NEW YORK (AP) -- The son of New York philanthropist Brooke Astor is to find out if he's going to prison for looting his mother's millions.
Anthony Marshall could face at least a year in prison at his sentencing Monday.
The 85-year-old Marshall tried unsuccessfully to get a judge to throw out [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The storm that dumped well over a foot of snow on many parts of Southern New England has moved away, leaving behind a Christmas card scene and a mostly sunny day Monday.
Expect a high temperature near 31 degrees -- on [...]
Although the snow stopped several hours ago, some school districts in Rhode Island have delayed openings and even cancelled classes for Monday.
In Cranston, School Supt. Peter Nero cancelled all classes after reviewing the condition of the city's sidewalks as well as the clearing needed on all school properties.
As of this [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The ramp from Admiral Kalbfus Road to the Pell bridge is temporarily blocked because a truck has gotten stuck in a snow drift, Newport police said at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
Lt. Dan Dvorak said the department has called for a wrecker to pull the truck free. And, he [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The season's first major storm delivered what forecasters had warned about in recent days -- heavy snow, howling winds, and biting cold temperatures.
But despite accumulations of close to two feet in some parts of Rhode Island, there appeared to be relatively few problems, aside from cancellations of [...]
In case you were wondering -- yes, this snowfall is a record. Here's the report from the National Weather Service at 7:25 a.m. Sunday.
The 8.8 inches of new snow since midnight is a new record for the date... which will be updated later today when the snow stops... probably [...]
projo.com photo / Andrea Panciera
As the snow approached, the last of the garden playthings were belatedly brought under cover -- except for one. By Sunday morning at 9:30, at least a foot of snow made a new mattress on the rope swing in this [...]
By the Associated Press
A slow-moving storm that blanketed swaths of the mid-Atlantic with nearly 2 feet of snow reached southern New England on Sunday in a weekend assault along the East Coast that caused at least five deaths, crippled travel and left empty stores normally crammed with holiday shoppers.
Blizzard warnings [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Winter is expected to wallop the Ocean State this weekend, with a blizzard warning in effect in southern Rhode Island.
The snow is expected to start late afternoon Saturday, with the most intense snowfall overnight. In the Newport area, the National Weather Service is predicting up to [...]
The first major snowstorm of the season is being forecast for southern New England this weekend.
What timing. While it might mean a white Christmas, it may also interfere with shopping, parties and holiday travel.
If you find yourself in the midst of the storm, we're eager to have your reports.
Give' [...]
By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island police officer has been charged with assaulting a woman after she was taken out of a slot parlor for being disorderly, authorities said Friday.
Officer Edward Krawetz has been suspended without pay and faces administrative charges as well, Lincoln [...]
Photograph by Joan Marcus
Chandra Lee Schwartz and Donna Vivino, from left, in "Wicked" at the Providence Performing Arts center.
Even the second time around, "Wicked" still packs a punch, says Providence Journal theater critic Channing Gray. The tour that arrived at the Providence [...]
BOSTON (AP) -- A Boston man has been charged in connection with the shooting death of a teenager from Rhode Island more than three years ago.
Manuel Dasilva was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to murder at his arraignment in Dorchester District Court on Thursday.
Prosecutors say Dasilva and [...]
BOSTON (AP) -- State Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill and his lottery director have spent nearly $400,000 of public money on private lawyers to defend themselves against contract rigging allegations, and could end up spending hundreds of thousands more.
The Boston Globe reports that the Treasury has hired nine attorneys [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's bitter cold in Southern New England early Friday morning, and that might be the most pleasant weather we have over the next couple of days.
It's just nine degrees and it feels like five degrees below zero if you factor in [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The Rhode Island Attorney General's office says the FBI is investigating Providence police after an officer was caught on videotape beating a suspect.
Spokesman Michael Healey on Thursday said a separate probe by the attorney general into the arrest of 20-year-old Luis Mendonca will continue as [...]
By Gregory Smith
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ronald J. Leddy, 48, on Thursday entered a no-contest plea in Superior Court to charges that he murdered Joanna Orzechowski on June 10, 2005.
Leddy agreed to the facts as recited by the prosecutor, Special Assistant Attorney General Kelly A. McElroy, who said [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A South Kingstown man who ran a glass-bead manufacturing business has admitted cheating on his taxes.
David Christensen pleaded guilty Thursday to underpaying his income tax by about $70,000. Federal prosecutors say he hid his income by depositing checks payable to the business into an account in [...]
