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Gov. Don Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression. Complete Story...
Delroy James scored 21 points and had eight rebounds to lead Rhode Island to a 92-75 victory over Holy Cross on Sunday.
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.
John Griffin rushed for 154 yards and two touchdowns to lead Northeastern to a 33-27 victory over Rhode Island in the season finale for both teams.
The unemployment rate in Rhode Island has fallen for the first time in nearly three years, dropping slightly to 12.9 percent in October.
Keith Cothran scored 16 points, leading four Rhode Island players in double-figure scoring as the Rams ran past Brown to win their season opener 78-57 on Wednesday night.
A lawyer for University of Rhode Island students has asked a judge to strike down a law allowing police in a beach town to place stickers on homes that host loud parties.
Sue Stenhouse spends her days figuring out how Rhode Island officials should calmly deal with disaster. But when a rat scurried through her office, her natural response was to jump on a chair, snap it with rubber bands and threaten to spritz it with Obsession.
Chris Treister threw five touchdown passes and ran for another to lead Maine past Rhode Island 41-17 on Saturday.
Gov. Don Carcieri (kuh-CHEHR'-ee), a gay marriage opponent, has opened the door slightly to the limited recognition of same-sex relationships in Rhode Island.
Thomas Tobin, the Roman Catholic bishop of Providence, has made a career out of putting politicians in his crosshairs, but his latest battle over abortion threatens to spiritually exile Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a son of the nation's most famous Roman Catholic family.
A Rhode Island mother is asking for the person who stole her 4-year-old son's wheelchair to return it, no questions asked.
Economic woes in Rhode Island could drive the state's budget deficit to nearly $200 million, a gap equivalent to about 6 percent of expected state income.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy says recent comments by Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop questioning the congressman's faith because of his stance on abortion and health care reform were "very disconcerting."
League officials in Rhode Island are investigating a fight between members of two girls' high school soccer teams who threw punches, pulled hair and sparked a brawl in the bleachers.
Chad Kackert rushed for 166 yards and two touchdowns as New Hampshire defeated Rhode Island 55-42 on Saturday.
A hospital did not do enough to care for the brother of James Woods when he went to the emergency room complaining of a sore throat and vomiting in 2006, a lawyer for the actor told jurors Monday at the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit.
Unemployed Rhode Islanders can now collect jobless benefits for up to 99 weeks.
State lawmakers are debating plans ranging from auto racing to consolidating municipal services to steer Rhode Island through a bleak financial crisis.
A struggling slot parlor in Lincoln plans to start offering around-the-clock gambling beginning next week.
The unemployment rate in Rhode Island will continue climbing and peak at 13.8 percent next year even as layoffs taper off, an economist told state budget officials Wednesday.
A former dive shop owner convicted of killing his wife on a Caribbean scuba outing in 1999 was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for what prosecutors called a near-perfect crime motivated by his desire to pursue another woman.
Rhode Island's Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint Tuesday that accused Attorney General Patrick Lynch of improperly accepting a $428 plane ticket to a New Orleans conference.
Lawsuits against two meat companies claim a Massachusetts girl and a Rhode Island boy were sickened by ground beef contaminated by E. coli bacteria.
Rhode Island's largest hospital was fined $150,000 and ordered to take the extraordinary step of installing video cameras in all its operating rooms after it had its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, state health officials said Monday.
R.I. to vote on plantation as part of namePROVIDENCE - Rhode Island residents will vote next year whether to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name because of its association with slavery, state lawmakers decided yesterday.
Perhaps my favorite story of government failure of all time is the recent, proud (lol) announcement by the Obama Administration that the Obama/Democrat 787 bullion dollar "stimulus" bill has "created" 30,000 new jobs--6 (count 'em on your fingers) in Rhode Island alone, and less …
Memorandum on Medical Marijuana enforcementThis is the memorandum given to United States attorneys concerning the changes concerning medical marijuana enforcement.
