PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A dead raccoon found in Roger Williams Park in Providence last week has tested positive for rabies, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced Monday.
A veterinarian who works near the park found the raccoon and brought it to the state Department of Health Laboratory [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The driver of a car that crashed off Route 295 on June 10, killing two of his companions, said he had been drinking beforehand at Mugshots bar in Providence, a state trooper told the city Board of Licenses Monday.
Trooper Nicholas P. Rivello Jr. testified at the outset [...]
Three Providence residents were arrested Sunday on felony charges of selling pirated music and movies at two locations on Broad Street after Rhode Island State Police seized at least 1,300 CDs and DVDs.
All three were charged with forgery/counterfeiting and piracy and were released from Lincoln Woods Barracks pending [...]
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing Tuesday for Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, President Obama's nominee for an open seat on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
It's unclear whether her less than unanimous support of an American Bar Association committee that [...]
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- A man who told the police that he discovered a dog that had either been abandoned or thrown out of a passing motor vehicle on Hartford Avenue on Nov. 2 has been charged with falsely reporting a crime.
The police said that Paul A. Smith, 50, of 8 [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- The police are investigating a home invasion in which a disabled man was robbed at gunpoint of pain medications as well as credit cards, cash and his permits for driving, hunting and growing medical marijuana.
Detective Lt. Thomas W. Marcello Jr. said Monday that police are [...]
WARWICK, RI -- It doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice -- no one gets official season's greetings from Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian.
Avedisian, who paid for the yuletide missives out of his campaign funds during his first terms in office, said Monday that he stopped the Christmas card [...]
BURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- Local police are looking for a missing Bobcat -- and not the four-legged kind.
Workers for the state Department of Environmental Management arrived at their facility on Round Top Road Monday morning and noticed that the main gate had been tampered with, the police say. Someone had tried [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox, who for nearly a decade has served on the city's powerful Board of Licenses, has resigned as the board's vice chairman effective Dec. 31.
Fox, D-Providence, who is poised to become the next speaker of the Rhode Island House [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In his first public appearance since an escalating a public feud with Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop over abortion and health care, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said all people deserve health care because they are "children of God".
SCITUATE, R.I. -- Members of the Rhode Island chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving will hold their annual vigil Wednesday night at Scituate High School, where they will remind the public that no one is immune from the dangers of drinking and driving.
The annual vigil of hope and remembrance [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- Ray DiPasqule, president of the Community College of Rhode Island, is a finalist for the top job at the Suffolk County Community College in New York, the largest community college in the SUNY system.
DiPasquale, who became CCRI's interim president in January 2006 and was appointed [...]
Richard "DeeDee" Cumming PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Richard Cumming, longtime composer-in-residence at Trinity Rep and one of the more colorful characters on the local arts scene, died in an Indiana nursing home Wednesday, a niece reported.
Cumming had been in ill-health for [...]
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Firefighters are rallying opposition to a proposal to close a fire station on Douglas Avenue, the firefighters' union president said Monday afternoon.
The firefighters' union has a petition with 1,200 signatures on it, said the president, John Silva.
The union learned about Mayor Charles A. Lombardi's' [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- Ray Di Pasquale, president of the Community College of Rhode Island, will attend President Obama's job summit on Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is scheduled to announce that Di Pasquale will represent the state at Obama's White [...]
Torey Lovullo, a former major-league player and minor-league manager, has been named new manager of the Pawtucket Red Sox, the team announced today.
Lovullo, 44, last season was the manager of the Columbus Clippers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. For three years before that he managed the Buffalo Bisons, [...]
Merchants in the Blackstone Valley are forming an association focused on promoting small business by providing technical expertise, advocating for their interests and participating in projects to promote the Blackstone River Valley.
Alfonse D. Acevedo, president of the association, said the Blackstone Valley Merchants Assocation has 38 members so far, in [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --As part of an effort to attract more out-of-state students, Rhode Island College is offering a $6,000 tuition break to Massachusetts students who transfer to the public four-year college from Bristol Community College in Fall River.
RIC President Nancy Carriuolo signed a formal transfer "articulation" agreement with [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- Barrington's leaders are asking residents to join them in a candlelight vigil on Dec. 23 to help the community heal after the rash of alcohol-related accidents that have taken the lives of several young people in recent years.
The vigil is designed to offer a supportive environment for [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A closely held Cranston bank announced Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by a private investment group for an undisclosed sum.
The nine-branch Domestic Bank, which has its headquarters on Reservoir Avenue in Cranston, was founded In 1967. The bank said that it is under [...]
WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) - Westerly Hospital lost $883,000 during its last financial year, but hospital officials say they are on the path to a financial recovery.
Hospital Vice President Jeanne LaChance told The Westerly Sun that the facility's operating loss is down from $1.1 million in 2008 and it has [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A woman's purchase of a large-screen television led her husband to threaten Sunday to kill her with a high-powered military pistol, the police said.
Shortly after midnight, the police said, they arrested a drunken Lester Laracuente, of 362 Douglas Ave., after his wife said he had threatened to [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- The high school was evacuated for about 45 minutes Monday morning following a natural gas leak in the newly renovated science wing.
