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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nearly all of the 1,700 state jobs that have been paid for by federal stimulus money come from five departments, state officials......
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By Alisha A. Pina Email
The deadline to take out declaration papers for former Rep. Elizabeth "Betsy" Dennigan's seat was 4 p.m. Friday. Over the last two days, four candidates......
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By Maria Armental Email
Surveillance photo released by Lincoln police LINCOLN, R.I. -- The Lincoln police have released a surveillance photo of a woman wanted in the robbery......
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Considering a career in public service? Or are you simply a political junkie? Head over to Rhode Island College Oct. 25-27 for......
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3:16 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Lakesha Garrett collapses as the sheriffs try to hold her up, at her arraignment in District Court in......
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3:14 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- The West Warwick Police Department will soon have radio frequency devices available for families who have members suffering from Alzheimer's disease,......
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By Kate Bramson Email
Journal file photo/ Kathy Borchers Students with wooden tools and fish they are preparing to fry at the Pilgrim and Native American village in......
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2:43 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (AP) -- A forensic accountant says a Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba diving trip......
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1:35 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The City Council on Thursday approved two ordinances, one that prevents minors from working in adult-entertainment businesses such as strip clubs and......
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1:26 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Michael Janusonis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- "Mistaken Identity,'' the independent film starring Seth MacFarlane of TV's "Family Guy,'' which was originally scheduled to begin shooting in Wickford, East......
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Cold and drizzly, perhaps, but the farmers' market must go on. Shoppers may brave the weather and head to Kennedy Plaza to......
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1:21 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A Superior Court judge on Friday denied convicted murderer Robert Payette's motion for a new trial. Judge Edwin J. Gale set......
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1:16 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bob Thayer Quahogger Michael Ouelette, of Bristol, carefully paddles his dinghy from his skiff in a stormy Barrington Harbor Friday. He says getting the......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - House leaders have posted notice of a hearing Wednesday on a bill to allow binding arbitration as a means of settling intractable......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Environmental Management said on Friday that the fire tower at the Division of Forest Environment's Chopmist Headquarters in......
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Transportation said it has put off most of the highway changes associated with its Route 195 relocation project......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The call came in at 9:18 p.m. Thursday for a burglar alarm at the Harris Public Library. When the Woonsocket police got......
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11:50 AM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alex Kuffner Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Carcieri administration is urging National Grid and Deepwater Wind to resume negotiations over an agreement for the utility to buy electricity......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fire crews were called to a multi-family building on Dexter Street Thursday night for a boiler fire, one of about 15 to......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WARWICK, R.I - A woman ordered to leave Kent Hospital on Wednesday after yelling at staff members was seen shortly afterward speeding near the entrance......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A clothing drive to assist the people of Samoa, which was hit by a damaging and fatal earthquake and tsunami on Sept.......
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
Rhode Island met the federal government's Oct. 15 deadline for devising a plan to encourage the use of energy-efficient home appliances, which will make about......
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By Richard Salit Email
A women's health clinic to be held on Saturday in Providence will provide free vaccinations for the flu and cervical cancer In addition to offering......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A woman is being taken to an area hospital with minor injuries after a one-car accident on Route 95 north in the......
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By Kate Bramson Email
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- Some 2,900 National Grid customers in Barrington lost power Friday morning. Residents in Barrington were reporting power failure in the area of......
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8:41 AM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOURNE, Mass. (AP) -- Newport resident Richard Hatch was released from a Massachusetts jail this morning. The "Survivor" winner completed a sentence for evading taxes......
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By Kate Bramson Email
Live local radar More weather... WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- If you thought it was extra cold and wet on Thursday for this time of......
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Download a copy of Friday's front page in .pdf format. Friday's Providence Journal front page reports that the Rhode Island unemployment rate has hit......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Rhode Island's recession deepens as employers slash payrolls for the ninth straight month and the state unemployment......
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6:40 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rhode Island State Police Lt. Col. Steven G. O'Donnell has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next U.S. marshal for......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- They may not be household names, but they share one thing in common: they are winners of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Several Providence police officers and private security officers received honors at an annual awards ceremony Tuesday. The event was held at the......
