsured children despite rising foreclosures and one of the nation's highest unemployment rates. Using Census data just......
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4:32 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Malfunctions with the water-systems at three schools in the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional Schools have forced the district to issue bottled water......
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4:04 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two firefighters, a police officer and a civilian found themselves the focus at the State......
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3:35 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Talia Buford Journal staff writer WARWICK, R.I. -- Upon cross-examination, public defender Colin Geiselman pressed Delo Repose, who said that roommate Robert Payette told......
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2:51 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Next Marine LLC has canceled Providence/Newport Ferry service for the rest of the 2009 season due to mechanical difficulties. The Rhode Island......
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2:30 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Email
The state Department of Public Health has opened another station where residents of Barrington, Warren and Bristol can pick up water that is safe to......
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2:10 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Students and faculty returned to Garvin Memorial Elementary School at around 12:40 Thursday after they were forced to evacuate earlier in the......
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2:03 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Acting on a request from the Police Department, the Board of Licenses agreed on Thursday to issue a notice to the police......
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1:42 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Channing Gray Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Philharmonic has rescheduled its pops concert in Slater Park from Saturday, Sept. 12, to Sunday the 13th at 5:30......
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1:34 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prosecutors want a judge to order Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent, who is accused of trying to get someone to kill......
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1:19 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lawyers for the Carcieri administration and the state's labor unions filed a joint stipulation of facts with the state's Supreme Court Thursday......
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1:12 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Peter F. Neronha took a big stride Thursday toward assuming the office of U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island, as the Senate Judiciary......
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1:04 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame has issued a public call for nominations. Frank Lennon, founder of the hall, said in......
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12:08 PM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Health-care workers will start jabbing students with swine-flu vaccinations in October. But officials need volunteers -- nurses, doctors and others -- to......
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11:53 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man the police say was posing as a member of the Providence Fraternal Order of Police at the Providence Place mall......
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11:08 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- In the middle of the night, a boat motor started up and caught a nearby woman by surprise. It was just an......
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10:36 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The largest labor organization in Rhode Island has elected a new leader. Longtime Rhode Island......
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9:42 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Journal Business staff Investments from Brown University's endowment fell 23 percent in the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to Bloomberg News. Overall,......
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9:37 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 41-year-old man who told the police he was assaulted in Mount Pleasant by several people early Thursday morning was taken to......
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8:52 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 29-year-old Providence woman whom the police have determined was in the midst of a drug transaction on Smith Hill was run......
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7:55 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man and a Rhode Island man have been convicted of distributing thousands of pounds of marijuana throughout the region. Federal......
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7:10 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Thursday's Providence Journal reports on the arraignment of a man charged with killing a fellow homeless man in Providence. Residents of three East Bay......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect a mostly sunny but cool and breezy day Thursday. The high temperature should reach 68 degrees, seven degrees below the normal......
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6:52 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Mayor David N. Cicilline urges residents to take precautions against disease-carrying mosquitoes in the wake of findings......
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11:21 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's address to the nation Wednesday night was inspiring to the Rhode Island delegation, and especially to U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, whose......
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6:20 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
Emma Watson, better known to fans of the Harry Potter film series as Hermione Granger, walks with her freshmen classmates Wednesday in the procession to......
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6:05 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell announced Wednesday afternoon that he will recuse himself from Friday's closed-door conference among justices over Governor Carcieri's proposed......
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4:59 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE -- Camp Runamuck II, the homeless community near Roger Williams Hospital, can stay a few more days. Shortly after the community moved from East......
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4:42 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Journal staff writer WARREN, R.I. -- Boil-water advisory or not, Jim Barton was not going to be denied. Every day, this New......
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4:36 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
By JOHN MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy will be part of the escort party that accompanies President Obama into the......
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4:04 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union wants "Survivor" reality TV star Richard Hatch freed from a jail where he has been held......
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3:56 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Senate on Wednesday approved Governor Carcieri's nominations of J. Terence Houlihan Jr. to be a judge of the Rhode Island District......
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3:54 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
By Mark Reynolds Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Providence man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the murder of his child's......
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3:42 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
Photos of suspect (with and without hat) courtesy URI Police SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. -- University of Rhode Island police and South Kingstown police are......
