Journal photo/ Mary Murphy
Radames Cordero bundled up Thursday morning before starting his job at 7 a.m. with the Providence Downtown Improvement Clean Team. Cordero, who was sweeping with other team members around Washington and Clemence streets, said it had warmed up some [...]
AP photoBy John Kostrzewa
Journal Business Editor
Brian Moynihan, a Brown University graduate who worked for Fleet Financial Group in Providence in the 1990s, was selected late Wednesday as the new chief [...]
Red Sox Manager Terry Francona, left, and General Manager Theo Epstein, right, introduce right-handed pitcher John Lackey, who signs to a five-year contract with the team through the 2014 season at Fenway Park in Boston Wednesday. Providence Journal photo / John Freidah
BOSTON -- The Red Sox [...]
Attroney General Patrick C. Lynch has launched a new campaign web site and campaign video, designed to give his bid for governor a high-tech sheen and the beginnings of a message.
The 4-minute-40-second video, filled with testimonials and old family photos, seeks to emphasize Lynch's Rhode Island roots, establish his bona fides on [...]
Photo by Jef Nickerson
Greater Kennedy Plaza is having a Bank of America Skating Center photo contest.
Show us some fun at the Bank of America City Center and be entered to win a Season Pass!
Email us a [...]
AP Photo/ Charles Krupa
N.Y. Times photo
Wen-Wen Lam of LinkedIn may be at a party in San Francisco, but her attention is not.
We can't see the forest for the T-Mobiles
As we consume Apples and BlackBerrys, natural world beats a sensory retreat
Adrian Higgins, WaPo:
You know you' [...]
Providence Journal photo / Connie Grosch
The Most Rev. Robert C. Evans was ordained Tuesday as Titular Bishop of Acque regie and Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence. Almost three dozen bishops and archbishops and one cardinal, as well as hundreds of priests [...]
Providence Journal photo / John Freidah
Bright Night Festival Director Adam Gertsacov attends the Tuesday announcement at Waterplace Park.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- This year's Bright Night Providence festival for New Year's Eve is suddenly looking brighter.
A couple of weeks ago it looked dim. The [...]
Portsmouth HS Chorus at Glen Manor House last weekend. Photo by Andrew Kelly
The Portsmouth High School Chorus, fresh from their spectacular performance at the Glen Manor House last Saturday, will be reprising their holiday concert tonight, Tuesday, at Portsmouth High School at 7pm. Admission is $8/adult $5/student. [...]
In this photo released by the United States Coast Guard, Maya Rodriguez, a veterinarian at Miami Seaquarium, keeps Ilya, a manatee, wet with bottled water after the mammal was put on a plane for a flight to Florida on Thursday, Oct. 29.
The maundering manatee that [...]
During the arraignment of Christopher Hall, 25, of 12 Hollis St., on numerous drug and assault charges, eight sheriffs watched over Hall and the people in the gallery. Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The man accused of shooting three Providence police officers Monday [...]
There's no way to describe just how incredibly huge I am...(confused? see MST3K)
There was a hearing at last night's Portsmouth Town Council on the proposed "Dangerous Animals Ordinance," which had already been through a [...]
On the local front:
Journal photo/ Frieda SquiresA year ago today:
Residents of the Matunuck section of South Kingstown awake to the emotional sight of workers tearing down the Seaview, the building where beach goers for nearly 90 years had showered, changed, played bingo, gone to dances, [...]
Photo from District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation Facebook page
As we get serious around here about getting some streetcars running, we should start looking around at what other cities are doing.
No concrete plans of exactly how the rails [...]
Photos courtesy of Middletown Police Department
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- Ornamental vases valued at a total of $17,600 were stolen from St. Columba's Cemetery, Middletown Police said Monday.
Four brass vases valued at about $100 each, and 35 aluminum vases valued at [...]
Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman
Former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, right, introduces Rhode Island's Rep. Patrick Kennedy as the American Medical Innovation Council holds a summit in Providence on creating knowledge-based jobs.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Academics, entrepreneurs, public officials and medical experts' [...]
I was walking over to Union Station Plaza the other night and heading there through the tunnel when I came upon this.
Crappy photo by Jef Nickerson
A pile of snow right in the walkway. I mean, come on! Seriously!? And I don’t think it is even snow, [...]
Photo (cc) Cayusa
A report by the Environmental Working Group ranks Providence’s municipal water as second best (of metropolitan areas over 250,000 people) in the country. EWG compiled information from water utility tests going back to 2004 in 48,000 municipalities in [...]
Photo by Brian Jepson
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009, 5:30 – 8:30pm
AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
FREE (buy your own food and drink – it’s cheap)
The last Providence Geek Dinner of the decade (yes, _ the decade_!) drops next week, and [...]
Pat Patriot in London in October.A man who plays "Pat Patriot," mascot for the New England Patriots, is one of those charged in the prostitution sting that Rhode Island State Police announced Friday.
One of those charged was 47-year-old Robert [...]
Journal photo/ Andrew Dickerman
Phyllis Solod, of Warwick, observes candles on a menorah during a party for the Jewish Family Service of Rhode Island's Kosher Nutrition Program. The luncheon at the Jewish Community Center in Providence celebrated the beginning of the eight days of the festival [...]
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Journal photo/ John Freidah
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- An open house will be Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at one of Rhode Island's first LEED-certified homes.
The Anawan Cliffs house recently won [...]
The Providence police say the man in this photograph is a suspect in a robbery at 4:46 p.m. Thursday at Bank Rhode Island, 1 Turks Head Place, Providence. The police ask anyone with information to contact detectives at (401) 243-6406.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Call it the [...]
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" [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Journal file photo/ Bill MurphyFrank J. Williams, the chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, stuns the legal community and his [...]
Providence Mayor David Cicilline speaks at the event introducing the Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study. Photo by Jef Nickerson
David Cicilline, Mayor of Providence
Today, RIPTA released their long awaited Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- A member of the Rhode Island National Guard is being held without bail on Thursday on charges that he and another man stormed into a house in East Greenwich intending to rob a fellow Guardsman.
AP Photo/Steven Senne
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady smiles as he departs the locker room at Gillette Stadium after speaking with reporters Wednesday 2009. Brady's wife, Gisele Bündchen, gave birth Tuesday to a boy, her first child.
FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) -- New England Patriots quarterback' [...]