Peter F. Henrikson, deputy chief of the East Greenwich Fire District, said the leak was apparently caused by a janitor who placed stools [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared all of Rhode Island and several counties in Connecticut and Massachusetts as "primary natural disaster areas" for farmers because of the rain and low temperatures last summer.
The declaration makes farmers eligible for low-interest federal loans in the next eight months as well [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A cardiac specialist called to testify by Kent Hospital in a negligence lawsuit told a jury Monday morning that Dr. Kelli Naylor "practiced well above the standard of care for this gentleman" while she was treating Michael J. Woods for what became [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- A 21-year-old Marine from Barrington painted a racial slur on a sign at the entrance to an affordable-housing development off County Road on Nov. 23, police said Monday.
A police report says that Christopher M. Gaito of 3 Manning Drive told an officer that the affordable housing, still [...]
Providence Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman
Maria Riva selects potatoes at the food pantry of the Providence In-Town Churches Association, which moved Monday to the First Universalist Church of Providence on Washington Street.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city's only downtown food pantry moved Monday, offering [...]
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- Add Scott Rothstein's side-by-side Narragansett houses to the list of the alleged Ponzi scheme operator's properties that federal prosecutors are trying to get their hands on.
Prosecutors filed an amended forfeiture suit Friday against the disgraced Florida lawyer, adding four multimillion-dollar properties to their seizure list, The [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- The two victims of a home invasion Friday night have been identified as Gregory Howard and Michael Scully of 50 Vanderbilt Road, in the city's Hillsgrove section.
Howard, 23, and Scully, 30, were home with Howard's mother, Susan Howard, 52, when three masked men, one carrying [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- AAA Southern New England says gasoline prices in Rhode Island continue to show a pattern of "relative stability."
The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $2.669 at the self-service pump, the same price as last week, and one cent less than the price five [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence police say an elderly Lincoln woman jumped to her death at Providence Place mall last week.
Capt. James Desmarais said Creuz Elen Dehoyos, 79, jumped from an upper level of the mall's Stateside parking area Tuesday and landed in an interior section of the [...]
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- The police have identified the local man seriously injured when his pickup truck left the travel lane on Nate Whipple Highway and struck a tree early Sunday morning as Kirby Sullivan.
They do not know what caused Sullivan, 20, of 63 Ledge View Drive in Cumberland, to [...]
BOSTON (AP) -- Debates, media interviews and a calculated targeting of likely voters will be the hallmarks of the final week in the primary campaign to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The four Democrats and two Republicans battling to succeed the liberal lion face off in Dec. 8 primaries. The [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is scheduled to be in Providence today to give a speech about the politics of health care reform. It's a subject that set off his feud with Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin. The [...]
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (AP) -- The police say they were able to cap off an investigation into a liquor store robbery in Charlestown by finding the owners of two hats left behind.
The police tell The Sun of Westerly that two 17-year-old boys broke into Rippy's Liquor and Marketplace on Nov. 16 [...]
By Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writer
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- The police are searching through missing persons reports to identify a man whose body was found Sunday wrapped in a rug and left in a vacant lot.
Police Chief Michael P. Gould Sr. said a woman who lives in the area found [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Showers are likely Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
Otherwise, we should have a cloudy, but warm day with a high near 58 degrees, the weather service says. The wind will blow from the southwest at 7 [...]
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Patrick's Pub, on Smith Street near the State House, is being sued by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for alleged violations of federal copyright law. ASCAP, whose proclaimed mission is to ensure writers and publishers are properly compensated for their [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts says that a break-in Sunday at her Edgewood home was unrelated to her state position.
In a news release Monday, Roberts confirmed the break-in and said she and her family were away when it occurred.
"There is no indication that this break-in was in any" [...]
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is seeking a 10.2-percent rate increase for subscribers who have direct-pay plans.
The insurer announced this week that it had filed an application for the rate increase last week with the state Office of Health Insurance Commissioner. In [...]
U.S. Army veteran Chris Pinto, 23, steps off the fishing vessel Revolution in Westport, Mass. On Friday, the Work Vessels for Veterans charity presented the 39-foot fishing boat to Pinto, who served two tours in Iraq as an infantryman. (AP Photo, New Bedford Standard Times, John [...]
Courtesy Save the Bay
Save the Bay plans to begin displaying this billboard beginning Monday.
Save the Bay is posed to begin a high-profile campaign to rally Rhode Islanders against a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal proposed for Mount Hope Bay.
The $12,000 effort will feature advertisements on [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prosecutors want a court to dismiss an appeal by Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr., who is accused of trying to hire someone to kill a mob rival and is appealing a judge's refusal to dismiss the case.
St. Laurent wants the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Joseph P. Buchanan spends his working hours reaching out to homeless people who nest beneath the underpasses and hide in the trees next to railroad tracks. Those are the people he and others want Governor Carcieri to meet with, then "step up to the plate" on their [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri is asking Rhode Islanders to help dress the state's Heroes' Tree, which will be on display at the State House's State Room and is to be decorated with ornaments commemorating military service.
The tree is to be lit Friday, Dec. 4. But there's still time to' [...]
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. -- Providence will join a number of cities around the world going red Tuesday as part of the (RED) campaign in observance of World AIDS Day.
The city's ceremony will include a candlelight vigil at the Bank of America Skating Center at 6:15 p.m.
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 [...]
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