The Indianapolis Star reports (A few fans brave cold to welcome Colts),
The end of the Indianapolis Colts' season came down to 11 people.Not the 11 players on the field during the Super Bowl, but the 11 who showed up at Indianapolis International Airport on a cold, snowbound Monday afternoon,' [...]
PROVIDENCE, RI -- March could prove to be the time Rhode Island begins an economic rebound as the capital city and surrounding communities play host to hoop hounds from around the country.
Thousands of basketball fans are due here in mid-March for the opening rounds of the NCAA's men's college basketball [...]
Towns and cities in Rhode Island are already preparing for tomorrow's snow storm.
The following towns have imposed parking bans:
Middletown -- A parking ban is in effect from Wednesday at 1 a.m. until Thursday at 1 a.m. Vehicles left on the road may be ticketed and towed to allow plows [...]
TIVERTON, R.I. -- The Tiverton police have arrested a man whom they say entered a 72-year-old woman's home at night and stole her pocketbook Jan. 15. He is also a suspect in robberies in Fall River.
The woman was sleeping in her home on Bulgarmarsh Road around 10 [...]
The ProJo has a short piece on the inside pages today on Frank Caprio's gubernatorial campaign releasing results on a single question from a campaign poll: Caprio, according to the campaign, has a 17-point lead on his Democratic rival, Patrick Lynch, among likely Democratic primary voters.
Mike Mikus, Lynch's campaign manager, [...]
Journal photo/ Mary Murphy
After sawing a hole in the ice, Mike Hurley, a Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management employee, watches as co-worker John Fiore measures the ice on Olney Pond in Lincoln Woods State Park. They found that the ice is safe for skating. [...]
WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin has named two key deputies to his Rhode Island staff -- longtime spokeswoman Joy Fox and state Rep. Ray Sullivan.
Democrat Langevin announced Tuesday that Fox is to be promoted to deputy district director for communications and community outreach, while Sullivan will join the staff [...]
Journal Business staff
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, is proposing a new federal agency to monitor risk and exotic investments on Wall Street to head off potential threats to the U.S. economy.
The agency, the National Institute of Finance, would track companies' transactions and positions, and gauge risks within individual firms, said' [...]
Rhode Island Library Association is sponsoring a Legislative Day February 9 on the second floor of the State Capitol building from 1:30 - 4 pm. Come and personally meet with your Representatives and Senators to make a case for Rhode Island libraries. As the economy [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As two Providence detectives conducted routine patrols early Tuesday morning, a man dressed all in black and wielding a cordless power saw at a construction site caught their attention.
At about 12:25 a.m., Detectives Shawn Maxwell and William Corrigan thought the man was tampering with a big electrical [...]
Dublin, Ohio -- A Providence artist has been selected from three finalists to produce a $150,000 public-art project to help commemorate this city's bicentennial in the fall, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Brower HatcherArtist Brower Hatcher, who works at Mid-Ocean Studio in Providence, plans to build [...]
Students in Providence and East Greenwich, some as young as kindergartners, raised $3,142 in separate fundraisers to benefit Haiti.
In Providence, the Jewish Community Day School second-grade class of Susan L. Adler raised $1,450 for Haiti by sponsoring a wear-pajamas day in January.
The second-graders created a flier asking students and [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Firefighters called to a house fire Monday night in the vicinity of 17 Huldah St. discovered that it wasn't the house on fire -- at least initially -- but a 2001 Land Rover parked on the street in front of the house.
About eight feet from the' [...]
Live local radar
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It looks like we'll have a relatively comfortable February day with a high near 37 degrees Tuesday, but it could represent the calm before the storm.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch Wednesday for a storm that' [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Governor Carcieri announces the promotion of Department of Human Services Director Gary Alexander to oversee four state departments as secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Alexander has worked in state government since 1997, and most recently was the governor's' [...]
The Portsmouth Town Council this evening tabled a request from skateboard area opponents to abandon plans for the Island Park playground. By a 4-3 vote, with Dennis Canario, Huck Little, and Karen Gleason in the minority, the Council moved to table any action pending the return of all donations to [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Two-hundred and eleven teachers have received notices that they could be laid off in a worst case scenario of budget problems and state aid losses, Supt. Georgia Fortunato told the School Committee Monday night.
But Fortunato emphasized that "we don't anticipate that anywhere near this amount will'" [...]
