RI Secretary of State Ralph Mollis (D) announced his intention to seek a second term in a story in today's Providence Journal and a post to his Facebook page.
I've had a number of interactions with Mollis's office over the last couple of years, and have always been impressed' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's not quite spring yet, but we'll have a perfect spring day on this Wednesday.
We can expect a mostly sunny day with a high near 68 degrees, not far from the record of 71 set in 1999, according to the National Weather Service. The wind' [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
Filming begins in downtown Providence on one of two TV pilots being shot in Rhode Island. The production trucks for "House Rules," about five freshman members of Congress, lined Exchange and Sabin Streets. And inside the Westin Providence hotel, crews directed the sun, [...]
From RI Jobs With Justice:
The owners of the Westin Hotel have imposed a contract on Westin workers that cuts wages twenty percent for all workers, raises employees’ health insurance costs (triples or quadruples the cost), and significantly cuts employees’ sick days, vacations and holidays. This contract also [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The grandfather of the 23-year-old Dedham man whose body was discovered by friends, partly submerged, in a secluded section of the fast-moving Woonasquatucket River Tuesday said the police told him Wednesday that they are treating Gregory Hart's death as a homicide.
But Major Thomas F. Oates III, [...]
Slouchy and gravelly, Mr. Chilton had a #1 hit at the age of sixteen with “The Letter.” He went on to a critically acclaimed (if not commercially very successful) career, first with Big Star and then solo; a younger generation knows his name best from a 1987 college rock hit [...]
According to the company and the union, the new terms would [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mike "Mex" Carey, 38, Georgetown's sports information director, and Bill Shapland, the university's communications director, stood in the lobby of the Renaissance Providence Hotel, where Georgetown's team and staff are staying, conducting business on a cell phone that they handed back and forth.
Because Providence College is one [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- TV stations from Philadelphia and Knoxville, Tenn., used the front of the Dunkin' Donuts Center as backdrop Wednesday as their sports reporters sent word of local teams in the NCAA basketball tournament to the fans back home.
Rick Russo and cameraman Alston Price,were here from WVLT-TV, the' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nathan Ferrick, 11, of Seekonk, Mass., was on a mission at the Dunkin' Donuts Center Wednesday afternoon as teams practiced for the NCAA basketball tournament later this week. His dad had bought him a miniature basketball in white, blue and yellow, and Nathan was out to score' [...]
By Mike Szostak
and Maria Armental
Journal Staff
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Interscholastic League Principals Committee on Athletics has denied the Cranston School Department's request for an eligibility waiver that would have allowed the consolidation of teams at the city's two high schools.
The committee voted 10-0 Wednesday to [...]
By Donita Naylor
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Wearing big new Patriots jerseys, Tom Brady and Vince Wilfork sat in the front row watching NCAA tourney practice. Wait -- it wasn't really the New England Patriots players, but Johnson & Wales University students wearing their football jerseys.
Oscar Hernandez, 18, of' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Opening statements in the first-degree sexual assault trial of a Providence police officer are set to begin Thursday morning.
Marcus Huffman, 39, is accused of raping a 19-year-old intoxicated woman who had been denied access to a Providence club on March 18, 2007.
Huffman was suspended [...]
By John Hill
Journal staff writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As some of the early St. Patrick's Day crowd peered at them through the curtains of Patrick's Pub on Smith Street, law-enforcement officials held an outdoor news conference calling on the city's revelers and its bar owners to make extra efforts to [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- J. David Smith, director of the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency, is recommending that those most affected by the recent storm and subsequent flooding call 211 with any questions. An EMA news release says that United Way 2-1-1 specialists will take calls and help citizens complete damage [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Under normal circumstances, it's the Providence Biltmore Hotel. As the host hotel for the Villanova University basketball team playing this week in the NCAA tournament, it's temporarily become Villanova-land.
The blue-and-white colors of Villanova are everywhere you look in the lobby -- balloon arrangements, posters with big [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Her neck bedecked in a green plastic necklace that spelled out: "Kiss Me I'm Irish" and his hand still holding a bottle-opener-keychain with the Smithwicks logo, the couple hurried up Sabin Street.
Their goal: Sweaters in their car. They had just been at Ri Ra Irish Pub' [...]
Head over to the Daily Dose to see what Rep. Segal is up to lately.