The economic news last week was actually bad, but the mainstream media and Wall Street insisted on spinning the news as "good" news.
Murder trial begins in American's scuba deathA prosecutor opens the trial of a Rhode Island man by accusing him of killing his wife while scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands to pursue a romance with another woman.
State colleges hope to avoid midyear surchargesPROVIDENCE — Higher education officials say they plan to avoid imposing midyear surcharges or tuition increases on students to make up for recent state cuts to Rhode Island's three public colleges, and instead will save money by leaving open scores of positions and trimming s …
Kennedy warns health-care debate could turn violentU.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy fears that supercharged passions fueling the national health-care debate may lead to violence.
RI Police Solicit Donations from Asian Massage ParlorsAfter years of raids on the massage parlors in Rhode Island (where prostitution is legal), It was discovered the police have been soliciting donations from the massage parlors they were trying to close down.
How Many More Double-Digit Insurance Premium Hikes Can America Take Before We Get Reform?excerpt: ""I can't think of a state less equipped to deal with major health insurance rate hikes than Michigan, currently mired with - this will not be a typo - 15.6% unemployment. But that's exactly what they're getting.
Rhode Island to shutdown for 12 daysIn a bid to save $67.8 million in its fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget, Rhode Island will shut down government services for 12 nonconsecutive days between September and June 2010.
No free coffee for same-sex marriage opponents: Tim Hortons pulls support after Internet furorOn second thought, Tim Hortons will not be providing free coffee to a National Organization for Marriage celebration in Rhode Island this weekend.
16 year old girls legal to strip in clubs in Rhode Island --Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.comSixteen and stripping 4:41 In Rhode Island, there is a loophole in the law that makes it legal for 16-year-old girls to dance in strip clubs
Teen Strippers: Too Young to Drive, But Old Enough to StripElizabeth Roberts' 17-year-old daughter was put through the bureaucratic wringer to get a summer job in her home state of Rhode Island this year.
Minus GOP, Lincoln Chafee reenters R.I. political arena The Chafee political brand of moderate, Rockefeller-style Republicanism took a beating in 2006, when Lincoln Chafee, swept up in an anti-Republican wave, lost the Senate seat that had been in his family since 1976.
Is Rhode Island For Real????"Did policymakers in Rhode Island and the Division of Taxation not get the hint that passing a law in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and current Supreme Court jurisprudence would cause their own in-state advertisers to lose business? "
Rhode Island Slavery Legacy Prompting Name ChangeThe country's smallest state has the longest official name: "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
Taiwan Legalizes Prostitution; Will Rhode Island Ban It?The laws governing sex work are changing all over. In Taiwan, the government announced this week that they're going to begin decriminalizing prostitution.
Sex Workers testify at Senate Hearing on prostitution billAs the prostitution law was debated, the women at the center of the debate show up to testify.
Obama, Biden, 100+ federal officials boycott Mayor's convention, scared off by union picketersONE UNHAPPY band of firefighters and the Obama White House folds.
RI Senate overwhelmingly backs medical marijuana storesWhether the Republican Governor of Rhode Island likes it or not, medical marijuana patients in his state will likely soon be able to purchase their medicine from retail shops that specialize in cannabis and cannabis-infused medicinal products.
Human Sex Trafficking Happens in Rhode Island People might think that something like this doesn't happen but it is happening here right under our noses. Because of Rhode Island having more lenient laws on prostitution they think it is getting to be a problem. The article explains what is happening.
Providence mayor wants to tax college studentsThe mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city.
Visit the farm, see the animals, help the causeA large pig ambles over. A duck irately flips her bill under my pant leg. A llama with those great llama eyes nuzzles my shoulder through a fence. A turkey in full feather escorts me back to my car.
Pets sacrificed when wolf is at the door Some pet lovers have been forced to make the cruelest cut to their dwindling budgets. Pet owners are being forced to put their pets up for adoption due the economy.
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