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3:37 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Governor Carcieri's nomination of his chief of staff, Brian P. Stern, for an opening on the Superior Court bench has now cleared......
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3:26 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Senate has given its blessings to the elevation of Alice B. Gibney, the most senior judge on the state's major trial......
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2:23 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASS. -- A 19-year-old Cumberland man caught on a Plainville police officer's radar speeding south on Route 1A Tuesday night fled from the......
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2:02 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alex Kuffner Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The committee searching for a new executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation has selected two finalists from out of......
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1:49 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City Solicitor Joseph M. Fernandez will step down at the end of September after seven years as the city's chief lawyer, Mayor......
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1:33 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- The House Democratic Caucus has become "more cohesive'' in its support of a new, government-run health insurance option than it was before members......
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1:03 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- A number of news outlets are reporting Wednesday that Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Dodd will continue as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing......
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12:56 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
A Providence man has pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts court in a homicide case, the Eagle-Tribune of North Andover reported on Wednesday. Michael Linaris, 32,......
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12:36 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- A man fell asleep while smoking a cigarette Wednesday morning, a fire official said, and suffered serious burns when their chair he......
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12:15 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
WESTERLY, R.I. -- Finn M.W. Caspersen, a Shelter Harbor summer resident and past chairman and chief executive officer of Beneficial Corp., an international financial-services......
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12:09 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tim Barmann Email
In our effort to find some meaning in the odd confluence of 9's in today's date, we turned to Google, which had been expecting us.......
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11:45 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The homeless man accused of beating to death another homeless man over a bottle of alcohol......
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11:30 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WARREN, R.I. -- An overnight house fire in an occupied duplex at 25-27 Davis St. is considered suspicious and remains under investigation by the local......
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11:14 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Florida manatee was sighted Tuesday morning at Sakonnet Point, headed north, and was spotted in Point Judith Pond in South Kingstown......
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10:48 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Depending on Rhode Island's notorious weather, skywatchers may be able to glimpse the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station orbiting......
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10:36 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A $75.1 million operating budget for the school district's fiscal year 2010, which begins Nov. 1, was approved by the School......
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10:10 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
BURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- A construction crew has accidentally poked a hole in a 1,000-gallon propane tank at the Stillwater Mill Complex, located in the vicinity......
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9:32 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) - Some businesses in downtown Woonsocket say they will file claims for financial losses with National Grid after a transformer problem denied......
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9:10 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
Wednesday's Providence Journal front page tells how one Providence school dealt with President Obama's speech to students when the school could not air the......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Cool mornings, beautiful days and cool evenings. Yes, even though the official start of fall is a little ways off, the next......
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6:57 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
The folks at the U.S. Geological Survey want you to know that on Thursday they are dumping 10 gallons of harmless red dye into the......
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6:05 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Former Warwick Fire Chief Jack Chartier accepts congratulations after he was sworn in by Governor Carcieri as......
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By Mike Stanton Journal staff writer NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The School Department bought $97,000 worth of sports equipment from a businessman who employed the......
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police have asked more than two dozen homeless men and women camped on city and private land to move again, but......
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By Phil Kukielski Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Emma Watson, the 19-year-old British actress who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, says......
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By Maria Armental Email
NORTH SCITUATE, R.I. -- The arrest Thursday of Donald Dawson, 37, of Providence, may solve dozens of thefts of credit cards as well as fraudulent......
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5:51 PM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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In Supreme Court court papers filed Tuesday afternoon, a lawyer for the Carcieri administration argues that the dispute over whether the governor can shutdown state......
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By Maria Armental Email
By Gergory Smith Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An employee of the City of Providence does not have to be convicted of a job-related......
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By Peter Lord Email
A special interagency task force created by the Obama administration has scheduled a "listening session" for 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday Sept. 24 at......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
By Andy Smith Journal Staff Writer American Traffic Solutions, Inc., an Arizona-based company, submitted the winning bid Tuesday for Nestor Traffic Systems, the Rhode Island......
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The governor's nominees for District Court and Family Court judgeships on Tuesday won the Senate Judiciary Committee's recommendation that the full Senate......
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5:19 PM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Former Rhode Islander Melissa Anne Doyle, said to be the longest-lived survivor of a rare disease, died Saturday in Cincinnati. Melissa Anne Doyle Doyle, 29,......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Police have identified a man who was beaten to death Monday night as Richard Kilburn, 53, of no known address. Kilburn apparently......
