PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Ciciline said Wednesday morning that he has asked Col. Dean Esserman to table his proposed directive on random drug testing of police officers, and instead confer with officers to produce a policy.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Two students at Central Falls High School Wednesday spoke out in support of the dramatic reforms being pushed at the city's only high school, including firing the entire faculty.
WARWICK, R.I. --Some of Rhode Island's largest users of electricity have come out for the first time in opposition to a proposed power-purchase agreement between National Grid and the developer of an eight-turbine wind farm in waters off Block Island.
Mixed views on Block Island over proposed wind farm
Video: Some think wind farm is right for Block Island: 'They're actually kind of graceful'
LNG project economic boon, asserts CEO
Video: Gordon Shearer, president of Hess Corporation, appears before the Senate Task Force on LNG
Mystic Aquarium released its first seal of the winter season. An adult male harp seal was rescued in Maine on January 15 and transferred to aquarium's Seal Rescue Clinic the next day. It was severely dehydrated and needed antibiotics.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After taking a bus cross town, Joshua Acevedo, 12, settles into his typical afterschool routine at Smith Hill library. He is seated at a long wooden table in the library's main room, PlayStation 2 in hand.
WARWICK, R.I. -- Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday morning in the trial of James Cook after the defense rested without presenting any witnesses or evidence. Judge Edward C. Clifton reminded the jurors that it is up to the state to present evidence that Cook committed the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, and that he has no obligation to present any evidence, witnesses or to testify himself.
What's worse than hitting a police car? Driving into a row of just-fixed Rhode Island State Police vehicles and causing a chain reaction that totals two cruisers
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