CRANSTON, R.I. -- The police have lodged additional charges against a driver whose car struck a house on Sunday.
John Viveiros, 20, of Providence, now faces four felony counts of driving to engager, injury resulting, said police Chief Marco Palombo.
Palombo said an investigation showed that Viveiros was headed south on Narragansett [...]
WASHINGTON -- On the eve of a presidential gathering with tribes from around the country, the Obama administration has detailed its support for congressional action to reverse a Supreme Court ruling that denied the Narragansett Indians a special status for land they own in Charlestown.
At the same time, however, [...]
By NEIL DOWNING
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE -- State tax collections plunged over the last four months, yet another sign that Rhode Island's economy is going nowhere fast.
The state Division of Taxation presented figures at a State House conference on Wednesday which showed the amount of money the state collected in [...]
Providence Journal reporter Lynn Arditi is looking to interview families about life on the homefront when mothers, fathers, sons or daughters are serving their country overseas.
E-mail Lynn at larditi@projo.com or call (401) 277-7335. Please include a daytime phone number.
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The Rhode Island Health Department has confirmed that the middle-aged woman who died Monday did have swine flu, and that swine flu is the cause of death.
The woman, who was taken to Rhode Island Hospital over the weekend, was identified by her family as Leslee P. Silvia, 49. She had [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The American Red Cross Rhode Island chapter has launched "Operation Bear Hugs," a new program to help families with children displaced by a fire.
"Almost every other day, one of our volunteer teams responds to a house or apartment fire, and in nearly one third of these" [...]
Kiplinger's Personal Finance on Wednesday announced that Brown University and Providence College have made its list of the 100 best values in private institutions.
Brown placed 12th, while PC was listed as 35th. Both institutions were judged in the university class, of which there were 50 competitors. The [...]
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- A New Bedford seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in fines following a probe into the death of a worker who became caught in an industrial ice-making machine.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Northern Wind Inc. with nearly two dozen alleged violations [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A University of Rhode Island student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that resulted from an incident Oct. 21 during which, URI police said, racial epithets were drawn on whiteboards in a residence hall.
Eric Muroski, 18, of Southington, Conn., entered the plea before Judge Edward J. [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- They cut class at Woonsocket High School to break into a house -- but it's the homework that tripped them up.
Two 15-year-old boys skipped out of their parenting class early Monday afternoon and broke into a house a half-mile away from the school, said Lt. Eugene Jalette. [...]
Jason Yoon and Rosalia Velis of New Urban Arts, the Providence program for teenagers, are pictured with First Lady Michelle Obama Wednesday at the White House, where they appeared to accept an award.
By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- A group of high [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University announced Wednesday that it is offering eligible non-faculty employees an incentive for early retirement, in its efforts to reduce the university's projected $30-million deficit for the 2010-11 academic year.
The incentive includes a lump-sum payment equal to a year's base pay and an additional $15,000 [...]
By Katherine Gregg
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Eight months after he first emerged as a possible 2010 political contender, Republican defense lawyer Erik B. Wallin, of South Kingstown, put the state Board of Elections on official notice Wednesday that he is raising money to run for attorney general.
A [...]
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday to police contract concessions and changes that will afford the city enough savings to bring back the 13 officers laid off in October.
The mayor called it historic.
"This whole long ordeal was about money," Mayor Joseph S. Larisa said [...]
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- A memorial vigil for Marine Capt. Kyle VanDeGiesen, who was killed in a midair collision of two U.S. Marine helicopters in Afghanistan just before sunrise on Oct. 27, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the town's Community Field, at 43 South Washington St., [...]
By Mason Marcus
Associated Press
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands -- A Rhode Island man convicted of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba trip should serve at least 25 years in prison before getting parole, prosecutors in the British Virgin Islands told a judge on Wednesday.
David Swain, 53, automatically faces [...]
By Curt Anderson
AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI (AP) - A high-profile South Florida lawyer suspected of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud sent his partners a text message from overseas apologizing and calling himself "a fool."
