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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Firefighters extinguished a blaze at a multifamily house at 58 Chester St. Saturday afternoon. The fire was reported at 5:15 p.m. and......
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PROVIDENCE - An East Greenwich physician has been stripped, at least temporarily, of his license to practice medicine in Rhode Island, amid allegations that he......
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7:22 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri has ordered all department directors and state agencies to immediately stop any payments being made directly to the Rhode Island......
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7:06 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Starting Sunday night, drivers going north on Route 95 between Exits 5 and 6 will find a lane shift and barriers......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE - A 49-year-old man has been ordered held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions after allegedly raping a woman who lives one......
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6:29 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Just days after Willie was found, starving and emaciated, walking slowly along side a set of train tracks below a Route 95......
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5:58 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - A rivalry among Pawtucket and Central Falls students ended in an assault Wednesday outside Shea High School that got 11 students arrested......
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5:57 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet. Ernie......
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4:33 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Email
NEWPORT, R.I. -- In her inaugural remarks, Sister Jane Gerety, the new president of Salve Regina University, urged students to tackle the unknown, challenge the......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- National Grid plans to move a humongous piece of equipment from Quonset Point to Warwick by truck in Tuesday's early morning......
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By TATIANA PINA Journal Staff Writer PAWTUCKET, R.I. - The Pawtucket Police have charged a man with the murder of a man found shot to......
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By Christine Dunn Email
Providence Journal file photo / John Freidah NEWPORT, R.I. -- Wrentham House, an 1891 stone mansion on Ocean Avenue, was sold over the summer for......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In letters to students, faculty and staff acknowledging three confirmed cases of H1N1 flu virus, Brown University officials urge everyone in the......
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People age 9 and older will only need one shot to be protected against swine flu, Rhode Island Health Department confirmed Friday. That could free......
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By John Hill Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A would-be mayoral candidate in Central Falls is suing the city's Board of Canvassers, charging their decision to void his candidacy violated......
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2:56 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Talia Buford Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Days after what would have been Natasha L. Gonsalves' 20th birthday, family and friends are gathering for a walk in memory of......
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Lawyers representing the Twin River slot parlor have asked a federal judge to approve a compensation plan that would give the top......
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1:27 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alex Kuffner Email
First the good news: Rhode Island no longer has the second-highest jobless rate in the nation. Now the bad: It only dropped one place to......
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The Quonset Business Park is set to undergo major road improvements after the state was awarded nearly $4 million in federal stimulus funds. The U.S.......
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By Neil Downing Email
By NEIL DOWNING Journal Staff Writer More than 4,100 Rhode Islanders have taken advantage of a recently expanded federal income-tax break for buying a home,......
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- City and state officials will partner this year to clean up World War II Veterans Memorial Park in time for Autumnfest, a......
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The police said they arrested a man Friday morning on charges of felony assault with a dangerous weapon in what they call......
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11:48 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
Passenger traffic at T.F. Green Airport was down 6.5 percent in August compared with the same period in 2008, dropping from 439,137 to 410,788 passengers.......
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- An 18-year-old woman has been charged with stabbing her boyfriend early Thursday after they argued about trust, according to the police. Hermelinda......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The late Allan "Pickles" LePage will be among those honored on Sept. 27 at the annual South Kingstown firefighters memorial ceremony.......
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A 17-year-old robbed a 20-year-old Pawtucket man at gunpoint of $13 in the parking lot at Stop & Shop on Cottage Street......
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The Woonsocket Police Juvenile Detectives are investigating reports of a suspicious person loitering around Fifth Avenue School. He was described as a......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
The Rhode Island Army National Guard is bidding farewell to the UH-1 Huey helicopter, which is being replaced by the larger, more powerful UH-60 Blackhawk.......
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10:38 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- The police are working to debunk a flier that's circulating in the community suggesting a registered sex offender may have been photographing......
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10:20 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- A bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of......
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9:28 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
SWANSEA, MA. -- A 21-year-old woman has died from the injuries she suffered in a one-car accident early Friday morning, and the police have charged......
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Journal photo/ Mary Murphy With belongings piled on a wheelchair, somebody sleeps Friday morning along the river at Dyer Landing, Providence.......
