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4:24 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina  Email
Towns and cities in Rhode Island are already preparing for Wednesday's predicted snowstorm. As of 4 p.m., the following communities have imposed parking bans: Bristol:......
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4:20 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Talia Buford Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Thirteen communities are expected to file a class-action lawsuit against Governor Carcieri "within the hour" for withholding automobile excise-tax money the communities......
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4:17 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Providence School Department announced that it will close schools Wednesday in anticipation of a large winter storm scheduled to arrive Wednesday morning. The National......
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4:14 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- The death of the father of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was ruled a homicide Tuesday......
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3:57 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Slater Technology Fund, a state-backed venture capital fund that invests in Rhode Island start-up companies, announced Tuesday it is investing $500,000......
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3:50 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The brother of Providence Mayor David Cicilline has been released from a halfway house in Boston, where he served part of......
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3:31 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Supt. Frances Gallo said Tuesday that the only reason she is seeking to fire the entire high school staff is that......
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3:23 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photos / Kathy BorchersWorkers removed the tarps from the salt pile on Allens Avenue in Providence Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of the......
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3:18 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Teachers and about two dozen students who were in school early were evacuated and buses bringing students to school Tuesday morning were......
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3:04 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal Staff Writer CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The spokesman for the troubled Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility announced on Tuesday that......
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2:44 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Just in time for Wednesday's predicted snowstorm, projo.com has added a new feature called Your Daily Commute, which lets you easily view about 100......
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2:28 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Mike Stanton PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state is moving forward with legal action to recover some $75 million that auditors say was squandered at......
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2:19 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I - During his final year in office, Governor Carcieri has chosen state budget officer Rosemary Booth Gallogly as his new director of administration.......
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1:31 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Bryan Rourke Journal Staff Writer The musical ambition auditions of two Rhode Islanders continue tonight at 8 as the ninth season of "American Idol"......
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1:12 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
The four adults and the baby who died in the Warwick house fire on Saturday died of smoke inhalation, the state Department of Health has......
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1:00 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- The West Warwick police Tuesday arrested a sex offender for failing to register his change of address with them. Thomas Denton,......
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12:48 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Saint Philip Church in Greenville is scheduled to hold a prayer vigil tonight in memory of the five people who died Saturday......
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12:23 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Rhode Island receives high marks in a national report Tuesday on how states have spent federal stimulus money on highway projects. A national association of......
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11:52 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- March could prove to be the time Rhode Island begins an economic rebound as the capital city and surrounding communities play host......
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10:35 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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TIVERTON, R.I. -- The Tiverton police have arrested a man whom they say entered a 72-year-old woman's home at night and stole her pocketbook Jan.......
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10:16 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Mary Murphy After sawing a hole in the ice, Mike Hurley, a Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management employee, watches as co-worker......
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9:46 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin has named two key deputies to his Rhode Island staff -- longtime spokeswoman Joy Fox and state Rep. Ray......
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9:31 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Journal Business staff U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, is proposing a new federal agency to monitor risk and exotic investments on Wall Street to head......
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8:38 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As two Providence detectives conducted routine patrols early Tuesday morning, a man dressed all in black and wielding a cordless power saw......
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8:11 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Dublin, Ohio -- A Providence artist has been selected from three finalists to produce a $150,000 public-art project to help commemorate this city's bicentennial in......
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7:23 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Students in Providence and East Greenwich, some as young as kindergartners, raised $3,142 in separate fundraisers to benefit Haiti. In Providence, the Jewish Community Day......
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7:16 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Firefighters called to a house fire Monday night in the vicinity of 17 Huldah St. discovered that it wasn't the house on......
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7:12 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports that Democrats in the Rhode Island General Assembly are expected to vote for House Majority Leader Gordon Fox......
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7:05 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Live local radar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It looks like we'll have a relatively comfortable February day with a high near 37 degrees Tuesday, but......
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6:05 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: Governor Carcieri announces the promotion of Department of Human Services Director Gary Alexander to oversee four state......
