PROVIDENCE, RI -- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is seeking a 10.2-percent rate increase for subscribers who have direct-pay plans.
The insurer announced this week that it had filed an application for the rate increase last week with the state Office of Health Insurance Commissioner. In [...]
U.S. Army veteran Chris Pinto, 23, steps off the fishing vessel Revolution in Westport, Mass. On Friday, the Work Vessels for Veterans charity presented the 39-foot fishing boat to Pinto, who served two tours in Iraq as an infantryman. (AP Photo, New Bedford Standard Times, John [...]
Courtesy Save the Bay
Save the Bay plans to begin displaying this billboard beginning Monday.
Save the Bay is posed to begin a high-profile campaign to rally Rhode Islanders against a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal proposed for Mount Hope Bay.
The $12,000 effort will feature advertisements on [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prosecutors want a court to dismiss an appeal by Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr., who is accused of trying to hire someone to kill a mob rival and is appealing a judge's refusal to dismiss the case.
St. Laurent wants the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Joseph P. Buchanan spends his working hours reaching out to homeless people who nest beneath the underpasses and hide in the trees next to railroad tracks. Those are the people he and others want Governor Carcieri to meet with, then "step up to the plate" on their [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri is asking Rhode Islanders to help dress the state's Heroes' Tree, which will be on display at the State House's State Room and is to be decorated with ornaments commemorating military service.
The tree is to be lit Friday, Dec. 4. But there's still time to' [...]
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- While the town's firefighters wait for a new contract, they will have to pay more money for their healthcare benefits, town officials said Friday.
Officials spoke about the plans after a Superior Court judge acted on the union's request for a temporary restraining order to protect the particular [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Providence will join a number of cities around the world going red Tuesday as part of the (RED) campaign in observance of World AIDS Day.
The city's ceremony will include a candlelight vigil at the Bank of America Skating Center at 6:15 p.m.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Calling the case "a troubling scenario of money, deceit and financial abuse of an elderly person," the state Supreme Court has refused to disturb a lower court decision that blocks a Warwick woman from doing much of anything with her assets until a civil fraud trial is [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Do you still have stray Newport Pell Bridge tokens rattling around in your car? If so, the obsolete circular tokens can still be of use.
The Jonnycake Center of Peace Dale is asking Rhode Islanders to donate their remaining tokens, dropping them in marked receptacles [...]
Providence Journal chart / C. Eugene Emery Jr.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With gasoline prices stable for weeks, the average price for heating oil rose seven cents in the last week, while diesel dropped nine cents per gallon, according to Friday's survey by the' [...]
Providence Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski
Before Sue Burns, of Riverside, can even get her coats into Cathedral of Saint John Episcopal Church on North Main Street, people are looking them over. A few hundred people turned out for the 13th Annual Buy Nothing Winter [...]
Every year there are more and more events listings for "Turkey Trots" -- road races that are often for charity and always to burn a few of those Thanksgiving dinner calories.
Locally, there is the 10th Annual Trot Off Your Turkey 5K and 1.5 Mile Run/Walk, [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- Two Newport men have been charged with drag-racing after the police say they were racing at speeds in excess of 50 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone on West Shore Road Thursday night.
Patrick Walker, 27, of Malbone Road, is charged with one felony count [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A mother and baby were taken to a local hospital for precautionary measures after an SUV slammed into a home in the Fairlawn section of Pawtucket Thursday night.
They were more shaken up than anything, and no serious injuries were reported, according to Pawtucket Police Sgt. Dino [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rainfall is pretty steady this morning and may continue through most of the morning.
Expect a high near 46 today and be prepared for a windy night with possible snowfall across higher elevations of [...]
The Journal's front page on Friday reports that seniors are feeling the pinch of substantial increases in their health insurance premiums, and looking for answers.
Also from the commerce and consumer desk, long-term unemployment has begun to adversely affect the rate of [...]
By Tom Mooney
Journal stafff writer
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- Don't know what to get that special person?
Boy, you're in the wrong line.
Thousands of eager shoppers, with clear visions of cheap laptops and toys dancing in their heads, crammed through store doors in the wee hours of Friday morning, in [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Three people are hurt in a devastating car crash just off the Niantic Avenue exit on Route 10 north in Cranston. Authorities would not disclose any details about the three people who had been inside the black Jaguar that skidded over a grass [...]
Thanksgiving Day means a holiday for the 7to7 breaking news blog and its staff.
So, projo.com won't be serving up the usual menu of breaking news all day long.
But we do expect to publish as needed, and we'll be on the job if major local news breaks.
As usual, we will carry [...]
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Click here for a list of hotlines that can help.
Wondering just where and when the local high school team is playing its rival this year?
Here's the schedule (and come back later for the scores.)
Checking at the last minute [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
The man who crashed his car into Lincoln High School on Oct. 3 committed suicide moments later by dousing himself with a flammable liquid and setting himself ablaze with a butane lighter, according to a report released today by the state fire marshal's' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri met privately Wednesday morning with the mayors of Rhode Island's four major cities to talk about the state's worsening financial condition.
Rhode Island is facing a projected $219-million budget deficit for this year; the gap is expected to widen next year to $400 million.
The mayors of [...]
The price of single-family houses in Rhode Island continued to decline in October 2009 when compared with the same month a year ago and to the previous month, according to the Rhode Island Association of Realtors.
The median sales price in October this year was $200,000, a decline of 6 [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- School officials at South Kingstown High School ordered a brief lockdown shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday after it was determined that a "suspicious" individual had entered the school.
Robert McCarthy, the principal, said that once the administration was informed that there was an intruder in the building [...]