Saying he can save the state $1 million a year, Robert J. Healey announced Monday that he will return to the political fray this year and make a third run for lieutenant governor.
Should he win, he has the same plan he pitched the last time he ran: He'll take no' [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Cranston's two high schools have together raised at least $2,500 for Haiti.
Four Cranston West students of Haitian descent, seniors Mirvine Azor and Esther Borgelin and sophomores Rebecca Mislin and Carlynn Pierre, partnered with two student groups -- SkillsUSA and Family, Career & Community Leaders of America -- [...]
Over the last six months or so, The Providence Foundation has been convening a group of what are being called Young Leaders (or Next Generation Leaders or New Leaders) to come up with the foundation’s mission statement for 2030. I have been among [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. -- A Fall River man was sentenced to 19 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge in connection to the February 2007 fatal stabbing of 28-year-old Jason Glover on Dwelly Street in Fall River.
Christopher Fisher, 24, will actually have to spend the next 23 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lawyer Thomas W. Pearlman, an 82-year-old former Republican legislator and Providence councilman, was ordered Monday by the state Supreme Court to make $1,500 in restitution to former clients and to perform no less than 10 hours of community service.
In meting out its sanction, the high court [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller has reduced Blue Cross's proposed premium increases for its Direct Pay plans to an average of approximately 7 percent.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and the attorney general had agreed last month that a 9.5-percent [...]
By W. Zachary Malinowski
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. --The state police are pressing forward with a public corruption investigation into the administration of Mayor Charles D. Moreau.
Capt. David S. Neill, commander of the state police detective division, said on Monday that his department's Financial Crimes Unit is doubling the number of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three teenagers who spat on and roughed up a family of four at Providence Place mall have been sentenced in Family Court to punishment varying from probation to a residential correctional program.
A 16-year-old youth who the police said is an associate of the Goonies street gang has [...]
The Health Department building will remain closed to the public Tuesday as employees and a cleanup company dig through the mess and assess the damage from a weekend flood.
Providence Journal / Andrew DickermanLINCOLN, R.I. - The wee hours of Friday morning was busy for security and police at Twin River.
The police arrested eight men after they got into a brawl at the Ocean Three gaming room at Twin River, according to the Lincoln police.
An hour later a [...]
Sorry for the short notice about this–although if you read our comments maybe you know already–but there’s a meeting tonight at 6pm at Capitol Ridge (the senior high-rise on Smith Street across from St. Patrick’s) to talk about the possibility of making Pleasant Valley Parkway one-way. We [...]
Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Rudy Pauls holds his "Biggest Loser" shirt with Tiverton Middle School fifth-grade students Elias Skrops and Christopher Sylvia.
TIVERTON, R.I. -- Rudy Pauls, second-place finisher in the last season of "The Biggest Loser," visited Tiverton [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island has launched
a Making a Difference Campaign to raise $100,000 by asking each student, faculty and staff member to contribute $5 for relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti.
Donation booths have been set up around in the Memorial Union and [...]
The topline figures in last week's WPRI-TV poll were not great news for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, as he tries to outmanuever Treasurer Frank Caprio for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The poll gave Caprio higher job performance ratings and had him virtually tied with independent Lincoln Chafee in a general [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A show-cause hearing will be held this evening to determine if 848 Martini Lounge & Park Café at the city's historic Park Theatre violated the terms of its licenses.
Police Chief Marco Palombo Jr. said the department called for the show-cause hearing following a Jan. 31 [...]
Jef has posted the 3 proposals for the Wickenden St. intersection that will replace the area that was/is under the old 195 overpass. RIDOT deserves a lot of credit for listening to an initial volley of complaints about their earlier proposal — which was too suburban, and focused on [...]
AP photo / Kerry Rafanelli
In this family photo provided by the Rafanelli family, Amanda Villeneuve, 21, holds her daughter, Anabelle Janik, 7 months, who both died in a fire Saturday in Warwick.
WARWICK, R.I. -- Warwick Fire Chief Kevin Sullivan and state Fire Marshal John E. Chartier [...]
You might’ve caught this ad during that football game that was on last night:
I know these ads are test-marketed to death, but how is this paranoid wignutty vision of an enviro-fascist dystopia supposed to help sell cars? Scare people into it? It almost made me hate environmentalists, and sure [...]
