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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
EAST PROVIDENCE — For months, those elected to oversee the city’s well-being have allowed rowdy debates over labor contracts, budget cuts, even tow lists to dominate City Council meetings. Personal attacks spew freely, triggering boos, wild applause and wisecracks from the audience. The vitriol is not confined to council quarters. Someone sent Joseph S. Larisa Jr. — the always-ready-to-talk...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By News staff PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Drivers heading south on Route 95 in Providence will face a new traffic pattern this weekend. Starting Friday night, the two-lane ramp for Exit 20 will be closed to make way for a new, temporary ramp about 1,000 feet south of its current location. The temporary ramp will be in place through next fall. Only one lane will be open to access Route 195, and officials...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By News staff PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for robbing one bank and attempting to rob another. Craig Shacklock was sentenced Friday to 92 months in federal prison. The 52-year-old Providence man pleaded guilty in August to robbing a teller at a Citizens Bank branch in Providence in January and attempting to rob a different bank in...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Thomas J. Morgan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City police have announced that a man was found mortally wounded on Aldrich Street early Friday. Police withheld the victim's name pending notification of next of kin. They gave his age as 26, and said he lived at 18 Burnside St. Officers were called to Broad and Aldrich Streets around 1:15 a.m. when someone reported a shooting. The victim was found with gunshot...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Linda Borg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. District Court Judge William Smith has ordered a 90-day stay while the Providence Teachers' Union and Superintendent Thomas Brady try to work out their differences over a state-ordered teacher assignment plan. Union President Steve Smith said that both parties will hire a mediator to help them reach an agreement over the new criterion-based hiring plan adopted...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Kate Bramson PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Emergency crews were called early Friday morning for the report of a shooting in the vicinity of Broad and Aldrich streets, according to the Fire Department. More details about the 1:17 a.m. incident in the Washington Park neighborhood are not yet available. Check back with projo.com for more information as it emerges.
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Kate Bramson PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two children are being taken to Hasbro Children's Hospital after getting hit by a car in the vicinity of Smith and Orms streets. They were struck around 7:57 a.m., according to the Providence Fire Department. More details are not yet available. Check back with projo.com for more information as it becomes available.
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Thomas J. Morgan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Superior Court jury has convicted Roger Morin, 49, of 300 Front St., Pawtucket, of child molestation in a case dating to 20 years ago, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said in a news release Friday. The jury cleared Morin of a second charge of child molestation. The jury delivered its verdict Wednesday to Judge Robert D. Krause. The victim alleged that she...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Thomas J. Morgan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed will be among the panelists Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation when the group discusses the Fort Hood shootings and the elections this week. Reed will be joined at 10:30 a.m. on WPRI-TV by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, chairman of the House Armed Services...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Linda Borg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island College will open a new Veterans Resource Center on its east campus that will serve as a clearinghouse of information for all student veterans and and their families. The opening will take place on Monday at 3 p.m. in Building 5. Navigating a college campus can be a daunting task, said Monica Darcy, coordinator of veterans programs at RIC: "It's the...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Maria Armental PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Interfaith leaders in Rhode Island have called a press conference Friday afternoon to speak against a possible backlash against area Muslims in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings in Texas. Several news agencies have reported that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist suspected of going on a rampage Thursday at the military base killing, 12...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By News staff PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect a sunny day with a high near 50 degrees Friday, although a north wind with gusts up to 29 mph. will make it feel cooler. The low tonight will drop to about 59 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The weekend looks pleasant. Saturday should be sunny with a high near 50 degrees and a west wind of 5 to 9 mph. The temperature should reach 61 degrees...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
PROVIDENCE — House Democrats convened at the State House for a closed-door discussion of an issue that was not even on their special-session agenda last week: the state’s financial crisis.When the doors opened more than two hours later, several lauded House leaders for giving each Democratic lawmaker two minutes to vent ideas and frustrations in a “very positive,” private setting....
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Maria Armental PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A youth was arrested Thursday evening after he allegedly assaulted a bus driver, according to Rhode Island Public Transit Authority officials and the Providence Police. The alleged assault happened around 7:15 p.m. Passengers on the Route 11/Broad Street bus were transferred to another bus.
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