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Rhode Island manufacturing workers in August earned on average $13.95 an hour, down 53 cents from July and up four cents from August 2008, according......
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By John E. Mulligan projo Washington Bureau WASHINGTON _ Rhode Island Representatives Patrick J. Kennedy and James R. Langevin joined a large majority of......
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7:45 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A week after Governor Carcieri and top union leaders announced a "tentative'' pay-deferral agreement aimed at averting government shutdown......
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7:35 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sister Jane Gerety NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- Salve Regina University is celebrating its new president. Sister Jane Gerety will be inaugurated as the Newport......
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7:24 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alex Kuffner Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE -- Although economists say the worst of the recession may be over, the number of jobless workers in......
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7:11 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
EXETER, R.I. -- An occupant has gotten out safely after fire broke out in a single-family dwelling Friday morning. Crews have the fire under control,......
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7:02 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Friday's Providence Journal reports that the state's unemployment rate ticked up to 12.8 percent in August from what was a record high of 12.7......
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7:00 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Friday gets off to a nice start, and the weekend looks great. As the sun rises over southern New England Friday morning,......
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6:05 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Gail DeSimone, who stood accused of helping her art dealer husband Rocco P. DeSimone escape from federal......
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8:10 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michelle Desrosiers has seen many things while driving her dump truck for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, but she probably won't......
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6:18 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
FOXBORO, Mass. -- Gillette Stadium is instructing U2 fans not to arrive at the stadium before 3 p.m. for U2 360 Degree Tour events slated......
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6:17 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
SCITUATE, R.I. -- State police say the two mothers who died in the Sept. 1 rollover accident on Route 295 in Johnston were hurrying to......
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5:57 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
COVENTRY, R.I. -- The Rev. George R. Finch, pastor, educator, historian and drug counselor, died Sunday. Mr. Finch, 71, was principal of the Metcalf Middle......
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4:39 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The 20 people living in Provitents, a homeless camp off Westminster Street, have one week to find a new place to pitch......
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4:36 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Rick Massimo Email
Peter, Paul and Mary performed in Rhode Island several times over the years, most notably at the Newport Folk Festival in the early and mid-1960s.......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Environmental Management on Thursday declared that Conditional Area A in upper Narragansett Bay will reopen to shellfishing beginning......
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3:05 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Gina Macris Email
BRISTOL, R.I. -- The spectacular fire in July that claimed a $1.5 million vacant home on exclusive Poppasquash Road burned so completely that it did......
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2:21 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The chief judge of Family Court has asked the Woonsocket police to investigate allegations that several police officers brutalized a teenager in......
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1:18 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Associated Press Photo Boston University medical student Philip Markoff, center, sits with his lawyer John Salsberg during his arraignment in Boston Municipal Court on April......
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By Jack Perry Email
Raymond Clark III, center, is arraigned at Superior Court in New Haven, Conn. Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 in connection with the murder of Annie......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Statewide Grand Jury on Wednesday cleared two North Kingstown police officers in the February shooting of an emotionally disturbed teenager who......
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11:47 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - New Bedford police are warning food delivery drivers to be extra cautious after a series of assaults and robberies in......
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11:40 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Providence police are investigating the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy who was walking home from school Wednesday. The boy had left......
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11:17 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Transportation reported on Thursday that workers have completed its first American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project, the resurfacing......
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9:56 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
URI president David M. Dooley was not able to answer every question submitted during Wednesday's web chat (click here to read the transcript), but we......
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Harrah's Entertainment, the Las Vegas company that pushed for a West Warwick casino in 2006 and has expressed an interest in operating or owning Twin......
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy Dinghies are tied up along the rocks near the boat launch ramp at Haines Park in Barrington Thursday morning as......
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8:18 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Cranston residents and volunteers from Stop & Shop, the Greater Providence YMCA of Cranston and organizers from KaBOOM! expect to gather Thursday......
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7:01 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
More than 4,000 Rhode Islanders were able to talk health-care reform with U.S. Jack Reed during a "tele-town hall." Wednesday was moving day for......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A chill is in the air Thursday morning, and it will remain cooler than normal as the day progresses. It's 48 degrees......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: A short ship is on its way to Rhode Island to become a tall ship. A Newport......