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
WARWICK, RI -- The city's Thayer Arena ice rink will not open next week as hoped, now that officials have determined that cleanup from a......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flooding statement for southeastern New England from early Friday morning until noon. The Weather......
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5:01 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Neil Downing Journal business writer CRANSTON,R.I. - More than 50 million people who collect monthly payments through the federal Social Security program will receive......
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Survivor star Richard Hatch is due to be released from federal prison Friday, but he is still fighting his sentence and conviction......
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3:33 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Marley Seaman Associated Press CVS Caremark Corp. says it is launching a program for customers who reuse shopping bags, with card members getting $1......
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By Linda Borg Email
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Smithfield Schools Supt. Robert O'Brien has been selected by his peers to be the 2010 Rhode Island Superintendent of the Year. O'Brien......
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3:16 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The federal government reports that at least 30,383 jobs have been created or saved across the United States as a direct result of federal contracts......
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2:33 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katie Mulvaney Email
Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer John E. McCann III, right, is congratulated by his wife, Marann, and many others after being sworn in......
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By Maria Armental Email
Providence Journal file photo / Mary Murphy Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, left, watches as Monsignor Robert Evans cuts the cake in 2007 at the celebration......
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By Peter Lord Email
Providence is receiving $1.75 million in federal stimulus money to improve energy efficiency in homes and municipal buildings. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced the grant......
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1:54 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --This is the International Year of Astronomy, coming 400 years after the first telescope observations by Galileo, and Brown University is celebrating the......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
Occhi CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Central Falls High School will hold a 2 1/2-mile walk Saturday, Oct. 24, around the city to raise money......
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Curt Columbus, artistic director of Trinity Rep, is assisted by Jennifer Salcido during a live chat with projo.com......
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By Bill Van Siclen Journal Arts Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's baaaaaack! Thanks to scarily strong show of support from local hotels and restaurants, WaterFire......
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BOSTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 9.3 percent in September, as the state lost another 9,200 jobs. The jobless rate in......
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By Christine Dunn Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island experienced a decline in its foreclosure rate in the third quarter of 2009, bucking the national trend, according to the......
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11:37 AM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The police said on Thursday that they have charged a Providence woman with drug offenses. Woonsocket and Cumberland police officers arrested Kathy......
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A Woonsocket man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after he admitted supplying cocaine to a distribution ring in Maine, according to......
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University and its food service workers reached a tentative contract settlement early today, shortly after the union's contract expired at midnight.......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WARWICK, R.I. - - Fifty people were evacuated from Wolverine Joining Technologies at 235 Kilvert St. Wednesday after an electrical box attached to a ceiling......
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A veteran Rhode Island State Police trooper has pleaded no contest to assaulting an off-duty Providence police sergeant at a fundraiser for......
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By Kate Bramson Email
COVENTRY, R.I. -- The Coventry Police cruiser sat idle, with its lights flashing, at Exit 7 on Route 95 north, diverting traffic off the highway......
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By Kate Bramson Email
DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- A New Bedford woman was killed Wednesday afternoon in a four-car crash on Route 195 in Dartmouth when another vehicle crossed the......
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Thursday's Providence Journal reports that Rhode Island students taking a national test improved math scores at both the elementary and middle school levels, but......
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By Kate Bramson Email
By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese police said Thursday they have released an American man 18 days after his arrest for......
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Live local radar More weather... PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There's a chance of rain Thursday, primarily after 3 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.......
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These are stories The Providence Journal is watching today. A 15-member task force comprised of mayors, municipal managers, finance directors, auditors, and financial consultants meets......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: A judge in the British Virgin Islands agrees to delay the murder trial of David Swain until......
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Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy Lon Smart, an East Providence native and animator and artist with Disney, draws a Mickey Mouse for a......
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By Bruce Landis Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal mediator has joined Brown University and its food service employees as they continue to......
