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A prisons department recruit has died during routine physical fitness tests at the Donald Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls. via WPRI-TV East Providence

“Our dream is to put real glass in each hole, but that's like $1,300 apiece”

The bathroom area, below, needed a lot of work when Wendy Edwards and Jerry Mischak bought the firehouse. via Providence Journal

“The state is discussing with Ms. Fairweather what role, if any, she will have in continuing to provide legal services to the administration. No decisions have been made.”

Patty Allison Fairweather, who has been at the center of a string of controversies while serving as the top legal counsel at the state Department of Environmental Management, has left the state agency. via Providence Journal

“Citizens Bank is pleased to name Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island as the newest Champion in Action in the work force development category”

Citizens Bank and NBC10 have named Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island as the 2008 second-quarter Champion in Action in the work force development category. via Providence Business News

“It just seems illogical to me that a quote-unquote 'permanent free bed,' which by its very name suggests that it is to last forever, can somehow not last forever”

When Louisa Lippitt died in 1912, the wealthy widow left $4,000 to Rhode Island Hospital on the condition the money be used to provide a permanent free bed for needy patients, to be selected by a favored ... via WJAR-TV

The Planning Department is putting together a program that officials hope will help stem the wave of foreclosures sweeping the city as a result of the subprime lending debacle. via Providence Journal

“It's a novel concept in the family law area”

Gay couples had to struggle mightily to win the right to marry or form civil unions. via WPRI-TV East Providence

“It's got to be like jail for them”

CRANSTON Whenever Eddie has to relocate, he goes to pieces. Eddie is 70 years old and suffers from schizophrenia and mental retardation. via Providence Journal

“We do not want people in the immigrant community to be afraid to report a crime.”

The Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association this week endorsed one section of Governor Carcieri's controversial executive order addressing illegal immigration in Rhode Island, according to Warwick Police Chief ... via Providence Journal

“I plan to work with the governor and the board over the next year to follow through on the many regents' initiatives currently under way and to ensure that we manage a smooth transition to new leadership.”

Rhode Island's commissioner of elementary and secondary education said today he is leaving the position next June 2009, after 17 years at that post. via Providence Business News

A Brazilian judge has issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. immigration officer from Rhode Island who is accused of soliciting an 11-year-old boy for sex in Rio de Janeiro. via WLNE

“In particular, I did not mean to imply that the Governor's actions were spreading hatred. Instead, I was trying to explain that immigration is a very sensitive and polarizing issue.”

The director of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families apologized Tuesday, a day after saying the governor's crackdown on illegal immigration promotes racial profiling. via WJAR-TV

A U.S. Marine from Rhode Island has been charged with stealing the identity of another Marine. via WPRI-TV East Providence

“He tried to, you know, separate them... break up the fight... and he got shot.”

After a man is shot and killed on Douglas Avenue in Providence, his relatives say it happened while he was trying to break up a fight. via WPRI-TV East Providence

“We believe that seniority is a standard that should be considered in combination with other standards”

An education group and a local senator are trying to repeal a Rhode Island law that uses seniority as the primary criteria for teacher layoffs. via WJAR-TV

“I will be very focused on using as much of that land as possible to create jobs.”

The state and the city have struck a deal to give Providence a voice in the sale of the land uncovered when Route 195 is peeled away four years from now - a once-in-a-lifetime property sale that some envision ... via Providence Journal

“We have a major budget problem. We have an economy in recession. We need to find solutions to those problems, but the governor's executive order is not a solution.”

Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts and a host of community advocacy groups yesterday demanded Governor Carcieri rescind what Roberts called "a very shortsighted" executive order targeting illegal immigrants in Rhode ... via Providence Journal

“And we have friends and neighbors who are very happy at Peace Dale. We know it's not the end of the world if we don't get in.”

This spring marks the fourth in a row that Sara and Christopher Nerone will cross their fingers and apply to the Compass School, hoping that their daughter Sophie, 9, will finally be accepted to the free, ... via Providence Journal

“He doesn't know anything about me.”

Memo to John Robitaille, Governor Carcieri's new director of communications: I wish you well working in a high-pressure situation for someone who often lacks interest in communicating. via Providence Journal

After urging Rhode Island businesses to step up their recycling rates, the state's top environmental agency is finally getting on board itself. via WPRI-TV East Providence