"Sorry for letting you all down," Scott Rothstein -- who also has a home in Narragansett, R.I. [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A zoning matter that has prevented the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health from locating in the Grant Building on Main Street is drawing criticism from the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU says its wants Mayor James E. Doyle to rescind [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The end of the "Great Recession" is in sight, but economic recovery in Rhode Island will lag behind its New England neighbors and the rest of the nation, according to Andres Carbacho-Burgos, an economist with Moody's Economy.com.
"Rhode Island, like the rest of the United States," [...]
A family-owned landmark for Rhode Island builders and home do-it-yourselfers, JT's Lumber Company, has been sold to a New York lumber business, officials said.
The buyer is Riverhead Building Supply Corp., which operates nine lumber and building supply stores on Long Island. Riverhead Marketing Manager Gael Harden said the [...]
The state is planning to distribute $8.3 million soon in federal stimulus money to help homeowners and businesses install equipment that will utilize renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, geothermal pumps, biomass and waste to energy generators and hydro power.
It's too soon to apply for the grants [...]
MinuteClinic will move its headquarters next year from Minneapolis to Woonsocket, R.I, eliminating 150 jobs in Minneapolis, the Star-Tribune newspaper there reported in Wednesday's edition.
The company pioneered low-cost kiosks staffed by nurse practitioners in 2000 in Minnesota, spawning a national industry in retail clinics. Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning concerning child-support payments in the divorce case of the former driver for retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams was continued to next week.
John D. Lynch, lawyer for Pamela J. DosReis, said the next court date on the matter will [...]
Children under 18 and anyone exhibiting flu-like symptoms are prohibited from visiting patients at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence and Westerly Hospital as a precautionary measure against spreading swine flu, the hospitals announced Wednesday.
Westerly Hospital also announced that it will allow those under 18 to visit [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When Ray LaMontagne does a solo show, one of the side effects of not having a band onstage with him is, "I can't shut up." That's what he said Tuesday night at the Providence Performing Arts Center, and the New Hampshire native sure did talk a' [...]
Photo courtesy of Barbara Lakeberg
Lucy at veterinarians in Sumel, Iraq in October 2009.
SCITUATE, R.I. - - Barbara Lakeberg saw the puppy in the middle of the road when she was driving from Sheikhan to her office in Erbil, Iraq, where she worked as [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Lottery Director Gerald Aubin has approved 24-hour gambling, seven days a week at the Twin River greyhound track-and-slot parlor.
Convinced the state Lottery has the authority to extend the hours on its own without legislative approval, Aubin, in an interview Wednesday, said he was moving ahead to [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Melissa Gabriele knows funerals are expensive, and she was worried about how a friend she has known since junior high would pay for her daughter's funeral after the girl died over the weekend.
The friend's daughter -- Skyla J. Reposa-Alves, a seventh-grader at Lincoln Middle School [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The police are investigating after a teenage girl was found unconscious Tuesday afternoon in a ranch-style home at 5 Aetna St.
The 16-year-old girl was taken to Hasbro Children's Hospital for treatment and remains there Wednesday morning, Col. Marco Palombo Jr. said. The police chief said he does' [...]
By Tatiana Pina
Journal Staff Writer
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - The police have identified a woman who was found unconscious Tuesday night on West Avenue, and later died, as Patricia Tremblay, 30, of 8 George St.
Tremblay was found lying partially on the street and partially on the sidewalk near Main Street, according [...]
Live local radar
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We should enjoy another comfortable day Wednesday, although there's a chance of snow Thursday and rain showers are in the forecast Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
Expect a sunny day with a high temperature near 54 degrees [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Rhode Islanders make history, turning out overwhelmingly for Democrat Barack Obama and committing the Ocean State's four electoral votes to the first African-American to be elected president of the United States. Statewide turnout neared unprecedented levels, even though pollsters for weeks had seen [...]
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