Kingston News

In a state where the official drink is coffee-flavored milk, it should come as no surprise that despite the recession there's a niche in the java-based business world that is perking along nicely.

A South Kingstown firefighter who was critically injured Monday while working on a ladder truck at the Kingston Fire District has died, a fire department spokesman announced.

A pair of former Chrysler LLC dealerships has filed an appeal of a bankruptcy judge's order terminating their franchises and those of more than 700 others as part of Chrysler's restructuring plan.

Robert L. Carothers is completing an 18-year term as president at the University of Rhode Island.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day The police have not released the boy's name, nor have they said who was driving when the boy was struck near his house on Diane Drive in Kingston at about 5 p.m. Saturday.

A cultivar of the honeysuckle family grows along a native stone wall on the property of Carolyn and Richard Curtis in Narragansett, one of several gardens on the South County Garden Tour to benefit the Kingston Congregational Church.

At the University of Rhode Island, researchers are working to turn switchgrass into a renewable fuel.

Bernard LaFayette Jr., senior scholar-in-residence at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, will oversee the University of Rhode Island's Youth Nonviolence Leadership Academy training for certification in Kingian Nonviolence for youths from July 14-17 in Atrium 1 of Memorial Union, 50 Lower College Rd., Kingston.

Two students from URI and a third person accused of assault that occured on the school's South Kingston campus back in September.

Sunday morning after very wet Saturday evening camping, we happened upon the Station House on 138 not far from the Kingston Amtrak station.

Thousands of college graduates are heading into one of the toughest job markets in three decades.

Rhode Island is blessed with many beautiful gardens, but none is as explosively colorful as the Kinney Azalea Gardens on Kingstown Road near the University of Rhode Island's East Farm.

The role of the University of Rhode Island is to educate students for the future - "for careers that do not yet exist that are based on technology and knowledge not yet known," says David M. Dooley, a finalist for the university presidency.

Over the last few years, former Gov. Bruce Sundlun has been accused of speeding and aggressive driving.

If drinking and driving don't mix, then neither do drinking, driving and text-messaging. That in effect was what the police said on Monday after charging a man with rear-ending a police cruiser and injuring its operator.

He is only a candidate for the presidency of the University of Rhode Island, but Robert D. Newman, a dean at the University of Utah, spoke Thursday with convincing authority about the issues facing URI in challenging economic times.

Two opportunities to learn a foreign language, both through immersion, will be offered this summer at the University of Rhode Island.

A sharp-eyed pensioner from Providence noticed that the amount of federal income tax withheld from her pension-related annuity has declined.

An avid athlete herself Kathy Robbins is the brains behind the Crabman Sprint Triathlon.

Phillipe and Jorge have words of wisdom for Brown University's idiotic, uber-politically correct faculty members who voted to drop Columbus Day and substitute a "Fall Weekend" at the behest of student group called Native Americans at Brown.