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9:58 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Eric Tucker Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The chairwoman of Rhode Island's Ethics Commission said Wednesday that the state Supreme Court got it dangerously......
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6:30 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch will be part of a roundtable in Washington Thursday on combating fraud in the mortgage......
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6:30 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Reynolds Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The town had to pay $5,800 to make amends with the corporate owners of a leased office trailer that municipal officials......
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5:35 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
GLOCESTER, R.I. -- State police on Wednesday evening called off the search for a missing off-duty Glocester police officer. Lt. Col. Steven G. O'Donnell was......
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By Tom Mooney Email
WESTERLY, R.I. -- Finn M. W. Caspersen, the head of a financial empire and well-known Westerly summer resident who killed himself on Labor Day, was......
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4:00 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE -- Peter F. Neronha was sworn in Wednesday as the new U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island during a ceremony in the federal courthouse......
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By Peter Lord Email
The Dorcas Place Adult & Family Learning Center has won a national award for its "powerful record of success" in assisting low-income adults in......
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By Gina Macris Email
Nineteen year-old Carolina Correa, who got a second start in life through the Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket, Wednesday has been named national......
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2:37 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, one of a handful of senators who opposed action this week to shut off federal housing funds to the......
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1:36 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The East Providence Education Association has offered to resume negotiations with the School Committee, but again rejected the committee's call for......
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Tent cities have become a symbol of the city's homeless problem, but many other homeless people sleep alone on pieces of cardboard......
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court agreed to stay a judge's order that a Coventry woman convicted of killing two elderly sisters in......
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By Christine Dunn Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city's residential real estate market, though far from robust, is faring better than its commercial property market, according to speakers at......
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By Rick Massimo Email
The Jonas Brothers have decided to make a weekend of it at Mohegan Sun casino in nearby Connecticut. The platinum-selling pop trio of Nick, Keith......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Coaches cleared students from the fields at Doreen Ann Tomlinson Field on Daggett Avenue Tuesday night during a football practice after reports......
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By Jack Perry Email
Providence Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers Sakhi Gattu, of Cumberland, born Aug. 23, is the first of more than 60 babies being moved Wednesday from......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City, state and federal officers arrested 16 wanted individuals in an early morning sweep on Tuesday, state police announced on Wednesday. Carrying......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House and Senate have set new dates for their return to the State House to take up the unfinished business they......
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By Mike McDermott Email
The new president of the state university answered questions from projo.com readers for more than an hour this morning. Here is the full transcript. Dooley......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Environmental Management announced that the test results from one mosquito pool, or sample, from a trap set in......
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By Jack Perry Email
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- New Haven police say they have released a Yale University animal research technician they questioned in the killing of a......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
Associated Press / CBS, George de Sota Kim Zimmer, who plays Reva, second right, and Bradley Cole, who plays Jeffrey, right, are filmed during the......
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By Business staff Email
Richard Parsons Citigroup Inc. Chairman Richard Parsons plans to join leveraged buyout firm Providence Equity Partners Inc. as a senior adviser, according to Bloomberg......
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Eight federal lawmakers signed a letter requesting the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reexamine Woonsocket-based CVS Corp.'s acquisition of Caremark Rx Inc. in 2007. "We strongly......
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By Jack Perry Email
State employee union leaders are telling members to "sit tight" as they try to clarify wording in a proposed agreement with the state that......
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
University of Rhode Island's new president, David M. Dooley, is participating in an online chat with projo.com readers on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 9:30......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There's a chance of showers Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. The showers are most likely before 11 a.m. Otherwise, expect......
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On Sept. 16, 2008 A year ago today: French Gen. Jean Baptiste de Vimeur, compte de Rochambeau arrived in Newport with his troops in 1780......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Moses Brown School will formally install Matt Glendinning as head of school next Tuesday in a ceremony expected to draw more than......
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The full U.S. Senate has confirmed Peter F. Neronha as Rhode Island's next U.S. Attorney. Both Rhode Island senators, Jack Reed and......
