Lincoln News

Greyhound racing may or may not be on its last legs at Twin River, the racetrack casino whose owners claimed in a June 23 bankruptcy filing that the dogs are "a significant drain" on the place's profitability.

For many investors, the instinct is to find ways to make money, not avoid losing it.

A year-long celebration of Abraham Lincoln culminated on his birthday earlier this year, but the historical figure remains a focus at Western Kentucky University.

Michael Tusoni didn't mince words when he fired a pair of queries at U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who held a community dinner at the Lusitania Club on Tuesday night.

A Central Falls councilwoman whom the police say was driving erratically on Great Road Friday night with a 10-year-old boy asleep in the back seat, has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving on a suspended license and with refusing to submit to a chemical test.

There's a fight brewing over how to get a Rhode Island gaming facility out of debt.

Windmoeller & Hoelscher VP Andrew Wheeler displays a bag made at NPE by the firma s Topas form, fill and seal bagging system, behind him.

With the Twin River slots-and-racing parlor, one of Rhode Island's top revenue producers, unable to pay its creditors and entering bankruptcy, Governor Donald L. Carcieri called yesterday for even more gambling.

"Children" traffic signs and a good number of bungalows, many with lush gardens, mark the streets surrounding Lippitt Memorial Park on the East Side of Providence.

The Rhode Island House Finance Committee budget unveiled last week slashed $1.5 million for two new charter schools in Central Falls and Cumberland, both of which would serve minority students.

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A local man is charged with drunken driving and attempting to elude the police after his involvement in two crashes that injured three people on busy roads in Cumberland and Lincoln Tuesday afternoon, according to the police.

The Providence VA Medical Center will hold a 60th-anniversary celebration on Thursday, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the main hospital building's 5th-floor auditorium which will include the 2009 VA Lincoln Bicentennial traveling exhibition, "Lincoln's Legacy at VA." Retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice and Lincoln scholar Frank J.

The number of cases of H1N1 influenza virus in Rhode Island has tripled in less than a week, reaching 59 cases by Thursday morning, as the World Health Organization announced that the virus' global outbreak was now the first influenza pandemic of the century.

The Rhode Island Carp Anglers Group fish-in will be held in Blackstone River State Park off Rte.

Chris Magill loves a good, competitive race. If there's top-level runners at the starting line, chances are you'll see the former Saint Raphael Academy standout right there in the mix.

Two local charter school initiatives were given the go-ahead by the state Department of Education on Thursday afternoon, paving the way for the schools to open in the fall of 2009 - assuming the needed funding is allocated.

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State education officials approved a new kind of charter school Friday, a mayoral academy that, for the first time, puts municipal leaders in charge of one these alternative public schools.

Around 19:30 on Saturday evening Cumberland Police arrived at Hopkins Terrace and Kelly Street and reported fire in a 1.5 story dwelling.