New ferry service to link Newport and Block Island
By News staffNEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- A new high-speed ferry service will soon link Newport and Block Island. The Block Island Ferry is scheduled to begin the new service on Saturday. The ferry will...
View ArticleChafee nominates lawyer for position on R.I. utilities panel
By Alex KuffnerPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee is proposing to make another new addition to the state Public Utilities Commission. Chafee has nominated lawyer Herbert F. DeSimone Jr. to replace...
View ArticleEast Greenwich's Odeum Theater puts summer season on hold
By Barbara PolichettiEAST GREENWICH -- Six months after its long-awaited reopening, the historic Odeum Theater is calling for an intermission and putting its summer season on hold in order to plan for...
View ArticleChallenger alleges Fox 'lied' about extent of his role in 38 Studios
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox's once-and-future opponent, Mark Binder, says newly released documents are proof Fox had a larger role in pitching the state's failed...
View ArticleLawyer: Talks with rating agencies were after 38 Studios votes
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Handwritten notes of conversations that House Speaker Gordon D. Fox and Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed had in September 2010 about the 38 Studios bonds,...
View ArticleR.I. approves advancing Woonsocket funds to help city close budget
By John HillWOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The city's state appointed budget commission announced this afternoon that the state had approved advancing the city about $12 million in next year's education aid to...
View ArticleMan sentenced on DUI charge in fatal crash
By News staffSOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) -- A South Kingstown man has been ordered to serve seven years on a drunken driving charge in an accident that killed a University of Rhode Island student in...
View ArticleCritics at R.I. State House protest 38 Studios budget payment
By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Members of Occupy Providence and other opponents of the state's failed investment in the now-bankrupt video game company 38 Studios were at the State House on...
View ArticleJames 'Whitey' Bulger trial: Jury shown his FBI informant file
By News staffBy DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Excerpts from James "Whitey" Bulger's FBI informant file presented to the jury at his racketeering trial Monday show Bulger secretly...
View Article37 cooling centers will help Rhode Islanders deal with heat
By Richard C. DujardinCRANSTON, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Emergency Management issued an updated list of cooling centers that will be open during the next few days to help Rhode Islanders cope with the...
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MP officer from Barrington briefs Secretary of Army in Afghanistan
By Donita Naylor Photo courtesy 401st Army Field Support Brigade Specialist Edwin C. Kilcline, of Barrington, right, briefs U.S. Secretary of the Army John McHugh at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan....
View ArticleHernandez's attorney releases statement calling out media
By Sports staffMichael F. Fee, attorney for Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, has released a statement tonight, faulting the media's coverage of the murder investigation that involves his client. The...
View ArticleCentral Falls mayor's budget clears City Council, 4-1
By News staff CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The City Council, by a 4-1 margin, approved on Monday night Mayor James A. Diossa's first budget since he was elected to the city's highest administrative post in...
View ArticleLegislation would ban 'prone' restraints in R.I. schools
By Lynn ArditiRoughly 7,000 times a year children and teenagers in Rhode Island public schools and publicly-funded education programs are physically restrained during school, state data shows. A...
View ArticleIf Sakonnet River Bridge tolling is delayed, tolls on other bridges might...
By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The chairman of the state Turnpike and Bridge Authority warned Tuesday that the quasi public agency might be forced to raise tolls on other state bridges if...
View ArticleState Senate votes to extend RI's mandatory seatbelt law
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Senate voted 29 to 8 Tuesday to repeal the expiration of a law that allows the police to stop drivers just for failing to wear a seat belt, but in a different...
View ArticleWarren Town Beach, Oakland Beach in Warwick closed to swimming
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Warren Town Beach and Oakland Beach in Warwick have been ruled too polluted for swimming, a news release by the Rhode Island Department of Health announced Tuesday....
View ArticleR.I. House OKs $10 million for road and bridge revolving fund
By Randal EdgarPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House voted 70 to 4 Tuesday to support a budget article that establishes a $10 million "Municipal Road and Bridge Revolving Fund." Legislative leaders added the...
View ArticleVideo: R.I. food bloggers encourage cooking with state's iconic foods
By maria caporizzo Providence Journal video by Sandor Bodo WESTERLY, R.I. -- 6.25.2013: In Westerly, Jennifer Leal and Lydia Walshin are food bloggers and the authors of "Rhode Island Recipes." They...
View ArticleR.I. House favors reviving historic tax-credit program for commercial...
By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. - After a more than two-hour debate, the state House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a budget provision reviving the state's historic tax-credit program for...
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