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city Board of Licenses wants to hear more in an effort by the Police Department to close a downtown dance club......
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By Peter Lord Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, which has received tens of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds in recent months......
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6:12 PM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state of Rhode Island and its major employee unions have officially ended their court fight over Governor Carcieri's aborted plan to......
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By Gina Macris Email
TIVERTON, R.I. -- An off-duty firefighter who died during an attempted scuba diving rescue in Stafford Pond in 2008 had a blood alcohol level......
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average has reclaimed 10,000 for the first time in a year. The Dow crossed five figures in......
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By Maria Armental Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- A North Kingstown man is being held without bail on charges he assaulted a woman with kitchen knives and raped her. Justin......
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By Maria Armental Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- A Providence man turned himself in to the Warwick police -- cash in hand -- after seeing his photograph flashed on the......
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By Bruce Landis Email
PROVIDENCE _ BankRI returned the $30 million it received from the federal government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP -- plus some additional......
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By Maria Armental Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- A city man has been arrested on charges he left the scene of an accident last week that seriously injured two women,......
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SCITUATE, R.I. -- The police confiscated a BB rifle that they said a 9-year-old boy was carrying around at the Scituate Arts Festival during the......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
SCITUATE, R.I. -- A Connecticut artist pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault Wednesday in Kent County District Court after she allegedly tried to......
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By Linda Borg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island College will open its newly renovated Sherlock Center on Disabilities Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. The new $3.3-million facility,......
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By Maria Armental Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Police Department Commendation Award Ceremony will be held Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Rhode Island School of......
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- Rhode Island's hospitality industry has sustained some serious blows during the economic downturn, but experts say it can expect a slow but......
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By Barbara Polichetti Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- It looks like low interest borrowing made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) may provide the long-awaited solution to......
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12:04 PM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Seven city senior centers hit hard by state budget cuts will get an infusion of $226,541 in federal stimulus money, Mayor David......
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By Tatiana Pina Email
WARWICK, R.I. - A 33-year-old Warwick man was arrested Monday after he had an argument with his 12-year-old son and ended up assaulting family members......
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By Peter Lord Email
WEST WARWICK, RI -- Plans to transform the site of the Station nightclub fire that killed 100 people into a permanent memorial are moving along......
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By Mike McKinney Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing Pawtucket in federal court, alleging the Parks and Recreation Department......
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DAN O'CONNOR Associated Press Writer TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands -- A forensic specialist testified Tuesday that he believes a Rhode Island man accused of killing......
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By Kate Bramson Email
AP file photo Al Martino performing in 2003 SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane......
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Frank J. Williams, the former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, was barred on Tuesday from visiting or having any other contact......
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Live local radar More weather... PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's a chilly morning in Southern New England. It's just 34 degrees shortly before 7 a.m.......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: The state's Office of Energy Resources says the average price of gasoline in Rhode Island is $3.01......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
Philip C. Marshall, the grandson of the late Brooke Astor, a New York philanthropist who spent her early years in Newport, said Tuesday that now......
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By Maria Armental Email
TAUNTON, Mass. -- A Massachusetts man who admitted to killing his friend with a steak knife after a night of socializing and wine drinking, and......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Though it has been months since she left her Newport law firm, Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed is still keeping her......
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Massachusetts-based animal-protection organization is pushing to bring greyhound racing to a permanent end in Rhode Island and by extension, New England.......
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Milford, Mass., man, his wife and their 6-month-old son were at Providence Place mall over the weekend when the man felt......
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Police diverted traffic and evacuated businesses in the area of the Shell service station at Park Avenue and Budlong Road around 1:30......
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By Felice Freyer Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The first shipments of swine-flu vaccine arrived in Rhode Island Tuesday, some at a distribution center and some at the larger pediatric......
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By Kate Bramson Email
GLOCESTER, R.I. -- The body found by hikers in Casimir Pulaski Memorial Recreational Area late Monday afternoon is confirmed to be that of missing Officer......
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By Maria Armental Email
LINCOLN, R.I. -- The Navigant Credit Union was robbed Tuesday afternoon as a woman entered the Front Street branch demanding money, the police said. The......