The rate of home foreclosures climbed in the third quarter of 2009, both nationally and in Rhode Island, as experts say the mortgage crisis is now striking people who had good credit histories, but can no longer pay their bills because they have lost their jobs.
"This started as a real" [...]
PROVIDENCE -- Monday morning, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is scheduled to go to Rhode Island College and announce that more than $280,000 in federal financing is coming to the college's School of Nursing, to upgrade a learning laboratory that simulates a real-world hospital setting.
Students use the lab to [...]
By Neil Downing
Journal staff writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Journal Co. is studying the possibility of charging a fee for a portion of the news and information it currently provides at no charge on its Web site, projo.com.
Howard G. Sutton, The Journal Co.'s chairman, publisher, president and chief [...]
The University of Rhode Island's famed ocean explorer Bob Ballard will be featured on "60 Minutes" Sunday night as he discovers a seventh-century shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. A preview is available on the CBS News Web site.
Correspondent Lara Logan joins Ballard on his vessel,Nautilus, as [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Catherine Rhodes pitched her tent on the State House lawn Wednesday to protest what she says is a lack of shelter and help for the homeless this winter.
The shelters are full, more people are sleeping outside, and some won't find beds when it freezes, said Rhodes, a' [...]
By Talia Buford
Journal staff writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- In an abbreviated day of testimony, jurors heard again from a medical consultant who said that Michael Woods' death was "definitely preventable" had he been given treatment immediately.
Woods died on July 26, 2006, from a heart attack he' [...]
Journal photo/ Frieda Squires
The future tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry docks at Promet Marine Services, Allen's Avenue, Providence after a trip up Narragansett Bay from Newport.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The hull of the Oliver Hazard Perry was towed from Newport to the Port of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With a text-messaging ban and a new drunken-driving law under their belts, key lawmakers are promising to renew their efforts to win passage of bills to allow the police to stop and tag people for driving without seatbelts, and ban the use of handheld cell [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Peter Pan Bus Lines and the union representing its Providence division reached a tentative contract agreement this week that ensures no disruption in bus service this holiday weekend, says a company representative.
There had been some reports that the union's 102 members were planning a strike vote if [...]
CHICAGO (AP) -- Vicki Kennedy tells Oprah Winfrey that she will never run for the seat in the U.S. Senate that was held by her husband for nearly a half century.
In an interview aired Wednesday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Kennedy adamantly told Winfrey that she didn't want the' [...]
SWANSEA, Mass. -- The guy owed money to Gina M. Andreozzi and she apparently decided it was time he paid up, according to the police.
On Tuesday night, Andreozzi, 21, and her younger brother, Anthony, 19, kidnapped the man at gunpoint from a rap-music studio in Bristol, R.I., and drove [...]
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) -- Governor Carcieri is weighing in on the public clash between Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence, saying Kennedy has made "outrageous statements about the Catholic church" and the bishop had no choice but to respond.
The Republican governor, a Catholic and social [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts man who shot a neighbor because he was angry his car alarm went off in the early morning hours has been convicted of murder.
Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos of Fall River was convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday in Taunton Superior Court and sentenced to [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The Fire Department here expected to launch two rescue boats onto Narragansett Bay sometime around 8 a.m. Wednesday to continue searching for a missing West Warwick fisherman, despite the fact that the U.S. Coast Guard called off its search Tuesday evening as darkness fell over [...]
Journal photo/ Ruben W. Perez
Travelers line up to board their train Tuesday night at the Providence Train Station.
If you're heading out of town for Thanksgiving, give yourself plenty of time for travel.
AAA is anticipating a slight increase nationwide in Thanksgiving travel this year' [...]
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- The police arrested a 20-year-old Central Falls man on a charge of leaving the the scene of an accident Friday after witnesses reported seeing his car hit a young bicyclist in the area of Burnett Street and Pleasant Avenue.
Andrew J. Mendonca, of 17 Mowry St., Central Falls, [...]
Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports lawyers will get $59 million of the $176 million that's been offered to settle Station fire personal-injury lawsuits pending in U.S. District Court.
John Mulligan of the Journal's Washington bureau looks at the Kennedys and Catholicism.
The presidents [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Southern New Englanders are waking up to a drizzly morning and that's likely to continue for much of Wednesday, the big Thanksgiving travel day.
The National Weather Service forecasts patchy fog before Wednesday morning and a chance of drizzle before 1 p.m.
Otherwise, expect a cloudy day [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Nicholas P. Manocchio, a ranking administrator with the Laborers' International Union of North America, is suspended from his position as director of the union's New England Region Organizing Fund. The suspension came a day after a federal grand jury indicted Manocchio on a' [...]
WARWICK, RI -- Students who paid $5 to park their cars at Toll Gate High School this year got their money back over the last few days but will still be required to register their vehicles with the school and display a special sticker in order to have a parking [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Massachusetts man already facing state charges for allegedly trying to buy guns from an undercover Rhode Island state trooper was charged Tuesday with a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Colleges and universities in Rhode Island next week will begin vaccinating students through age 24 who live on campus, as the availability of vaccine improves.
Additionally, school-based clinics will be held as scheduled next week and enough swine-flu vaccine for every child age 6 months through 5 years will arrive [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island has received its last shipment of vaccine against seasonal flu for adults, Health Director David R. Gifford said Tuesday.
Some 5,000 doses of injectable vaccine and 20,000 of the nasal spray are on their way to primary-care doctors who did not get their full order. [...]
Associated Press Photo / Stew Milne
Bill Nash, of Springfield, Mass., speaks with reporters regarding pedophiles in the Catholic diocese, during a news conference Tuesday outside the Providence Catholic Diocese offices. In the background from left, are Skip Shea, from Uxbridge, Mass., Paul Kellen, from Medford, [...]
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