Kingston News

As darkness fell over Narragansett Bay, the Coast Guard called off the search Tuesday for Chester Kidd, the 47-year-old quahogger who apparently drowned Monday.

Police in Kingston have made an arrest in connection to a vandalism that occurred at a veterans memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Kingston.

URI Police Maj. Stephen Baker said Patrolman Paul Gentile and Lt. Richard Moniz interviewed the suspects after using video and electronic records to identify them.

Police records and privacy, paying for online news, and reporting on the financial crisis, are the topics of this year's Journalism Day.

The police have identified the man who died after a car crash Wednesday night on Knotty Oak Road at the intersection with Washington Street as 82-year-old Joseph Palin, of Scituate.

J S Mercer 1 , B R Vohr 2 , D A Erickson-Owens 1 , J F Padbury 2 and W Oh 2 1College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA 2Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Correspondence: Dr JS Mercer, College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island, 2 Heathman Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA.

Kingston, RI 02881 URI-Kingston Campus-Outdoor Track near the Ryan Center. There will be signs to follow and people around to help! cost: $0 + Free! Just come to walk, bring friends, and have a good time! The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is at the forefront of research, education and prevention initiatives designed to reduce loss of ...

Pink ginger from Wishing Stone Farm in Little Compton on its way to local chefs.

Nettik has led the West Kingston Elementary School through a dramatic transition that began in 2005, when the South Road School closed and children living in a low-income housing project were shifted to her building, doubling the proportion of disadvantaged enrollment to 17 percent.

Kenyon's Grist Mill Harvest Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24 and 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the mill, 21 Glen Rock Rd., West Kingston, 7-KENYON, kenyonsgristmill.com. The event will feature free admission, parking, mill tours and food samples, including kettle corn popcorn and jonnycakes as well as locally roasted coffee, ...

WANT TO DANCE? David M. Dooley, URI's new president, is eager to expand the state university's partnership with Brown University.

Nearly 200 passengers of a Boston-bound Amtrak train have reached their destination after a four-hour delay in Rhode Island caused by mechanical problems.

Ocean State Job Lot hopes to hire as many as 50 people and open a new store by Thanksgiving weekend after completing a $3.5 million purchase of the former Circuit City building this week.

Western Bridge's major new show Parenthesis , on the subjects of parents and children, opens tomorrow , and yesterday I got a sneak peek of it underway.

In an effort to help one of the most under studied groups of sufferers of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , researchers at University of Rhode Island and Lehigh University have kicked off the first-ever controlled pharmacological study for treatment of ADHD amongst college students.

Again and again, 71-year-old Marjorie Brasier walked on the treadmill using an instrumented prosthetic leg, and again and again she tripped or slipped.

We have many interesting items on hand for study by our group of expert appraisers.

The late Allan "Pickles" LePage will be among those honored on Sept. 27 at the annual South Kingstown firefighters memorial ceremony.

It was delivered a few decades ago on Biscuit City Road in Kingston, R.I. As an esteemed member of the Book of the Month Club, I was the happy recipient of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." After about page seven, I decided that French cooking was a little much for a Southern girl raised on grits and fatback.

THE CURRENT CONDITIONS INDEX fell back to 25 in July from 42 in June, but is still trending higher than it was a year ago.