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 [...]
In the interests of moving the words ‘Seacrest’, ‘Clarkson’ and ‘Lite’ at least a little further down the page, and because I have not put up a video in while, I give you the Upper Crust who performed at Jerky’s recently and brought down the house. I love these guys.
[...]Is anybody listening to the radio this afternoon? I ask because something kind of nuts just happened on 92 PRO-FM.
Maybe, I don’t know, half an hour ago, just as I was finishing my drive-time singalong with Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone”*, the DJ (I think David Jones) came on with a [...]
Hosts David Higgins and Nicole LeDuc welcome you to Blood from a Turnip, November style. Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages.
$5, 10pm, Friday, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street
[...]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. -- Lisa Konopka, the fiancee of the late Michael Woods, took the stand Friday morning and contradicted testimony by several Kent Hospital employees when she said no doctor spoke with Woods in the first hour he was at the hospital's emergency room on [...]
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' [...]
Apparently we've not given enough blood and treasure to get 'er done.
US lawmakers: New tax should pay for Afghan war
Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts [...]
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Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips. Doug Stanglin of USA Today blogs the roundup (so I don't have to). For instance,
Dealnews is awash with Black Friday information, including a Buying Strategy Guide.If nothing could get you into crowds like that, Dealnews is awash with online' [...]
Curious message today, to the Rhode Island Tea Party faithful, from one of its lead organizers - Marina Peterson. Just ahead of a key organizational meeting for the group, which is trying to shift from protest group to political force, Peterson says she is out. N4N has a call into [...]
State Senator Leo Raptakis is again filing his Inspector General legislation (his previous bill floundered in the Senate Finance Committee). Raptakis justifies this legislation as follows:
“The fact that $75 million in taxpayer funds were lost in a sinkhole of corruption and mismanagement at the Central [...]
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' [...]
Friday — @RISD Tap Room, Juiceboxxx, MNDR, Kokomo @AS220, Minky Starshine, the Red Attire, To the Depths, Last One Standing @Jerky’s, the Empire Shall Fall (cd release), Joint Damage, Diecast, Anubis Unbound, Burning the Canvas @the Blackstone, Route 44, the Wippets, Analogue Transit, Elastic [...]
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 [...]
There is a new report out by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) called Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States. As you may have guessed, it analyzes each state’s tax system in relation to the burden placed on the [...]
One of the many things I learned about on a quick trip to DC this week was about a new project by American Rights at Work. The project launches at 10 AM today: here are details and a link from The Hill:
Labor group launches 'Twitter flash mob' [...]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. -- Suspicious graffiti discovered twice this week in a bathoom at Cumberland High School has 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 [...]
There was a meeting last night of about 30 Portsmouth citizens to form an organization called the Island Park Crime Watch Committee, and according to multiple sources who were present, a slate of officers was elected and bylaws were approved.
Full disclosure up front: Members of this group have been involved [...]
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 [...]
