Truck crash closes westbound Route 14, left lane of Route 295 south
By Donita NaylorCRANSTON, R.I. -- A truck crash on Route 14 has caused the Rhode Island Department of Transportation to close the westbound lanes of Route 14 and the left lane of Route 295 south at...
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Suspect arrested, charged in North Kingstown school vandalism
By Donita Naylor North Kingstown police Joseph Howell, 27. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A North Kingstown man, 27, was charged Thursday in the vandalism Monday during which Davisville Middle School...
View ArticleRI State Police honor fallen, issue awards to troopers for efforts after...
By Mark ReynoldsSCITUATE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island State Police honored fallen police officers at an annual ceremony Thursday and also awarded troopers and honored FBI personnel for their efforts...
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Is Rhode Island only state where campus police are unarmed? No, says...
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Is Rhode Island the only state in the country that doesn't permit its campus police to carry guns? Read the PolitiFact ruling That claim has been made repeatedly in the...
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Theatrical ambitions dashed, old South Kingstown courthouse reopening as...
By Channing GrayProvidence Journal files / Connie GroschThe Courthouse Center for the Arts. SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- After spending the past four months regrouping, West Kingston's Courthouse Center...
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New name on the menu for Carolyn's Sakonnet Vineyard in Little Compton
By Gail Ciampa LITTLE COMPTON Call it Carolyn's Sakonnet Vineyards. Alex and Ani, the Cranston-based jewelry maker, and president Carolyn Rafaelian completed the purchase of Sakonnet Vineyards in...
View ArticleFamily Court judge: R.I. needs more long-term placements for mentally ill youths
By Lynn ArditiPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Family Court's chief judge testified before a Senate oversight hearing Wednesday that Rhode Island lacks adequate long-term residential programs in Rhode...
View ArticleR.I. liquor regulator: Bars may sell whole bottles of distilled spirits
By Gregory SmithPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state liquor regulator has reversed a longstanding interpretation of the law on selling a bottle of distilled spirits in a bar or nightclub. A whole bottle may...
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PolitiFact R.I. rules DePetro's claim on marathon bombing suspect's grave...
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The May 9 announcement that a burial site had been found for the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev led to speculation about the...
View ArticleThe Garage highlighted growing companies
By Kate BramsonBy Kate Bramson and Paul Grimaldi Journal Staff Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Danny Warshay recalls a time when people in Rhode Island who wanted to create their own companies from scratch...
View ArticleConn. woman killed Thursday in collision on Route 6 in Foster
By Donita NaylorFOSTER, R.I. -- A 38-year-old Connecticut woman was killed Thursday afternoon when her red Ford Focus going east on Route 6 was struck on the passenger side by a northbound gold Buick...
View ArticleHope Street bus will detour around Saturday's block party
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Starting at noon Saturday, the Hope Street bus will detour around the Hope Street Merchants Association Festival, which lasts until 7 p.m. Outbound Bus Route 42 will...
View ArticleIndicted Sport Institute director Doyle asks court for OK to go to Florida
By Mike Stanton Daniel E. Doyle, the indicted director of the Institute for International Sport, asked a judge Friday for permission to travel to Florida for a possible job. Superior Court Melanie Wilk...
View ArticleTime Lapse: Bold, cold men in their flying machines
By Sheila LennonThis weekend's Rhode Island history mystery at our Time Lapse blog leads with an illustration that led the Sunday Journal one holiday weekend. See it and a later photo from the event it...
View ArticleBig graduation weekend for colleges, universities in R.I.
By News staffHere's the schedule: SATURDAY Johnson & Wales University Culinary and hospitality ceremony: 8-10:30 a.m., Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence. Brian J. Foye, 1985 MBA graduate, president...
View ArticleCourt empowers new board of directors for troubled Central Coventry Fire...
By Andy SmithCOVENTRY, R.I. -- A court ruling issued Friday by Superior Court Judge Brian P. Stern transfers the responsibility for the future of the beleaguered Central Coventry Fire District from a...
View ArticleRhode Island native named new president of Stonehill College
By Richard C. DujardinThe Rev. John Denning, a native Rhode Islander and the current vice-president for student affairs at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., has been named the college's 10th...
View ArticleNew England First Amendment Coalition urges Holder to turn over seized AP...
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The New England First Amendment Coalition has joined the call for the Justice Department to turn over seized Associated Press phone records. Rosanna Cavanagh, the...
View ArticleSaturday's weather: Nice and dry
By News staffSaturday will be partly to mostly sunny, comfortable and dry. High temperatures will be in the low 70s inland, and low to mid 60s at the coast. Look for partly cloudy skies Saturday...
View ArticlePowerball jackpot, now the highest in the game's history, closing in on...
By News staffDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Less than 10 months after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory once again....
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