Jun 30, 2008 | Providence Journal
Audience will be key to enforcing Truth in Music
The Truth in Music Advertising Act, a bill that seeks to ensure that musical groups using a famous name are connected to the people who contributed to that legend, passed the General Assembly last week as part ...
Tobacco ban wafts into Amsterdam pot shops
Jon Foster, owner of the Grey Area coffee shop in Amsterdam and a Rhode Island native, helps customers on Wednesday.
RI soldiers returning home after Iraq tour
A company in the Army National Guard is returning home to Rhode Island after a tour spent training police in Iraq.
Senate passes bill to limit eminent domain
State lawmakers have approved legislation to define, limit and restrict the use of eminent domain powers - by state agencies or municipal governments - for purely economic development purposes.
Two fined for underage drinking
Two people charged with underage possession of alcohol at a party on Aquidneck Court pleaded no contest Friday in District Court, Newport, while a third pleaded not guilty.
Superintendent quits over budget woes
NBC 10 News and turnto10.com have learned North Kingstown school superintendent Dr.
State reopens 2 beaches to swimmers
State officials have reopened two beaches that were shut down to swimmers earlier this week because of high bacteria counts in the water.
South County: Delay in posting mail count keeps races in doubt
The state Board of Elections said yesterday afternoon the mail ballots for local races had been counted, and that it intended to transmit the figures electronically to the various town halls.
Early, unofficial Providence Journal tallies, which were reported in yesterday's paper, listed Zaccaria as the apparent winner.
A Tearful Homecoming in North Kingstown for Returning National Guard Members
Twenty-five members of the Rhode Island Air National Guard are now home, safe with their families.
Rhode Island Democrats have long been known for contentious primaries and in-your-face fractiousness, but 2008 is shaping up as a year of unity as Democratic leaders and elected officials have move quickly to ...
Budget cuts threaten to quiet salutes at funerals
When the gunshots ring out in salute and a bugler plays Taps near the new grave of the veteran, "then the family knows their loved ones are at rest," says World War II veteran S. Michael Minutelli.
Funding cut forces R.I. Guard to scale back funeral salutes
The sound of a gun salute at funerals for Rhode Island veterans could soon be heard less frequently, due to a federal funding cut.
R.I. Guard lacks funds for funeral salutes
The sound of a gun salute at funerals for Rhode Island veterans could soon be heard less frequently, due to a federal funding cut.
NK solicitor dismisses Roth claim
Charges will not be filed against School Committee Vice Chairman Larry Ceresi based on a report filed last week by fellow committee member Doug Roth in which he alleged Ceresi threatened him.
Where residences run in the family
Plum Beach in North Kingstown is a rural waterfront neighborhood, with houses dotting hilly, winding roads between Route 1A and Narragansett Bay.
Troops return home from overseas
Eight members of the Rhode Island National Guard returned to Quonset Point Monday from overseas.
Bear's spring tour continues, live in N. Kingstown
More bear reports, but this time from North Kingstown. It seems the black bear that found itself wandering the streets of a Narragansett neighborhood this week decided to head north and west - if it's the same ...