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By Mark Reynolds  Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Town councilmen decided Tuesday they want more information about a state law that calls for local officials to chart the financial......
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10:05 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A group calling itself the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity is calling on Brown University to "rethink" a proposal to expand its academic......
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8:04 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- Business success stories are not easy to find these days, so elected officials and other invited guests appeared happy to gather at......
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7:54 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Robert Hollingsworth, an award-winning journalist who was managing editor of the Evening Bulletin starting in 1975, died Tuesday at 84 at his......
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6:15 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Of all the places that a man wanted for murder could have chosen to use the......
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5:53 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass., has issued a wind advisory for noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday for all of Southern......
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5:06 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- The wait for a federal decision on whether T.F. Green Airport will expand its runway just got longer. The Federal Aviation Administration......
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5:05 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Henry Peter, general foreman of the Cranston Highway Department, uses the simulator to "drive" a snowplow truck during......
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4:08 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson and Maria Armental Journal Staff Writers CRANSTON, R.I. -- A 6-year-old Cranston boy who was found unresponsive early Sunday morning died of......
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3:54 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Members of the largest state employees' union have opted for a temporary pay cut -- and a delayed raise -- over......
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3:43 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- President Obama has nominated Rhode Island Superior Court Justice O. Rogeriee Thompson to sit on the......
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3:29 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Peter Lord Email
Governor Carcieri and other state officials announced the largest one-time investment in Rhode Island's water and sewer infrastructure Tuesday by releasing $135 million in loans......
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3:07 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
The median sales price of a single-family house in Rhode Island fell 6 percent in August compared to a year ago, the first time this......
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2:49 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Frank J. DosReis, the estranged husband of the former driver for ex-Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, testified Tuesday......
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12:40 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall......
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11:05 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 40-year-old man is being held without bail on charges of repeatedly raping and molesting a 13-year-old girl. Mark Lewis was a......
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9:53 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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WAKEFIELD, R.I. -- The arraignment for David J. Catalano, the man accused of killing a gas station attendant and shooting at a police officer, has......
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9:34 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Hurricane of 1938, the subject of a musical? Yes -- and it's being performed in New York through Oct. 13. The hurricane struck on......
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9:18 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By BOB SALSBERG Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Electricity use dropped nearly 6 percent in New England in the summer of 2009, a result......
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8:45 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate has confirmed President Obama's nomination of Rhode Islander Brenda Dann-Messier to be an assistant secretary of education. The action Monday......
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7:36 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports that the Board of Governors for Higher Education voted Monday night to increase tuition and fees at the......
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7:20 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
LINCOLN, R.I. -- The Lime Rock Fire District's $2.2 million budget for fiscal 2010 survived a taxpayer uprising at Monday night's rancorous and chaotic meeting......
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7:08 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The day is starting out sunny Tuesday, but clouds will increase as showers and possibly a thunderstorm move in Wednesday, according to......
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7:03 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
These are stories The Providence Journal is watching today. Rhode Islanders should find out Tuesday whether the state's largest employees union accepted Governor Carcieri's $36-million......
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6:05 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Superior Court Judge Gilbert V. Indeglia sentences Katherine Bunnell to life in prison saying she instigated the......
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