Detective testifies Providence shooting victim identified suspect's photo...
By Katie MulvaneyPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Detective Shawn Maxwell told jurors Thursday about visiting Gary Ellerbe at Rhode Island Hospital, a week after Ellerbe said he had been shot by a man known as...
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Photo: Preparing for a Merry WaterFire
By News staff Journal photo/ Mary MurphyWaterFire employees Garry Johnson, left, and Mike Allen, with Levy Rollins operating the boat, remove old buoys and replace them with newly painted ones along...
View ArticleCatholic diocese schedules benefit concert to help the needy with heating...
By Richard C. DujardinPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A "Sounds of the Season" concert to benefit Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin's "Keep the Heat On" campaign will be presented by the Gregorian Concert...
View ArticleEast Coast rape suspect pleads guilty to rape, abduction
By News staffLEESBURG, Va. (AP) - A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to rape and abduction in a 2001 case in northern Virginia. Aaron Thomas, of New Haven, Conn., entered the guilty pleas on Thursday...
View ArticleR.I. companies expect trade missions to generate $3 million in sales
By Andy SmithPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee announced Thursday that Rhode Island companies are projecting $3 million in new sales within the next year as a result of recent trade missions to...
View ArticleCranston woman accused of abusing son
By Amanda MilkovitsCRANSTON, R.I. -- A woman allegedly drinking to celebrate her 31st birthday is accused of clawing her teenage son bloody with her newly manicured nails. Wanda Wheeler, of 330...
View ArticleCranston shopping center hosts holiday festival
By Barbara PolichettiCRANSTON, R.I. -- If you want to mix fun with holiday shopping and discovering local artisans, Garden City shopping center has a holiday festival that will run Saturday and Sunday....
View ArticleHearings planned on Sakonnet Bridge tolls
By Bruce LandisPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Opponents of the tolls planned for the new Sakonnet River Bridge will have a new venue on Monday and Tuesday nights at a pair of public meetings on the bridge's...
View ArticleHit-and-run drunken driver to be imprisoned for 6 1/2 years
By Gregory SmithPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Donyale Perkins, a Providence man with a lengthy criminal record, pleaded no contest Thursday to three crimes in a drunken driving hit-and-run accident that left two...
View ArticleBishop Tobin calls Chafee's short-notice tree lighting 'very unfortunate'
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, the head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, has issued this statement on Governor Chafee's midday tree-lighting, with only 30...
View ArticleSon, 18, of R.I. State Police captain indicted in armed robbery
By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The 18-year-old son of a Rhode Island State Police captain has been indicted in an armed robbery of a convenience store. A statewide grand jury indicted Samuel...
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R.I. Gov. Chafee nominates EDC deputy as its new director / Photo
By maria caporizzo Providence Journal photo / Glenn Osmundson RIEDC Deputy Director William J. Parsons, center, nominated by Governor Chafee, right, for the position of director, at the board's meeting...
View ArticleR.I. State House 'expected' to have menorah lighting, too
By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A menorah is "expected" be lit in the Rhode Island State House to honor the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, Governor Chafee's spokeswoman Christine Hunsinger said...
View ArticleSenate approves Whitehouse's cancer research act
By Donita NaylorWASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate has passed, by voice vote, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act, which would coordinate research of the forms of cancer that...
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JetBlue's inaugural flight to R.I. touches down at T.F. Green / Photos, polls
By Paul Edward Parker Providence Journal photos / Bob Breidenbach R.I. native Patricia Socha was copilot of the first JetBlue scheduled flight to land at T.F. Green today, flying the American and Rhode...
View ArticleRichmond forestland preserved
By Thomas J. MorganPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Department of Environmental Management and the The Nature Conservancy have succeeded in placing 245 acres of forestland in Richmond beyond reach of...
View ArticleR.I. Gov. Chafee says no major changes envisioned to R.I. EDC
By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee said on Friday that he is not considering major changes to the state Economic Development Corporation, despite a state-commissioned report calling...
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East Providence police seek man in stabbing case
By Thomas J. Morgan East Providence police photoJasper Williams EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are seeking Jasper Williams, 20, whose last known address was Providence, as a person of interest in...
View ArticleOfficials to rededicate Coventry bridge
By Bruce LandisPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee and the state's two U.S. senators, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, will be in Coventry Monday to rededicate the Laurel Avenue Bridge over the...
View ArticleAfter deliberating just minutes, jury finds 26-year-old guilty of shooting rival
By Katie MulvaneyPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In minutes, a jury found Timothy "Beeper" DeBritto guilty of repeatedly shooting his romantic rival in the back in the early morning May 20. The jury convicted...
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