By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee is taking advantage of the slow progress on the national health care overhaul to meet Christmas Eve for some unfinished business -- including the nomination of Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson to the 1st [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bundle up before going out this morning. It's cold out there.
The temperature Thursday morning is just 19 degrees in the Providence are and the wind -- blowing from the north at 14 mph with gusts up to 20 mph -- makes it feel like six degrees, according [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A federal prosecutor told a judge Wednesday that disbarred lawyer Scott Rothstein, accused in a $1.2-billion Ponzi scheme, may plead to the charges.
No details were revealed during the brief hearing held before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Rosenbaum, the Miami Herald reported. Rothstein did not appear [...]
By Matthew Barakat
Associated Press
MANASSAS, Va. -- A serial rapist responsible for more than a dozen sexual assaults along the East Coast in the last 12 years has been linked to the rapes of two teenage trick-or-treaters on Halloween in Prince William County, police said Friday.
The rapes of the [...]
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 [...]
By Mark Reynolds
Journal Staff Writer
North Providence Mayor Charles A. Lombardi says that Governor Carcieri's latest mid-year budget proposal would cost his town about $3.5 million in revenues, including about $2.5 million in third-and fourth-quarter motor vehicle excise tax revenues and $945,000 in educational aid.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- A former Massachusetts high school teacher has been acquitted of charges that he raped a 14-year-old student.
Michael Holden sighed with relief Tuesday as the New Bedford Superior Court jury foreman announced the verdict clearing him of two counts of forcible rape of a child under [...]
AP Photo/ Charles Krupa
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The cold weather is moving into the region.
It's just 27 degrees in the Providence area at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, and the high temperature will reach just 35 degrees, despite mostly sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service.
The [...]
By Bruce Landis
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city government and the state transit authority have big plans for improving transit service, but officials got a mixed reception Tuesday before a General Assembly committee, some of whose members said they think the state should get out of the transit [...]
By Michael P. McKinney
Journal staff writer
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Mayor James E. Doyle put it direly Tuesday: "Many, many people in my city, and I suspect, of the other cities, are going to be driven from their homes."
Doyle was reacting to Governor Carcieri's latest proposals for cuts in state [...]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The superintendent at the U.S. Naval Academy says the curriculum at the Navy's prep school in Rhode Island has undergone a major overhaul.
Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler tells the Navy Times that students at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, R.I., for the past two [...]
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 [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday.
Chester' [...]
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities have identified the man whose dead body was found wrapped in a rug and left in a vacant lot in North Attleboro.
The police say 32-year-old Henry Octavio Campos Gutierrez was a native of Guatemala who had arrived in the United States with a work [...]
Tuesday's Providence Journal front page reports that three Providence police officers were wounded Monday night in a drug bust in the West End.
Governor Carcieri plans to slash $125 million in local aid to Rhode Island cities and towns to help plug the state's $219 [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect a warm day Tuesday before colder weather moves in and stays for the rest of the week.
The National Weather Service says Tuesday's high temperature will get close to 51 degrees, but the temperature should reach just 33 degrees Wednesday and [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- The Lifespan and Care New England hospital networks, which have been involved for years in protracted efforts to merge, have been granted an extension until March 31 to complete their state merger application.
If approved, the merger would create the state's largest health care and hospital system.
Attorney General Patrick [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The general treasurer's office has turned to an unlikely source to help bring new revenue to the state: eBay.
The auction -- part of Rhode Island's annual unclaimed-property sale -- begins at 9 p.m. and runs until Jan. 11.
As the Journal reported last week, the goods will [...]
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' [...]
Are you sending fewer cards this year for Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa? Have you noticed that people who normally send you cards have cut back?
We're working on a story about holiday card-sending, and would like to hear from people who have made changes in their habits this year, or have' [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A Portland company that manufacturers wharfs is bucking the tough economic times with its biggest contract ever, to build a dock system for a Rhode Island boating haven.
Custom Float Services' contract is worth more than $500,000. It has allowed Custom Float to keep its work force' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island have dropped an average of two cents in the last week, according to AAA Southern New England.
The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $2.659 at the self-service pump, according to AAA's weekly survey.
The price had increased one cent [...]
Monday's Providence Journal front page reports on the retirement of Alan B. Feinstein, the psychologist who evaluated Rhode Island's most notorious killers and
scoundrels as they entered prison over the
last two decades.
Research by a team of local scientists will be brought to the [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Drivers in interior Rhode Island and interior Massachusetts should be careful and watch out for black ice.
After yesterday's rain, clear skies and light wind early this morning helped the temperature drop near or below freezing, leaving black ice on some [...]
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 [...]