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --The homeless people in tents near Roger Williams Medical Center prefer the woods to local shelters, a member of the community said in......
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By Tim Barmann Email
The number of violent crimes committed in Providence rose 19.5 percent in 2008 compared with the previous year, according to new data released by the......
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By Talia Buford projo staff writer WARWICK -- A jury found Robert Payette, 47, guilty of first degree murder Tuesday afternoon in the 2007 stabbing......
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An illustration by Bunny Griffeth from the book The WaterFire Duck. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Kiki and Jim Latimer sat on the stone wall on......
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
An early glimpse at how much money the state is taking in for the budget year that started in July doesn't offer good news. Two......
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By Mark Reynolds Email
PROVIDENCE, RI. -- A North Providence woman was sentenced Tuesday to a 45-year prison term with 25 years to serve, for the murder of her......
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By Andy Smith Email
For a jobs story, Providence Journal reporter Andy Smith is looking to speak to 2009 Rhode Island college grads who are looking for jobs but......
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By Amanda Milkovits Tatiana Pina And Thomas J. Morgan Journal Staff Writers GLOCESTER, R.I. -- Hundreds of searchers have now combed through 1,000 acres of......
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By Peter Lord Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Chip Giller, a 1993 graduate of Brown University, has been named one of this year's recipients of the annual Heinz Award for......
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce said that its members can now band together to buy electricity at lower-than-normal prices. Called the......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The largest state employees union has cancelled a planned vote on Tuesday, and asked the Carcieri administration to return to the......
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By Talia Buford Journal staff writer WARWICK, R.I. -- Deliberations have begun in the murder trial of Robert Payette, the West Warwick man accused of......
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By Linda Borg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe has joined the Briown University faculty. Achebe comes to Brown after 19 years on the faculty......
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
BY BARBARA POLICHETTI WARWICK, RI _ The lights will go on again soon n the stalwart 1800's brick building that served as the offices......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline will join Guatemalan Consul General Carlos Escobedo to celebrate the 188th anniversary of Guatemalan independence in the City......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, will lecture at Brown University on Sept. 22 on "leadership experiences," the university said on Tuesday.......
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By Business staff Email
New England's compensation costs of $33.29 an hour in June were the highest among nine geographic divisions in the U.S., according to new data from......
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Journal photo/ Mary Murphy Julie Robat, center, reacts after she reading her statement during her sentencing Tuesday. PROVIDENCE, RI. -- A North Providence woman......
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "The burden of proof" will be on military leaders if they ask President Obama in......
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By Peter Phipps Email
Downtown Providence was featured at least twice during Monday night's Patriots game. The city looked great from the air. The State House was aglow. The......
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FM Global, the business property insurer, has completed its new headquarters in Johnston and plans a dedication ceremony on Thursday. The four-story, 366,000 square foot......
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Patrolman Michael Gammino was paying special attention to Hartford Avenue storefronts near Merino Street at about 7:30 Monday night, Providence Police Capt.......
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By Jack Perry Email
The New England Patriots start the season with a dramatic comeback win over the Buffalo Bills. Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports how Wall......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It looks like Tuesday will be the last good day of the work week before temperatures cool and the chance of rain......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The collapse of a deck during a college house party in Narragansett was due to overcrowding and......
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By Paul Davis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A city official testified in Superior Court Monday that the homeless camp behind the Roger Williams Medical Center is illegal. The community,......
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ten days after the state budget officer imposed a statewide government hiring freeze -- with no exceptions even for critical jobs --......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation will close lanes on Route 138 on the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge from Tuesday through Thursday, the department said in a......
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By Gina Macris Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island will join in worldwide celebrations of Charles Darwin's life and work with a three-part lecture......
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By Tom Mooney Email
PROVIDENCE -- A fire raced through a second-floor apartment on Washington Street Monday afternoon causing extensive damage to the building which also houses Downtown......
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mosquitoes collected from the University of Rhode Island's Peckham Farm in South Kingstown have tested positive for Easter Equine Encephalitis, the state......
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By John Hill Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Mayor Susan D. Menard announced Monday that she will not seek an eighth turn as the city's chief executive. "Today I......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
The Rev. Dennis. J. Rocheford, 60, a long-time military chaplain and pastor at St. Ann Parish in North Oxford, Mass., died after jumping off the......