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By Mike McDermott Email
Veteran linebacker Junior Seau says he has signed a deal with the Patriots, although team officials would not confirm that today. Seau made the announcement......
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE --The chief judge of the Family Court issued an order this afternoon in a divorce case that essentially bars former-Supreme Court Chief Justice......
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A sample from a mosquito trap set at Peckham Farm at the University of Rhode Island has tested positive for Eastern......
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By Gregory Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 15-year-girl, struck by a car in Washington Park over the Columbus Day holiday weekend, is hospitalized in critical condition, the police......
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Get a gadget and a laugh. Tonight at 8 you'll find "Comedy Closeouts" at the Comedy Connection. The stage show is......
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Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers Firefighter Tom Chace helps Jack Wilson, 3, as he tries out the fire hose. Members of Warwick Fire Department Engine......
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By Gail Ciampa Journal Food Editor NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The farmers of the Coastal Growers' Market have decided to make a leap of local......
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline is in Washington, D.C. today meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation John D. Porcari to appeal for......
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By Paul Grimaldi News Staff Writer PROVIDENCE -- Lawyers for the Twin River slot parlor and a greyhound owners association on Tuesday afternoon told a......
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Providence Journal photo / Connie Grosch J. Terence Houlihan Jr. puts on the robes of a District Court judge, at a ceremony in the......
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By Bruce Landis Email
RIDOT photo The major ramps to be opened next Tuesday will carry westbound traffic on Route 195 to Route 95 north. PROVIDENCE, R.I. --......
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By Bryan Rourke Journal Staff Writer NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Twitter away your time by creating a communal audio story. BBC Audiobooks America, which is......
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By Paul Grimaldi Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Twin River slot parlor apparently wants to curtail its simulcast racing operation, according to a......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit the Rhode Island ACLU brought against the state last summer for allegedly failing to......
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Small children have been the target of paintball assailants. Now it's RIPTA buses. Last week, after arresting five people for drive-by paintball......
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WARWICK, R.I. - The facilities manager for the city-run Thayer Arena, which was closed after a Zamboni that was clearing the ice caught fire Monday,......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island fell another 4 cents last week and have dropped for six straight weeks, according to AAA Southern......
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are investigating after a 20-year-old Providence man was shot in the arm while pedaling his bicycle in the city's Mount......
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Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports that a study by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council has found that Rhode Island spends nearly double......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The Southern Union gas company has appealed an $18 million penalty for illegally storing hazardous mercury waste. The Texas company was......
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By Kate Bramson Email
LAKEVILLE, Mass. (AP) -- The Secret Service is investigating after a swastika was found carved into the green on a Massachusetts golf course, next to......
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Five teenagers and a supervisor escaped without injury when the group home where they were living caught fire Monday night. Firefighters were......
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After a great long weekend for weather, rain is expected Tuesday. Rain is likely before 11 a.m., and then there's a chance......
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The two lane splits on Route 95 in downtown Providence that began last week are still the big news in the Rhode Island Department of......
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
These are stories The Providence Journal is watching today. Lawyers for the Twin River slot parlor are due back in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Providence......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Authorities say bones found by volunteers searching for a missing college student in Dartmouth, Mass., are not......
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Curt Columbus, artistic director of Providence-based Trinity Repertory Company, will participate in an online chat with projo.com readers on Thursday, Oct. 15 at noon. Columbus......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
The Columbus Day holiday caps off Rhode Island's last big event-filled weekend before autumn's chill sends us scurrying indoors. Here are some of today's highlights:......
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The two lane splits on Route 95 in downtown Providence that began last week are still the big news in the Rhode Island Department of......
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Thousands of doses of flu vaccine are going out to health-care providers around the state, and public......
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Stop & Shop is recalling pre-cooked chicken sold Friday from its Beverage Hill Avenue store because some of the chicken may not......
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By John E. Mulligan WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy appeared Saturday at a dinner for the Human Rights Campaign that President Obama headlined......
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