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9:57 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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LINCOLN, R.I. -- Two-hundred and eleven teachers have received notices that they could be laid off in a worst case scenario of budget problems......
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8:45 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Saying he can save the state $1 million a year, Robert J. Healey announced Monday that he will return to the political fray this year......
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6:43 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Cranston's two high schools have together raised at least $2,500 for Haiti. Four Cranston West students of Haitian descent, seniors Mirvine Azor......
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6:10 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Richard C. Dujardin Email
TAUNTON, Mass. -- A Fall River man was sentenced to 19 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge in connection to......
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5:38 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lawyer Thomas W. Pearlman, an 82-year-old former Republican legislator and Providence councilman, was ordered Monday by the state Supreme Court to make......
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5:30 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Felice Freyer Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller has reduced Blue Cross's proposed premium increases for its Direct Pay plans to an average of......
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5:05 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. --The state police are pressing forward with a public corruption investigation into the administration of Mayor Charles......
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4:51 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three teenagers who spat on and roughed up a family of four at Providence Place mall have been sentenced in Family Court......
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4:48 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP photo / Kerry Rafanelli In this family photo provided by the Rafanelli family, Amanda Villeneuve, 21, holds her daughter, Anabelle Janik, 7 months,......
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4:38 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE. R.I. -- While he is not pulling out of the race to succeed William J. Murphy as House Speaker, Rep. Gregory Schadone has acknowledged......
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4:37 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Health Department building will remain closed to the public Tuesday as employees and a cleanup company dig through the mess and assess the damage......
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4:31 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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LINCOLN, R.I. - The wee hours of Friday morning was busy for security and police at Twin River. The police arrested eight men after they......
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4:24 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Live local radar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We can expect partly sunny skies and a temperature of 32 degrees Monday, but it looks like we'll......
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4:03 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires Rudy Pauls holds his "Biggest Loser" shirt with Tiverton Middle School fifth-grade students Elias Skrops and Christopher Sylvia.......
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3:52 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A local man accused of stabbing the owner of a convenience store during a robbery Saturday evening was arraigned Monday in Kent......
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3:42 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- Two Providence teenagers have been arrested after an armed robbery at a Domino's pizza parlor early Monday morning. Employees at the Domino's......
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3:38 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Amanda Milkovits Email
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Tyler Baron had recently gotten out on parole for three robbery convictions. But the police say he returned to his criminal habits......
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3:33 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Donita Naylor Email
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island has launched a Making a Difference Campaign to raise $100,000 by asking each student, faculty and......
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3:21 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A show-cause hearing will be held this evening to determine if 848 Martini Lounge & Park Café at the city's historic Park......
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1:46 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Ray Henry Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three candidates running for Rhode Island governor are promising to sign a gay marriage bill should it......
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1:14 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Writers MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) -- The deputy fire marshal of the town where a power plant explosion killed five people......
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11:32 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Email
SCITUATE, R.I. - - Someone broke into Cindy's Diner and Restaurant over the weekend, smashed the cash register and stole 244 scratch lottery tickets worth......
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11:17 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- It's fine-free week at the Cranston Public Library. Return any overdue Cranston Public Library materials -- only Cranston library materials -- at......
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10:41 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island slipped one cent over the past week, marking the third week the price has fallen, according to......
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8:26 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Sales of 90-day supplies of medicines at drug stores helped push up fourth quarter profits at CVS Caremark Corp. by 11 percent, the Woonsocket-based company......
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7:56 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) -- Pawtucket's Hasbro Inc., the nation's second biggest toymaker, said Monday that sales of action figures and other toys aimed at boys......
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7:11 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Monday's Providence Journal front page reports on a fire in Warwick that killed five people. Interest in Brown University has hit an all-time high,......
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6:05 AM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Thomas J. Morgan Email
On the local front: A year ago today: One mast, measuring 80 feet in length and 13 feet in diameter, rested on a barge docked......
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