PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A youth was arrested Thursday evening after he allegedly assaulted a bus driver, according to Rhode Island Public Transit Authority officials and the Providence Police.
The alleged assault happened around 7:15 p.m.
Passengers on the Route 11/Broad Street bus were transferred to another bus.
[...]PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Convention Center Authority filed a federal lawsuit against the city this week contesting a recently passed city ordinance requiring that the convention center, the Dunkin' Donuts Center, the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, and three downtown hotels to retain employees for up to' [...]
By Marley Seaman
AP Health Writer
NEW YORK -- The Federal Trade Commission is investigating some of CVS Caremark Corp.'s business practices, the company said Thursday.
The Woonsocket-based drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager did not disclose the details of the "nonpublic investigation," but said it has not violated any' [...]
WASHINGTON _ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse assailed Republicans for "refusing to show up for work'' on the global warming bill that Democrats pushed through a key Senate committee Thursday with only one dissenting vote.
The Rhode Island Democrat said in a news release that California Sen. Barbara Boxer," [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Amos House and the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket will each receive $200,000 from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation on Friday.
The grants will be awarded through the bank's Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, which has committed more than $20 million this year to help nonprofits sustain their [...]
H. Curtis "Curt" Spalding, the longtime director of the environmental advocacy group Save The Bay in Rhode Island, has been named the regional administrator in New England for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- the region's top environmental regulatory post.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced Spalding's appointment Thursday afternoon. The [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- About 40 cats were taken Thursday from a Murray Street apartment. Most will have to be euthanized, said David Holden, the city's animal control director.
Holden said he and other animal control officers went to the second-floor apartment at 68 Murray St. following a complaint by the [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state's director of adult education, Johan Uvin, is leaving Rhode Island after four years to work in Washington, D.C., with his former colleague, Brenda Dann-Messier, longtime director of the adult education center Dorcas Place, now a U.S. assistant secretary of education.
In early December, Uvin will [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - House Democrats have convened at the State House for a closed-door discussion of an issue that was not even on their special-session agenda last week: the state's financial crisis.
In a letter informing his fellow Democrats of the caucus, Speaker William J. Murphy wrote: "The purpose" [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The lenders in control of the Twin River slot parlor have asked a federal judge for permission to hire the former legal counsel for the Rhode Island Lottery as a government relations consultant, according to a court filing.
Robert M. Silva was the Lottery's lawyer for 16 years, [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The City Council knew when it approved new guidelines for lenders to follow when foreclosing on residential properties that the measures might not stand up to a legal challenge.
What they didn't know was that the opposition would come from the mayor.
Mayor Allan W. Fung on Thursday' [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A 16-year-old girl found unconscious in an Aetna Street house Tuesday afternoon remains in critical condition at Hasbro Children's Hospital, the police said.
Rescue crews responded to a report of an unknown medical situation at 5 Aetna St. at 3:33 p.m. on Tuesday, according to a statement issued [...]
BY JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for homebuyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The police are investigating a robbery at the Pawtucket Credit Union at 571 Smithfield Ave.
A woman entered the bank around 2:30 p.m. Thursday and passed a note to the teller. She fled on foot with an unknown amount of cash, Maj. Arthur Martins said. The [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said Thursday he will intervene in the Public Utilities Commission's deliberations over Narragansett Electric's request to raise its electricity distribution rates by nearly 30 percent, an amount he termed "drastic."
Lynch's ratepayer advocate, Special Assistant Attorney General Ladawn S. Toon, testified [...]
Education officials are inviting Rhode Islanders to share their ideas about how to improve schools over the next month at a series of community forums in five different communities.
Deborah GistState Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist is pursuing a portion of $4.35 billion in competitive [...]
By Curt Anderson
AP Legal Affairs Writer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of an attorney suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme.
The firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, released a [...]
NEW BEDFORD Mass. -- A suspect in a drug raid on Thursday fired at and struck a Massachusetts state trooper, whose body armor protected him from harm. That suspect was slain in turn, the state police said in a news release.
Neither the trooper nor the dead man was identified immediately. [...]
BOSTON, MASS. -- A magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on Thursday agreed to hear disgraced lawyer John M. Cicilline's arguments for why he should win early release from prison Nov. 19.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings granted Cicilline's motion for a speedy hearing before the court. [...]
By John Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy said Thursday that he believes that a bill to reverse a U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking special land status for the Narragansett Indians could become law during this Congress.
Enactment of the legislation -- which may have implications for tribes [...]
Reporter Linda Borg is doing a story on the flu and school districts. Have any districts developed online protocols that would allow sick students to keep up with homework and/or class lessons online? If so, e-mail Linda Borg at lborg@projo.com.
Dr. Scott Haltzman, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is going to be interviewed at the top of the hour Friday on the Rachael Ray television show, when he talks about his second book, "The Secrets of Happily Married Women." Haltzman has appeared on "20/20" and the [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Calling saltwater fishing in Rhode Island "a birthright," Governor Carcieri vetoed legislation that would have imposed a $7 annual license fee for saltwater fishing.
The General Assembly approved legislation last week that would, for the first time in Rhode Island's history, impose a license fee on anyone' [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities have charged a Taunton man who brought the corpse of a visitor who had been beaten to death at his home to the hospital.
Nelson Melo was ordered held on $50,000 bail after pleading not guilty on Wednesday to witness intimidation, a law that includes providing [...]
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By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- [...]
Drugstore sales and pharmacy benefits sevices boosted third-quarter profits at Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. by 39 percent.
CVS said Thursday that profits jumped to $1.02 billion, or 71 cents per share, from $732.5 million, or 50 cents per share, a year prior. Net revenue rose 18 percent to $24.64 billion.
Wall [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Law enforcement officials say a series of raids on western Massachusetts massage parlors has resulted in prositution and immigration charges against owners and employees.
State and local police and federal officials arrested three women on prostitution charges and six others for immigration violations on Wednesday during simultaneous [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There's a chance of showers, most likely after 3 p.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
Otherwise, we'll have a mostly cloudy day with a high near 52. The wind will blow at about 5 mph. from the' [...]
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The guided-missile destroyer Cole, the victim of a deadly suicide bombing in Yemen in 2000, wraps up a visit to the Newport Naval Station. The visit is part of a program of bringing Navy ships to the base for naval students to tour, [...]
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