Hopkinton News

The House of Representatives voted to raise the state's gasoline tax by 2 cents per gallon, after beating back attempts by lawmakers to divert big chunks of the new money to the cities and towns for things like pothole repairs, instead of giving it to the much-maligned Rhode Island PublicTransit Authority.

The group ran to safety, and a neighbor chased the animal across the street. HOPKINTON, R.I. _ Rhode Island police say a 6-year-old boy walking to the bus stop with his mother was bitten by a fisher cat, a close relative of the weasel.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Projo.com photo by Pamela Reinsel Cotter A juvenile fisher cat hides in a North Kingstown tree Sunday, part of a litter of 3 with its mother that roamed the Quidnessett neighborhood.

A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday when his bike hit a deer at Laurel and Church streets.

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.

A SURE SIGN of spring in South County - eggs for sale by the side of the road. Longer days affect the productivity of hens.

Police Thursday arrested a Hopkinton, R.I., man on charges that he was selling firearms out of the trunk of his car.

A former deputy fire chief from Rhode Island has been sentenced to 20 years in jail on second-degree child molestation charges.

The state Labor Relations Board, which Mayor Joseph S. Larisa Jr. alleges has a pro-union bias, is scheduled to hear the city's dispute with the teachers today.

Only eight city and town councils, and one mayor, have lined up so far to support some - but not all - of the budget articles proposed by Governor Carcieri to restructure rules and mandates that cost ...

The state Department of Transportation said yesterday that it is closing three bridges, one in Cumberland and a pair in Hopkinton, because of deterioration discovered in inspections.

Nobody likes tax increases, and everybody hated the huge tax increase being proposed in Hopkinton on March 6, 1995.

Some people want to be able to ride their horses on acres of land. Other people want a house by the water.

Tony Soares is mad because, over the summer, National Grid workers "destroyed" his newly planted flower box so that they could install a new gas meter in front of his three-unit apartment building in the city's ...

In early fall, the Turning Pointe Therapeutic Riding facility in Ashaway, R.I., nearly closed.

A section of a turf farm irrigation system on Switch Road. Wood River Junction in Richmond is actually surrounded by two rivers, the Wood River and the Pawcatuck, and is located near a pond with two names, ...

Rich Longolucco's public service career has been distinguished, rising to the rank of lieutenant in the Westerly Police Department before retiring in 2004.

A fire at an elderly and disabled housing complex in Hopkinton Monday sent 31 people, most of them firefighters, to area hospitals.Officials say a plastic radio left in an oven was to blame.

Army Major Brian M. Mescall always knew that he would be a soldier, dressing the part every Halloween.

More than 30 people, mostly emergency personnel, were taken to area hospitals late Monday afternoon for evaluation after a portable radio left in an oven apparently caught fire and released toxic fumes into an ...