PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri lashed out at state Senate leaders for suggesting his budget plans would cause local tax increases. "This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to mislead the public," the governor said.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The leaders of the largest state employees union are denouncing Governor Carcieri's deficit-elimination plan as the "wrong idea at the wrong time."
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Calling the magnitude of the local-aid cuts in Governor Carcieri's deficit-elimination plan an "extraordinary disappointment,'' Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday said they "cannot rule out" tax increases as a possible alternative.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lillian Chason, an aspiring actress and Barrington High School graduate who became gravely ill after contracting swine flu during her freshman year at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has died.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Without dissent, a key Senate panel took a big step Thursday toward reversing last winter's U.S. Supreme Court decision that blocked a special land status for the Narragansett Indians -- and many other tribes across the country.
Extra: Read the text of the bill, S 1703
Extra: Read the Supreme Court's 40-page ruling, Carcieri v. Salazar
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Out-of-work Rhode Islanders who phone the state's unemployment insurance call center wind up on hold for more than an hour on average before reaching the center's staff, state Department of Labor and Training officials acknowledged in a State House hearing Wednesday.
R.I. unemployment, economy top concerns in Brown poll
New investor takes over at The 903 complex; auction canceled
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The federal government is seeking more than $12 million from former nursing home owner Antonio L. Giordano and his associates, claiming they enriched themselves by diverting millions of dollars from nursing homes as they slipped into debt.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ronald J. Leddy, 48, pleaded no contest Thursday to murdering a Central Falls woman while she slept in her bedroom, then raping a housekeeper at the facility where he and his victim lived. Leddy was sentenced to 60 years in prison, with 20 years suspended and 20 years probation.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Attorney General's office says the FBI is investigating Providence police after an officer was caught on videotape beating a suspect.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With a predicted high in the low 20s, don't look for much warmth Thursday. Factor in a strong northwest wind, and the chill factor at midday made it feel like 9 degrees.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Eugene Briggs, man in his 20s, was shot to death in Elmwood Wednesday night, hours after a 16-year-old high school student succumbed to gunshot wounds from a shooting in the same neighborhood outside a birthday party three days ago.
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