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By Gregory Smith Email
CRANSTON, RI -- What if something bad happens at the Port of Providence, such as an accidental chemical spill. Or sudden and severe weather. Or......
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Providence Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman Search teams assemble at Pulaski park headquarters. By Amanda Milkovits and Kate Bramson Journal staff writers GLOCESTER, R.I.......
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By Jack Perry Email
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut's chief medical examiner says the body found hidden behind a wall in a Yale University research building is that......
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By Talia Buford Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- The defense rested Monday afternoon in the murder trial of Robert Payette without introducing any new......
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By Jack Perry Email
Richard Hatch/ AP file photo BOSTON (AP) - Richard Hatch may have won "Survivor," but he's now dealing with his own painful reality -......
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A basement fire in a two-story house at 58 Hazard Ave. on the East Side has claimed the life of a cat,......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man stabbed in the city on Saturday has improved to serious condition at Rhode Island Hospital. Luis Rivera, 27, of 53......
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By Business staff Email
A numerical index that measures the Rhode Island economy slipped in July from the prior month, but is still up from a year ago. The......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Journal file photo / Mary Murphy Kobe long seemed to enjoy the camera. On a hot day in June 2001, Kobe, at 7 months......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Having not yet reached final agreement with the state's unions on a pay-reduction plan aimed at averting shutdown days, Governor Carcieri......
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By Felice Freyer Email
Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires Shannon Blackmon, holds her daughter Aaliyah Herrera, 2, Providence and Therese Stafford, right, Coventry, holds her daughter, Angeliah,......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
By Gail Ciampa Journal Food Editor Ardeo, a Cape Cod-based taverna chain, has opened its fifth restaurant at 1 Union Station, Providence. This almost-30-year-old chain......
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By Donita Naylor Email
At least 600 state and local officials and emergency responders will attend the Pandemic Influenza & Special Needs Leadership Training Program on Tuesday, Wednesday and......
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Obama administration said Monday that it will hold up public meeting of its Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force next week in......
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri has named Andrew Hodgkin as his new chief of staff. Hodgkin will replace Brian Stern, who was confirmed last week......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's official Web site www.RI.gov, has earned top honors in the Interactive Media Awards, an international competition for excellence in Web......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The Woonsocket Police are looking for a man who robbed a Taco Bell employee around 9:11 a.m. as he attempted to deposit......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island have fallen for the second straight week, according to AAA Southern New England. The average price for......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The leaders of the largest state employees union will decide Tuesday whether to seek a membership vote on a proposed agreement with......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three young men are still hospitalized following a car crash in Providence that killed the driver Sunday morning. Joseph A Carpientieri, 20,......
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By Jack Perry Email
DENNIS, Mass. (AP) -- An apparently lost manatee has been spotted swimming in the waters off the coast of Cape Cod for the second consecutive......
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON (AP) -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy says people are entitled to believe his father went unpunished for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but the......
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By Business staff Email
Southwest Airlines, the biggest passenger carrier at T.F. Green Airport with more than half of all the passengers, is expanding again at Boston's Logan International......
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By Tim Barmann Email
We've added a new feature to projo.com that displays all the daily slide shows we've created over the past two years. These slide shows, which......
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By Jack Perry Email
Monday's Providence Journal front page reports that the Rhode Island State Police and Glocester police are searching for a 47-year-old Glocester police officer who......
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The week should get off to a nice start Monday. Expect mostly sunny skies and a high temperature near 77 degrees in......
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
Here's the Rhode Island Department of Transportation's traffic forecast this week. Interstate Highway Restrictions Overnight Providence: Route 95 northbound from Exit 19 (Route 195) to......
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Providence Journal file photo / SANDOR BODO Brown graduates Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini wrote and directed Tanner Hall, an independent movie shot in......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Robert L. Carothers announces he will step down from his post as president of the University of......
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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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By Peter Lord Email
Joseph A. Carpentieri, Jr., 20, of 22 Elm St., Johnston, was killed early Sunday morning when his vehicled hydroplaned out of control and struck a......
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