Coventry News

" Rhode Island's economic outlook ranked 48th among states in a new study from the American Legislative Exchange Council, which said the state's ranking suffered because of what it characterized as high income and property taxes and an estate tax.

Weeks after legalizing the sale of marijuana to sick people, lawmakers have voted to explore how much Rhode Island might collect in revenue if it were to make all sales of marijuana legal and impose a "sin tax" of $35 per ounce.

Happy Hour: A conversaion with Jeannine Behm at Real Seafood Co. 7:55 p.m., Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Happy Hour: A conversation with Jeanniene Behm.

Severe thunderstorms rumbled into Southern New England beginning at daybreak on Wednesday and continuing at 11 a.m. for a second round, clustering together over the southernmost tip of Rhode Island with wave after wave of heavy rain and lightning strikes.

After listening to two hours of cross-examination of a state police trooper involved in the investigation into a Rhode Island Air National Guard recruiter accused of selling drugs from his office, District Court Judge Frank J. Cenerini has continued the bail hearing for Richard Flamand to Thursday afternoon.

Finding good Chinese food in Rhode Island has the potential to be the bane of your existence if you let it.

A North Smithfield man is being held at the Adult Correctional Insitutions without bail on multiple counts of child molestation.

The first class of Swain Scholars at Coastal Carolina University has been selected.

Governor Carcieri on Friday signed into law legislation that could pave the way for offshore wind farms in Rhode Island.

In what some state lawmakers described as one of their toughest votes of the day, the House voted to keep a high-profile tax break that benefits 2,267 Rhode Island taxpayers.

ON THE MARCH: St. Francis School graduates file into the church for Tuesday's commencement ceremonies.

Visitors always provoke curiosity from the resident alpacas at Shadow Pines Farm in Exeter; a plane in the style of an F-4 Blue Angel is being made to look bluer at Quonset Air Museum in North Kingstown; and Champlin's mouth-watering crabcakes in busy fishing port Point Judith.

A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges involving the theft of furniture from The Hartford insurance company.

The state Board of Pharmacy has taken disciplinary action against Sen. Leo R. Blais , R-Coventry, for a spate of violations uncovered in a routine state inspection of his pharmacy, Pawtuxet Valley Prescription & Surgical Center , in October 2007, including poor record keeping, a failure to segregate "outdated, unusable and mislabeled'' medications ...

A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges involving the theft of furniture from The Hartford insurance company.

Amid an outcry over the state's public art program - and the sometimes abstract art displays it produces - Rhode Island lawmakers have proposed amending the law, funneling less money to outsized installations and more to struggling community arts programs.

The Judicial Nominating Commission on Wednesday completed its marathon run of selecting finalists for state court vacancies, picking five candidates to fill a Superior Court seat vacated by the retirement of Judge Mark A. Pfeiffer.

Authorities say two men were involved in a scheme to win demolition work through illegal payments.

A Coventry contractor who was indicted in an FBI undercover kickback scheme has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge and is likely to go to federal prison.

With Rhode Island's industrial sector in its death throes and the state in desperate need of a new economic engine, political leaders are talking with new urgency about wind and solar and all things green.