By Alex Kuffner
Journal staff writer
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The town could face a $2 million drop in revenue even if the property tax levy is raised 4.5 percent, and the School Department might have to use its savings and stimulus money just to get through the year, officials said [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The judge presiding over the Station fire civil cases will hold a status conference Wednesday regarding the proposed payouts to victims who lost a loved one or were injured in the nightclub blaze.
The victims won't be getting any of their money in time for Christmas. According' [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The high-stakes budget battle that led the School Department to sue the city for more money and then appeal to the state Supreme Court ended Monday with a clear-cut decision for the city.
In a 32-page ruling, the Supreme Court soundly rejected School Department claims that it [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- The police have issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect who allegedly forced his way into a house on High Hawk Road last Tuesday in the belief that there was a stash of money there.
Joseph Doucette, 31, a former prison inmate with a last known [...]
Photo courtesy of Lyndsey Medeiros
REHOBOTH -- Jerry the Turkey, whose owners posted his plight on Craigslist to raise money for a cataract operation, is "doing as well as a turkey does," Lyndsey Medeiros said Thursday.
"He is doing really well, thriving in his environment, getting used" [...]
Nathan Hannon, the former education coordinator at the Rhode Island trash agency, was arrested by the State Police on Thursday and charged with obtaining money under false pretenses.
The arrest follows a Providence Journal story in October detailing several work appointments that Hannon failed to keep. He was fired from [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The former city highway superintendent who did time for extorting money from snowplow contractors wants to spend the holidays with his family after his recent arrest for selling prescription drugs.
Edwards "Buckles" Melise, 61, an ally of former Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. who remains under home [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Two masked men forced their way into a house at 1140 High Hawk Road late Tuesday afternoon and demanded money from a 59-year-old woman living at the house and her son's friend, a private in the Rhode Island National Guard, who stays there.
But the home invasion [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN -- A year ago, Patrick Gannon inspired Rhode Islanders with his plan to feed the hungry.
What if families ate cereal instead of a big meal for dinner? he asked. They could save a lot of money -- and donate it to the local food pantry.
The plan worked. [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Nonprofit agencies in Rhode Island will get $1 million in stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, officials said Monday.
The money will be used to help more than 40 organizations manage their agencies, find grant money and grow during an economic downturn, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Scituate man who pleaded guilty to robbing two banks in Cranston received a 30-month federal prison sentence on Friday, it was announced on Monday by U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
Jason Loyd, 33, passed notes to tellers demanding money at the Randolph Savings Bank on Pontiac Avenue [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Two men with masks, one of them armed with a hand gun, entered the Shell gas station on Social Street and struck the cashier in the head when he did not comply fast enough with their demands for money, according to the police.
The [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University has given a total of $30,000 to three local elementary schools as part of a commitment to pour millions of dollars into the Providence public schools.
The money will be divided equally between Windmill Elementary School, Carl Lauro Elementary School and Dr. Martin Luther King [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal program designed to help low-income infants, toddlers, new mothers and pregnant women will expand in Rhode Island over the next two years because of an infusion of $1.5 million in federal stimulus money.
One of the state's five providers of Early Head Start announced it [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Several residents expressed support Monday night for an effort to consolidate Lincoln's firefighting services. But they wanted to know whether the rest of the fire districts will take seats at a table where representatives from three districts sat at a public forum.
Fire commissioners and chiefs from Albion, [...]
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. -- 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 [...]
If you have money to spend this holiday season, we suggest you spend it locally. The Downcity merchants are bringing it this year.
We already noted that the Calico pop-up shop opens on Friday. Another pop-up shop is RISD Expose, a student [...]
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, 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 [...]
By Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writer
REHOBOTH, Mass. -- Lyndsey Medeiros knows she's asking a lot with her craigslist posting seeking money to help pay for cataract surgery for Jerry the Turkey -- particularly this week, as most people are preparing to eat a pretty large turkey meal on Thursday.
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri together with the state Department of Education and the Rhode Island Afterschool Plus Alliance announced a $100,000 grant to help four urban schools expand the school day and rethink the way it is is organized.
Funded by the General Assembly, the money will go to Calcutt [...]
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' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Financially struggling Rhode Islanders could get help soon from a $1.6 million grant from United Way of Rhode Island.
The money will help low- and moderate-income residents increase savings, earn more and build assets.
The money will go to nine agencies over the next three years, beginning in [...]
