Foster-Glocester Supt. named RI superintendent of the year
By Linda BorgFOSTER, R.I. -- Michael Barnes, superintendent of the Foster-Glocester Regional Schools, has been named 2014 Rhode Island Superintendent of the Year. The Rhode Island School...
View ArticleAOL's Patch local news sites to lay off up to 500
By News staffNEW YORK (AP) -- AOL Inc. is laying off up to half the workforce at its Patch local news sites and shuttering or consolidating roughly 150 of the 900 sites while looking for partners for...
View ArticleState shutters Newport daycare center after molestation charge
By Thomas J. MorganPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State authorities Friday suspended the license of a Newport daycare center where a 17-year-old was accused of molesting a five-year-old girl. The Department of...
View Article2 Providence men arrested on charges of cheating at Twin River Casino
By Richard C. DujardinLINCOLN, R.I. -- Two patrons at the Twin River Casino have been arrested by State Police on charges of cheating at the gaming tables. Robert Rosario, 39, of 30 Hawthorne St., 2nd...
View ArticleA comet has returned, but it looks less promising
By Thomas J. MorganPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Inward bound Comet ISON has emerged from behind the sun, Sky & Telescope magazine reported Friday, but the bad news is that while the object was touted as...
View ArticleMan dies in Narragansett house fire
By Gregory SmithNARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- A man in a house on Algonquin Road, which caught fire, was pronounced dead at South County Hospital Friday night, the Fire Department announced. Firefighters...
View ArticleFire damages Providence apartment building, all safe
By G. Wayne MillerPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An early-morning fire Saturday damaged a three-story apartment building at 205-207 Rhodes St., but the four adults and two children inside at the time were able to...
View ArticleArsonist damages toll equipment at Sakonnet River Bridge
By Paul Edward ParkerPORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- Someone set fire early Saturday to utility lines powering equipment that, beginning Monday, will collect a controversial toll at the Sakonnet River Bridge....
View ArticleHopkinton woman takes top honors for fastest summit in Mt. Washington bike race
By News staffPINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. (AP) -- A Massachusetts man and a Rhode Island woman won the top prizes Saturday in a bicycle race to the summit of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast....
View ArticleRebuilding Liberia: War-torn country marks 10th consecutive year of peace...
By Philip MarceloEditor's note:Â Journal Staff Writer Philip Marcelo is spending two weeks in Liberia this August to report on that country's progress 10 years after the end of a devastating civil war....
View ArticleMan hurt in one-car West Greenwich accident
By News staffWEST GREENWICH -- A man was hurt around 6:25 p.m. Sunday after his car struck a telephone pole and rolled over on Nooseneck Hill Road, police said. The man's identity, and the extent of...
View ArticleRare turtle species found in Westerly pond
By Thomas J. MorganSOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The rare diamondback terrapin has been detected in Westerly's Winnapaug Pond, the University of Rhode Island reported on Monday. URI said in a news release...
View ArticleNaval gunfire to rattle Narragansett Bay
By Thomas J. MorganNEWPORT, R.I. -- Small boats will be firing machine guns this week in the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, but it's the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard at work, not pirates. Coastal...
View ArticleProvidence thief calls car owner 'cheap' when all he finds are coins
By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- All that work for nothing. When Christopher Bataitis interrupted a young man breaking into his Cadillac Escalade on Smith Street late Sunday night, the thief let...
View ArticleProvidence councilwoman assaulted, robbed in her district
By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Providence city councilwoman told the police that three young men grabbed her purse and shoved her outside a yard sale in her district Saturday morning. Carmen...
View ArticleNY Gov. Cuomo's daughters head to Harvard, Brown
By News staffALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The twin daughters of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former wife Kerry Kennedy are off to the Ivy League. Cuomo says Monday his daughter Cara is leaving for...
View ArticleFoul play ruled out in deaths of mother, son in car found in Warwick
By Thomas J. MorganWARWICK, R.I. -- Investigators have ruled out foul play in the deaths Saturday of a mother and child, whose bodies were found inside a parked car in the Fairfax Village apartment...
View ArticleFederal judge approves settlement for BJ's customers in class-action lawsuit...
By Paul GrimaldiPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal judge has approved a settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit against Massachusetts-based BJ's Wholesale Club. The class-action lawsuit shepherded by...
View ArticleRI education commissioner describes progress under Race to the Top grant
By Linda BorgPROVIDENCE - Three years ago, amid great fanfare, Rhode Island announced that it was one of 12 states to win a $75 million federal education grant called Race to the Top. At the Rhode...
View ArticleState Fire Marshal's Office investigating Johnston fire
By Mark ReynoldsJOHNSTON -- Investigators from the office of the Rhode Island state fire marshal are investigating Sunday's fire at a metals recycling plant but they have not yet reported the cause of...
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