EVANSVILLE, Indiana -- Erin Carmone, of East Providence, a freshman at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., finished 23rd Saturday at the national Division II Cross Country Championships.
Carmone, a three-time all-stater last year in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, traversed the 6 kilometer course in 21:33.7, an average of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former gang member who spent the past three months training to become a peacemaker at the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence was arrested Friday and charged with threatening his estranged girlfriend with a gun.
Noi Thao, 29, of 391 Farmington St., Cranston, was being [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- A heating gun to remove paint caused a fire Saturday afternoon that may have destroyed a historic home at 38 Old River Rd., right off of the Wampanoag Trail.
``It's pretty bad,'' said Barrington police Sgt. Josh Birrell. ``It could be a total loss.''
The authorities said that property [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- David L. Spector, a lawyer from Needham, Mass., is under investigation in Massachusetts and Rhode Island regarding allegations that he took more than $500,000 he was supposed to pay banks in connection with refinancings for four clients, one of them a Westerly woman, according to David D. [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A Scituate driver who was arrested earlier this week on a 19th charge of driving on a suspended license, and who was ordered held without bail because he was considered to have violated the terms of bail imposed last month for his 18th alleged offense, is due [...]
Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer
Wayne Jankura of the Providence Parks Department rakes leaves off the watery surface of the Bank of America skating center, which he says is usually solid ice by now. The Rhode Island Foundation building is reflected in the water, which [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri intends to interview each of the five finalists for an open seat on the state Supreme Court before making the appointment, his spokesperson Amy Kempe said Friday. However, he may wait until the new year to make his selection, she said.
A welder works Friday morning in the rain on what will be the Clifford Street overpass over Route 95. The highway was closed Thursday night into early Friday morning to start putting the beams, in the background, into place for the overpass. Providence [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Department of Transportation will remove the split-lane traffic pattern this weekend on Route 95 South, shortly after Exit 6 (Route 3) in West Greenwich, the department said in a press release.
One lane of travel will be closed overnight Friday night on Route 95 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University on Friday unveiled a new supercomputer that is the most powerful machine of its kind in Rhode Island.
The multimillion-dollar IBM computer will be used by scientists at Brown and other educational institutions in Rhode Island to assist research in so-called "grand challenge" problems in [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- Six Barrington High School students have been suspended after getting caught drinking in their hotel room while attending a national leadership conference in Baltimore.
Fifty-five Barrington students were attending the four-day Fall National Leadership Conference of the Future Business Leaders of America, which began Nov. 5, when a [...]
By Talia Buford
Journal Staff Writer
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The injuries that ultimately killed six-week-old Naiomi McCoy earlier this year could not have been caused by a simple fall, a state medical examiner testified Friday morning.
Dr. Alexander Chirkov testified in the second day of evidence in a [...]
By Curt Anderson
AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI, Fla. -- Investors claiming they were fleeced by a high-profile attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit Friday contending that the lawyer orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme with the help of a Canadian bank's U.S. subsidiary and several accomplices.
The 147-page lawsuit, filed in Broward [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Carcieri administration has mounted a legal campaign to keep new Superior Court Judge Brian Stern, a former head of state purchasing and chief of staff to the governor, from having to answer questions, under oath, in a lawsuit filed by the Shire Corp., a major [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- The fiancée of the late Michael Woods testified in Kent County Superior Court Friday that she had no recollection of any Kent Hospital doctors examining Woods during the first hour of his arriving at the hospital emergency room the day he died.
Lisa [...]
The Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers on Friday yanked the license for half of Yellow Cab's fleet and fined the company $100,000 for rolling back odometers on its cabs.
The rollbacks did not affect the fares paid by customers, but allowed Yellow Cab to keep the taxis' [...]
Rhode Island's unemployment rate may have dropped to 12.9 percent from 13 percent in October, but it's still the third highest in the country.
Figures released Friday morning for all 50 states solidify Rhode Island's ranking behind Michigan and Nevada, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Jobless rates [...]
Providence Journal chart / C. Eugene Emery Jr.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Average prices for heating oil, diesel and unleaded gasoline remained virtually unchanged from last week, according to Friday's survey by the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources.
The typical price of' [...]
Journal file/ photo
Skaters take a spin during opening ceremonies for the rink in November 1998.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The outdoor skating rink at Kennedy Plaza is scheduled to open for the season at 11 a.m. Saturday, not Friday night, as originally scheduled.
The opening was delayed [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- An Oakland Beach man was arrested Thursday for allegedly dealing marijuana out of his home.
Juan J. Scott, 23, tried to flush a pound of marijuana down the toilet, as detectives with a search warrant came into his rental home at 723 Oakland Beach Ave., said Capt. Sean [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A local 17-year-old boy is accused of robbing the Coastway Community Bank branch at 2089 Warwick Ave. late Thursday morning.
Capt. Sean Collins said the boy had cut school that day and walked into the bank with a note for the teller. The handwritten note, riddled with misspelled [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A two-car collision near Providence Place Mall stalled traffic Friday morning and sent one person to a hospital with minor injuries.
The accident happened at the intersection of Francis Street and Memorial Boulevard around 9:10 a.m., snarling rush-hour traffic. One driver was taken out of a car with [...]
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- A judge has approved a $100,000 settlement from the city of Attleboro to a teenage girl who claims her wrist was broken during a scuffle with a police officer.
Esther Durex said she was struck multiple times when she was stopped and questioned after leaving a [...]
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy
A welder works Friday morning in the rain on what will be the Clifford Street overpass over Route 95. The highway was closed Thursday night into early Friday morning to start putting the beams, in the background, into place [...]
