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R.I. trash agency dumps top deputy
The deputy director of the state's embattled trash agency and four other employees have been fired.
Warren town planner leaving for a new job
Town Planner Michelle Maher has given notice that she will leave her position next month to take a job with the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.
A vote-buying link in immigration imbroglio?
Given Governor Carcieri's steady emphasis on illegal immigrants, it's interesting, isn't it, that it took a chance event to reveal the extent to which undocumented workers were helping to clean state offices? ...
R.I. Bar Foundation elects 22 new fellows
Twenty-two lawyers were elected as fellows of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Rhode Island Bar Association, the bar said today.
Johnston contractor admits to extorting from workers
An asbestos-removal contractor who did work for public agencies in Providence Cranston, North Providence and South Kingstown, yesterday pleaded guilty to extorting kickbacks from his employees.
An uncertain future: 31 workers expected to face immigration charges
On the Friday morning of June 6, a court clerk walked into the J. Joseph Garrahy Judicial Complex and noticed something suspicious.
The limits of public education
Cumberland Mayor Daniel J. McKee and those who support his plans for a new-fangled Charter School they say will revolutionize education may have hurdled a major obstacle last month, but the school is still far ...
State landfill announces free tours of facility
Do you ever wonder where your trash goes? Or those recycled bottles and cans? Now anyone can see what happens in a tour of the state Central Landfill, in Johnston, an eye opener that Rhode Island Monthly ...
Rumford split-level draws the outside in
Raymond E. Johnston and M. Hazel Johnston asked architect Richard C. Niebuhr to build them a house that included a living and cooking area, a space for the family to socialize and sleeping quarters.
Almost 400 years after Roger Williams established a new colony by a freshwater spring along what is now North Main Street, 51 people from 24 nations gathered in the same spot yesterday to become some of the ...
State's renewable energy effort goes into neutral
When it comes to advancing the cause of solar energy in Rhode Island, nothing is ever easy, or so it seems.
Savings, safety seen in numbers
Five towns are planning to combine police and fire dispatching at a central location to save money and handle emergency communications over a wider area, leaders said.
Mass. outpaces RI on renewables
The gov's office released this optimistic statement earlier this week: Funding Approved for SAMP Governor Donald L. Carcieri today announced that the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Fund Board of Trustees ...
9 R.I. communities seek property-tax waivers
NINE OF THE 39 cities and towns statewide are planning to raise property taxes by more than 5 percent, but 28 have filed requests for increases "at or below" the statutory maximum, according to R.I. Revenue ...
American Foam offers $6.3M in Station fire
American Foam Corp. has filed a tentative $6.3 million settlement with victims and survivors of the 2003 fire at The Station in West Warwick.
Man indicted for failing to register as sex offender
A federal grand jury indictment charges a man who was working for a carnival and concessions company in Rhode Island with failing to register as a sex offender here after he was convicted in Georgia 10 years ...
Downing: Thousands in R.I. have yet to file for the rebate they're due
Some people don't normally file a federal income-tax return because their income falls below a certain level.
Station Fire Update: American Foam to Pay $6.3 Million to Survivors and Victims' Families
A company that sold the flammable foam blamed for fueling a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle lawsuits from survivors and victims' relatives.
R.I. in tentative pact with state unions
Administration negotiators have reached tentative contract agreements with "almost all" the unions representing state employees, according to Gov.
MoneyLine's Neil Downing: Future of Social Security in the cards
You now have the option to have your monthly Social Security benefits loaded directly onto a special debit card.