A year ago today:
T.F. Green Airport will spend $25 million in the next three years to build a new runoff-collection system that will reduce the amount of plane-deicing pollutant that is discharged into Buckeye Brook and other nearby wetlands.
5 years ago today:
Rhode Island's public pension system is among the most underfinanced in the nation. Only West Virginia's retirement system is in worse shape.
25 years ago today:
Claus von Bulow has agreed to divorce his comatose wife. Their daughter, Cosima, will be restored as an heir to her grandmother's $105 million estate. Under a settlment, the stepchildren would drop the $56 million suit alleging that von Bulow tried to kill their mother, Newport resident Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, with insulin injections.