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Bystanders stop armed robber who threatened pregnant clerk, Central Falls...
By Amanda Milkovits Photo courtesy Central Falls police Jason Dias CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- An ex-convict robbed a local food mart and fired a sawed-off shotgun towards the pregnant clerk -- but was...
View ArticleR.I. Health Dept. spokeswoman takes job with Obamacare exchange
By Felice FreyerPROVIDENCE, RI - Dara Chadwick, the former spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Department of Health, has been appointed chief of strategic communications and media relations for...
View ArticleSEIU 1199 files petition to unionize home-based child-care workers
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three weeks after Governor Chafee signed a controversial new law allowing more than 580 child-care workers to unionize, a local arm of the Service Employees...
View ArticleProvidence's suit against actuary allowed to proceed
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit the city of Providence filed against its longtime actuary but is letting the rest go ahead. The city sued Buck...
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Vandals trash flower boxes decorating Pawtuxet Village bridge
By Barbara Polichetti WARWICK, R.I. -- A couple of battered geraniums were all that was left in the flower boxes affixed to the bridge in Pawtuxet Village Monday after weekend vandals tore out dozens...
View ArticleR.I. GOP chairman lambastes economic development efforts of legislature's...
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In the wake of another report on Rhode Island's persistently high unemployment rate, state Republican Chairman Mark Smiley is blaming the General Assembly's...
View ArticlePrices of health insurance on RI's Obamacare exchange released
By Felice FreyerThe prices of the health insurance plans to be offered next year on the Obamacare exchange in Rhode Island are now available. But this long-awaited information varies depending on the...
View ArticleState police drop charges against ex-Warwick School Committee chairman in...
By Katie MulvaneyPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state police have dropped resisting arrest and simple assault charges against former Warwick School Committee chairman and lawyer Christopher E. Friel in...
View ArticleBlaze ignites wood pellet company in East Providence
By News staffFire crews are responding to a four-alarm blaze at the Inferno Wood Pellets company located at 275 Ferris Ave. in East Providence. Journal crews are on the scene.
View ArticleRI Veterans Cemetery gets $658,000 for new building
By News staffEXETER, R.I. (AP) - The federal government has awarded Rhode Island's Veterans Cemetery $658,000 for the construction of a building to house cremation urns. State officials announced the...
View ArticleDoctor details Boston Marathon suspect's injuries
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- Newly released court documents describe the extent of injuries to the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, including multiple gunshot wounds to his face and a...
View ArticleR.I. jury commissioner faces DUI, refusal charges
By Katie MulvaneyNORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The state jury commissioner faces a charge of driving under the influence after state police say the car he was driving rear-ended another vehicle at Route 4...
View ArticleMass. review: More cases linked to lab scandal
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- A disgraced former Massachusetts sate chemist may have tainted more prosecutions than officials had first estimated, an independent reviewer of narcotics cases said Tuesday....
View ArticleRebuilding Liberia: Ten years after end of civil war, nation's power grid...
By Philip MarceloEditor's note: Journal Staff Writer Philip Marcelo spent two weeks in Liberia to report on that country's progress 10 years after the end of a devastating civil war. This is the latest...
View ArticleKennedy cousin Skakel, prosecutors argue murder appeal
By News staffNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Prosecutors and Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's attorney have filed court papers in his 2002 murder conviction appeal in which they disagree about the strength of...
View ArticleProvidence fire chief retiring in September
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The acting fire chief in Providence is stepping down after more than two years on the job and nearly 39 years with the department. Michael Dillon is retiring on...
View Article2 drug raids, 3 arrests, within 2 weeks at Providence house
By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One drug raid less than two weeks ago led to another at the same house in Mount Pleasant on Monday. Providence narcotics officers arrested Jamie Ortiz, 26, on...
View ArticleNew R.I. revenue report hints at improving economy
By Randal EdgarPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new report that compares the state's cash collections for the past two fiscal years is providing at least a hint that the state's economy might be improving. The...
View ArticleIRS closes out audit of RI's $197-million tobacco settlement bond
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On July 26, 2012, state government officials got what Revenue Director Rosemary Booth Gallogly calls the "most dreaded of letters'' from the Internal Revenue...
View ArticleFire in 28-foot RV ties up traffic on northbound Route 295
By Richard C. DujardinCRANSTON, R.I. -- A spectacular fire in a 28-foot RV forced state police to shut down all the northbound lanes of Route 295 for a half hour Tuesday while firefighters battled the...
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