Of special interest to readers here, is the Demolition Bonds Bill:
H7584 would allow cities and towns to require demolition bonds and other assurances from developers that want [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Debbie Kelly of Basking Ridge, N.J., was perfectly dressed for the day downtown. She had on a green hat with a shamrock that read "Villanova," one of the college teams playing in the NCAA tournament in the Dunkin' Donuts Center this week.
She wore a black-and-green T-shirt that' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bob and May Fricklas of North Kingstown arrived at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, where the NCAA basketball tournament is to be held starting Thursday, to watch Georgetown practice.
They've been Duke fans since their son went to there, met his wife and now live in North Carolina, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brett D'Arezzo of East Providence studied the Richmond, Va., team practice like his life depended on it.
"I'm a big college basketball fan," he said from a seat in the nearly empty Dunkin' Donuts Center where the practice sessions were free and open to the public. "I used'" [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Motorists are running into a little bit of a problem downtown if they use GPS devices or get directions from Navteq or Google.
When asked, both Navteq and Google swiftly provided maps leading, for example, from the Jewelry District to Fountain Street near the Dunkin' Donuts Center, where' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It wasn't the big-time games of the NCAA tournament at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, but they were shooting hoops on Mathewson Street Wednesday afternoon, where Murphy's Deli and Bar has a tent on the closed-off street,
Right behind the tent, Murphy's had set up a basket where Jean-Claude [...]
By JOHN E. MULLIGAN, Journal Washington Bureau
and KATIE MULVANEY, Journal staff writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to seat Rhode Island Superior court Judge O. [...]
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Join founding members of the Uncaucus, friends, fellow voters, and comrades [...]
The Internal Revenue Service will soon offer more Saturday service ahead of the April 15 tax-filing deadline.
The agency will open its walk-in center at 380 Westminster St., Providence, on March 27 and April 10 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
IRS walk-in sites typically operate only weekdays, but the [...]
Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer
NCAA fans Leticia Romero, right, and Sonya Duarte, both of Woonsocket, check out the venue, aka the Dunkin' Donuts Center, for the tourney games being held in Providence Thursday and Friday. Next stop for the duo: A' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Board of Licenses Wednesday afternoon refused to shut down Level II, a downtown dance club, saying that the city had failed to prove that the establishment was a "disorderly house,'' and should have its license permanently revoked.
Board Chairman Andrew J. Annaldo announced the long-awaited decision and" [...]
The late R.I. Sen. Claiborne Pell, an Irishman -- at least once a year.
WASHINGTON -- The colors of the feast day livened the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday morning as members arrived to cast votes, wearing every variety of green tie, green scarf and [...]
Governor Donald Carcieri trumpeted the importance of wind energy yesterday as the vice chairman of a bi-partisan group of 29 governors pushing for greater federal support for wind.
The event added to a nice green sheen the governor has cultivated. But close watchers know it's the energy independence wind promises that most excites. [...]
Maya Allison, curator of recently-shuttered gallery 5 Traverse, is teaming up with photographers Frank Mullin and Magaly Ponce for a silent auction and exhibition to benefit victims of the earthquakes and tsunami that have recently affected Chile, where rural areas were deeply devastated and where winter [...]
Rhode Island politics is, in the end, an amateur affair. We've got a part-time legislature, after all - a not insignificant factor in our political malfunction. But there's an interesting little effort afoot to inject a little professionalism into Rhody campaigns: the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants is offering [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. _ The state Department of Health is investigating an Emergency MedicalTechnician who allegedly worked for the Barrington fire department for more than a year without a state license.
Thomas McGovney resigned from the fire department last week after meeting with Barrington Fire Chief Gerald Bessette, according to Town Manager [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the owner of an Elmwood Avenue salon to one day in prison and six months' home confinement for her role in a scheme to defraud mortgage companies.
"I want you to think as you're sitting here today what 30 years of your" [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The body of a young man pulled from the Woonasquatucket River Tuesday afternoon has been preliminarily identified as Gregory Hart, a 23-year-old man from Dedham, Mass.
Hart's death is under investigation.
Hart's wallet, his license, and his iPhone were [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - - Two Pawtucket police officers were treated for injuries at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island Tuesday after they got into a struggle with men in a stolen car and were struck by the car as the men got away, according to the Pawtucket police.
Officers Maria Cruz [...]
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