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The Lifespan hospitals have barred children from visiting patients, along with a number of hospitals around the country that have adopted this restriction to prevent the spread of H1N1 swine flu.

Will Remillard has displayed his versatility on the diamond by playing second base, first base and catcher as a member of La Salle Institute's baseball team in 2008 and 2009.

The chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Hispanic Assembly and member of the Republican Central Committee says he has quit the GOP because he was embarrassed by South Carolina Rep.

Horry County's double-digit jobless rate ticked up in August, and unemployment is expected to be worse than usual as the Grand Strand heads into the offseason, experts said Friday.

A battle among some of the area's most prominent personal-injury lawyers is about to be played out before the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

" Forecasters this morning warned Rhode Island residents to keep an eye on the weather outlook as a potential hurricane picks up steam in the Atlantic Ocean.

" Rhode Island has laid off a larger share of its state and local government employees than any other state over the past year, according to a report released yesterday by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.

A group of 50 professors from across the country and around the world has penned a letter to Rhode Island lawmakers, imploring them not to ban indoor prostitution.

You might be excused in thinking that David Quattromani was under the influence of LSD when he painted his 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A lime green with black hood and trim and the motor bright orange.

"Interesting fact about recessions ... they end." "Self worth is greater than net worth." "This will end long before those who caused it are paroled." Those are a few of the messages drivers in Rhode Island and across the country are seeing as part of a billboard campaign dubbed "Recession 101" and funded by an anonymous East Coast donor who was ...

AT A TIME of nose-diving state and local tax revenues, it is no surprise that new streams of income would be sought by those governments by going after Internet commerce.

Death and taxes. Two things none of us can avoid. But some online retailers are trying to avoid collecting sales tax in states that have enacted or are about to enact laws requiring that taxes be collected.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has stepped into an Internet tax battle which has been brewing between online retailers Amazon.com , Overstock.com , and a number of states which have been mulling Internet taxes.

If you're a blogger in North Carolina, Rhode Island, or Hawaii, then you can cross the Amazon Associates affiliate advertising program off of your list of possible ways to earn money through your blog.

Amazon has severed ties with affiliates in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and North Carolina over the thorny issue of collecting sales tax from online sales.

Unemployment rose in nearly every state in the nation in May , with many reaching record unemployment levels not seen since 1976.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Friday overturned rulings by the Family Court that had allowed a divorced woman and her two children to remain in Rhode Island for almost seven years despite an order from a North Carolina judge that they return to that state, where the children's father lived.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Preventive Medicine Article Date: 19 Jun 2009 The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease held a Capitol Hill briefing to discuss comprehensive state health care reform efforts, why some succeeded and others failed, and why focusing on reducing the burden of chronic disease ...

A new law could save homeowners money when a hurricane off the Atlantic coast churns up weather strong enough to damage homes in Rhode Island but never reaches the state.

Rhode Island, West Virginia and Ohio showed the biggest increases in unemployment in April as the worst job slump in the post-World War II era rippled through the economy.