Providence College News

The National Retail Federation has predicted a drop in gift-card sales this holiday season.

The turkey is ready -- all 16 of them. Coming up: fresh-brewed coffee and rolls right out of the oven.

While the finalized Clery 2009 Annual Campus Crime Report shows few glaring differences in crime this past year at Providence College from years previous, the change in number of disciplinary referrals was somewhat significant.

National editor for TIME Amy Sullivan visited Providence College to speak about her political coverage of a phenomenon of the "God Gap." Sullivan is an evangelical Christian, but maintains that it is "impossible to understand politics in the United States without understanding Catholic voters." She said that is because approximately 85 percent of ...

William J. Murray, 61, of Sundance Lane, died Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Both countries have their own interests, concerning South Caucasus. How does this "reboot" process affect the conflicts in the region, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular? Foreign experts express their opinions on the question above.

I'm thinking of nominating myself. Until one day last week, when I found myself watching some sort of dinosaur train show with a grandkid, I didn't even know there were such things as state fossils.

The mayor of a city with a huge budget gap, an aging population and a tax base heavy with tax-exempt property has proposed taxing students.

Providence College has jumped all over Bryant and leads, 50-18, after one half of the World Vision Invitational.

Experts believe 2009 gift card purchases will bounce back from last holiday season, when spending on the cards decreased to $24.9 billion from $26.3 billion in 2007, according to the National Retail Federation.

West Genesee alum Dan Graham and his wife, Rachel Graham both recently earned doctorates from the University of California.

The Army Space and Missile Defense/Army Forces Strategic Command based at Redstone Arsenal may soon welcome a new commanding general.

The Big East Conference headquarters have been downtown since its founding 30 years ago by a Providence College athletics director, but city officials are concerned whether the nation's largest college Division I sports conference will stay.

Second Lt. Adam Swartzbaugh has not seen the active service necessary to describe him a veteran, but the 24-year-old has already amassed a resume impressive enough to suggest future greatness.

A Massachusetts man with a violent past was shot in the face when he tussled with an undercover state police detective during a sting at Lincoln Woods State Park early Friday afternoon, the state police said.

A man was taken to a hospital after he was shot somewhere in Lincoln Woods State Park early Friday afternoon.

It's Saturday at Tom and Patricia Dart's house. It's quiet outside on this tree-lined street in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, but inside it's loud, chaotic and every bit a typical family, albeit one with five young children.

OK, so it's not the U.S. News and World Report on colleges, but the University of Connecticut just whupped Yale, Harvard and Princeton in the Fourth Annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card.

Cliff Montiero, president of the Providence chapter of the NAACP, summed it up best on Thursday afternoon: It's a shame that it took the state so long to name a building after "a man of color." A few minutes later, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch commended Montiero for his bold statement and said there was no building more fittingly named than ...

Small pumpkins line the stairs of a Pawtuxet Village home, the first of many signs that the family that lives inside takes Halloween seriously.