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By Maria Armental Email
NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. -- Block Island's National Wildlife Refuge will be featured on the next quarter designed to represent the Ocean State, Edmund C. Moy,......
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By John Hill Email
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The Board of Canvassers voted 3 to 0 Tuesday to disqualify Mayor Charles D. Moreau's only election opponent, ruling that the......
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By Mark Reynolds Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Schools Supt. Margaret A. Iacovelli said Tuesday she hopes to retire Dec. 30 after seven years in her job. Iacovelli included a......
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By Cynthia Needham Email
After imposing a complete hiring freeze Friday morning -- with no exceptions even for critical jobs -- the State of Rhode Island still had several......
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By Rick Massimo Email
No, not on the same bill -- we should be so lucky. But rapper Jay-Z will perform at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, 1 La salle......
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By Gina Macris Email
A 2009 graduate of Brown University in Providence, a child of poverty who worked hard, earned good grades and went to an Ivy League college......
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy Sen. Jack Reed, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy watch the president's speech as......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rep. James R. Langevin has announced that Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts will be his guest for President Obama's speech about health care to a......
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By Kate Bramson Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- The police have identified a woman whose body was found the morning of Sept. 1, about 10 yards from the railroad tracks......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Two Rhode Islanders are among more than 100 students White House Internship Program selected for this fall's class of White House interns. The......
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Bob Thayer A farmer hays fields last month on Bounty Farm in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says the cool, wet......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
EXETER, R.I. -- State police have identified the victim of a traffic fatality as Ilda R. Cardoso, 78, of Pawtucket. Sgt. Michael Reynolds of the......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Health on Tuesday advised customers of the Bristol County Water Authority, which serves Bristol, Warren and Barrington, to......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island Campus Police Department is investigating three reported incidents and possibly two other similar cases of groping......
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9:57 AM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Journal photo/ John Freidah Toll collector Carisa Daniels explains to a driver where and how they can obtain an E-ZPass. By Alex Kuffner Journal......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gas prices in Rhode Island dropped 2 cents last week, the first time gas prices have fallen in six weeks, according to......
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By Paul Edward Parker Journal staff writer State regulators will begin public hearings Tuesday on National Grid's request to raise its residential distribution rates 24......
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By Jack Perry Email
WAREHAM, Mass. (AP) -- A New Bedford man is facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting another man who tried to stop an attempted robbery......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The fun in the sun can continue Tuesday, even though schoolchildren are finding themselves back behind the desks. Expect a partly sunny......
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By Jack Perry Email
Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports that coyotes, now in every Rhode Island community except Block Island, are making regular meals out of pet......
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6:05 AM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: As if having passed through a time portal, North Central State Airport takes on the aspect of......
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6:35 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski, Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- A fundraiser for a deceased Providence police officer turned ugly early Saturday when an off-duty state......
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3:35 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Glen Johnson, Associated Press political writer BOSTON (AP) -- Former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, announced Monday......
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2:10 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal State House Bureau A member of the Obama cabinet is scheduled to visit Rhode Island Tuesday, part of an effort across 11 states to......
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1:59 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By G. Wayne Miller Email
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- A Cranston man died Monday morning when the car he was driving left the southbound lane of Route 295 and rolled down......
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1:41 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Get ready to dig a little deeper into the wallet to cross the bridge into Newport. Toll hikes approved last month......
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1:10 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By G. Wayne Miller Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hae Jeong Lee, whose popular radio and TV programs have made her a star South Korea, is in Providence for two days......
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1:01 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Felice Freyer Email
RICHMOND, R.I. -- The mulch fire at Richmond Sand and Gravel continues to burn, although not as violently as on Sunday, as the owners of......
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12:14 PM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Felice Freyer Email
According to estimates at the time, 5,000 or more people gathered outside the Sayles Finishing Co. near the Moshassuck Cemetery to see whether there would......
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11:09 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts will convene the Emergency Management Advisory Council Tuesday morning for a briefing from state Health Department director Dr.......
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10:30 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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The beautiful holiday weekend weather is expected to continue throughout the rest of the day today. According to the National Weather Service, we're likely to......
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6:05 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The office of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., announces that he will not return to the Capitol......
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