Rhode Island commuters Friday morning are dealing with heavy rain and flooding conditions around the state.
In Providence, large puddles on Allens Avenue and in the downtown area have slowed traffic.
In Warwick, drivers are plowing through large puddles on Post Road, south of Centerville Road (Apponaug Four Corners), and also [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- Lizzie Borden has been found innocent of using an ax to hack her father and stepmother to death - again.
Borden was acquitted 123-48 by the audience at a mock trial in Taunton on Thursday night to mark the 150th anniversary of Massachusetts [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Thirty-six police recruits stood out among 1,923 applicants.
On Friday, those 36 will graduate from the Rhode Island State Police Training Academy.
The new state troopers have worked 22 weeks preparing for their new careers. On June 22, they began their intensive, paramilitary training, according to Lt. [...]
By Michael McKinney
and Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writers
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Graffiti involving a bomb threat, discovered this week in two bathrooms at Cumberland High School, put the school district on high alert.
But there were no problems reported Friday as staff at a table checkpoint searched high school students, who [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Four athletes selected by their coaches to represent Rhode Island in the Special Olympics Nationals in Lincoln, Neb., next year will appear in person at a fundraiser Saturday to help pay for their trip.
"This is a chance to show support for special athletes chosen on their merits" [...]
By Tatiana Pina and Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writers
WARWICK, R.I. -- Hours after a fatal crash in Cranston that killed one of his friends from the University of Rhode Island, the 19-year-old man driving the car was charged with drunk driving.
Sonny Pham, of 22 Hartwell Drive, Foxboro, bowed his head [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A thunderstorm? Seriously? It's November, not July.
The National Weather Service is serious. We could see a thunderstorm Friday, according to its forecast.
The service says we should expect showers, and possibly a thunderstorm, before 3 p.m. After that, there's a slight chance of showers between 3 [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Rhode Island's unemployment rate last month climbed to 9.3 percent, the highest since 1983, as job cuts in the private and public sectors coursed through nearly every part of the economy, a government report released today shows. Factories, offices and retail stores, among [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
CRANSTON -- An explosion and a break in the main dam at the Scituate Reservoir.
A wall of water moving down the north branch of the Pawtuxet River.
Large swaths of five cities and towns, T.F. Green Airport and parts of Route 95 flooded.
A scenario worthy of a disaster movie -- but [...]
CRANSTON -- An explosion and a break in the main dam at the Scituate Reservoir.
A wall of water moving down the north branch of the Pawtuxet River.
Large swaths of five cities and towns, T.F. Green Airport and parts of Route 95 flooded.
A scenario worthy of a disaster movie -- but [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) --- A new law eliminating mandatory minimum drug sentences in Rhode Island has taken effect without the governor's signature.
Governor Carcieri had vetoed similar measures in past years. But supporters say they compromised on this year's legislation by removing a provision that placed a cap on the maximum [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) --- A new law eliminating mandatory minimum drug sentences in Rhode Island has taken effect without the governor's signature.
Governor Carcieri had vetoed similar measures in past years. But supporters say they compromised on this year's legislation by removing a provision that placed a cap on the maximum [...]
By Michelle R. Smith
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.
Four times as many students went abroad in the 2007-2008 academic' [...]
By Michelle R. Smith
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.
Four times as many students went abroad in the 2007-2008 academic' [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. -- A downtown building that was constructed in 1909 as a YMCA and became a hotel in 1997 has been sold.
According to city land records, Vanderbilt Hall, on Mary Street, sold for $5.7 million on Monday. The hotel, with 33 rooms and suites, was owned, under the [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In a rare move, state Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist has revoked the teaching certification of a Bristol-Warren teacher who pleaded no contest to driving drunk to school one morning, ensuring that the teacher can never again work in Rhode Island public schools.
Kathleen A. Borgia, 43, [...]
National Grid said spent Thursday cutting off power to 5,000 customers so it could replace copper ground wire stolen from its Smithfield substation, just off Route 44.
The emergency repairs affected North Providence, Johnston, Smithfield and Scituate.
Spokesman David Graves said it appears that the theft was ongoing. Workers who arrived at [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A reproduction print of Maxwell Mays' painting "Inauguration Day" will be displayed in the State Room of the State House through Nov. 27, Governor Carcieri's office announced Thursday.
Mays, a well-loved Rhode Island artist, died on Monday at the age of 91. The public is invited to view' [...]
In response to reports questioning the effectiveness of mammography, the state Health Commissioner announced on Thursday that Rhode Island law still requires health insurers to pay for mammograms.
Earlier this week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group of experts convened by the U.S. Department of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In the aftermath of the Governor's veto of legislation that would have given domestic partners the right to make funeral decisions for each other, Governor Carcieri is reminding residents that current law already allows people to designate a funeral planning agent.
"It has become abundantly clear that people'" [...]
The owner of the Providence Place mall said Thursday that it has reached a deal with some of its lenders, allowing a number of its shopping centers to exit bankruptcy by the end of 2009.
General Growth Properties Inc. (GGP:NYSE) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal judge has sentenced two men to prison for being felons in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced Thursday.
In separate cases, Stanley Alston, 39, of Providence, was sentenced on Tuesday to 67 months, and Damon Foster, 35, of Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced Thursday [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. -- A North Providence man has filed a notice of intent to sue the city of Newport over an incident on Sept. 11 in which, he says, a uniformed city police officer shot him with a stun gun.
Under Rhode Island law, a claimant must give the city at [...]
