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LINCOLN, R.I. -- A struggling slot parlor in Lincoln plans to start offering around-the-clock gambling beginning next week.

Rick Springfield Concert Review Rick Springfield at Twin Rivers - Lincoln, RI. Friday, October 16, 2009: I have to admit I am not a fan of Rick Springfield.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 7:33 pm US/Eastern LINCOLN, R.I. A Massachusetts man has been shot in the face while scuffling with a Rhode Island State trooper during a sting operation in a state park.

Melissa Gabriele knows funerals are expensive, and she was worried about how a friend she has known since junior high would pay for her daughter's funeral after the girl died over the weekend.

Health officials confirmed Tuesday that the 12-year-old Lincoln girl who died over the weekend did have swine flu, and revealed that a middle-aged woman died Monday of a suspected case.

A Lincoln Middle School student who died over the weekend at Hasbro Children's Hospital had suffered from flu-like symptoms, the state health director said Monday afternoon.

He has helped knock out stomach distress on those Prilosec TV commercials, and he has been anointed one of the sport's rising stars on the pages of boxing's hallowed monthly bible, Ring magazine.

The driver of a Chevy Impala whom the police say drove toward an officer who stopped him Thursday night, then fled in the wrong direction on Mineral Spring Avenue, apparently causing a multi-vehicle crash, remains at large.

Twin River, the Lincoln, R.I., racetrack casino that filed for bankruptcy in June, has reached an agreement with the Rhode Island Greyhound Owners Association to permanently end dog racing at the track.

A motorcyclist who was injured yesterday in an accident at the entrance of Saquatucket Harbor on Route 28 has died.

Community action agencies throughout Rhode Island are offering no-cost energy audits and free energy-conservation services such as home insulation, window and door replacement, weather stripping and caulking for low-income homeowners and renters.

Once an avowed opponent of casino gambling, Governor Carcieri now says he would not oppose a 2010 ballot question to turn the bankrupt Twin River track and slot parlor into a full-scale casino.

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation said Wednesday it will remove a lane from Route 122 in Cumberland and Lincoln in hopes of lowering speeds and improving pedestrian safety.

A matinee boxing event is a rare occasion. But on Saturday October 3, 2009 Jimmy Burchfield's Classic Entertainment & Sports Inc.

A proposal to increase one of Lincoln's fire district budgets comes as the town administrator supports creating a townwide district and explores the regionalization of fire services in Lincoln and Cumberland.

Undefeated Worcester middleweight Edwin 'La Bomba' Rodriguez, who was a man without a fight just over a week ago, suddenly is preparing for the toughest challenge of his career tomorrow afternoon in Lincoln, R.I. Rodriguez , the two-time national amateur champion who is featured in the November issue of Ring magazine now hitting newsstands, will ...

It's the last day of TASER training for the Lincoln police and the chief is waiting to take a hit from the stun gun at a gym in the training center at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility .

By JOSEPH FITZGERALD CUMBERLAND - Joined by Mayor Daniel McKee, members of the American Postal Workers Union Local 0387 will be walking an informational picket line Friday to protest the possible closing of the Valley Falls Post Office on Broad Street.

" U.S. Olympian Demetrius "The Cape Verdean Assassin" Andrade and former University of Rhode Island football player, Vladine Biosse, will be featured in separate bouts in a rare matinee pro boxing show, "Saturday Afternoon Special," Oct.

Sen. Louis P. DiPalma and Sen. John J. Tassoni Jr. have been named to a special Senate commission that will study municipal pensions and report its findings to the Senate by the conclusion of the 2010 legislative session.