PROVIDENCE -- The union representing the city's police has come out against Mayor David N. Cicilline's plan to conduct random drug testing of police personnel, saying that if the mayor attempts to carry out the plan, he should be prosecuted "to the fullest extent" for violating state law.
Cicilline calls for random drug testing in Police Department
Officers can already be tested for drugs if 'just cause' is shown
Mayor exonerates his aide in drug sting
Video: Providence Mayor and Police Chief speak about arrests
Your Turn: What's your take on Mayor Cicilline's 3-point plan to rebuild the Providence Police Department?
Mystic Aquarium volunteers and staff members assisted in the release of an adult male harp seal into the ocean off Blue Shutters Beach in Charlestown Tuesday. The seal was rescued in Maine January 15 and transferred to aquarium's Seal Rescue Clinic the next day, where it was treated for dehydration and an elevated white blood cell count.
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
PROVIDENCE -- 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.
Providence’s Central Library surviving, growing
Wyatt Detention Facility deficit revealed
Lawmakers considering revision to Rhode Island tax system
CENTRAL FALLS -- A group of current and former Central Falls High School students held a candlelight vigil Tuesday evening in honor of the 93 teachers, support staff and administrators who have been fired, effective at the end of the year.
WARWICK -- James Cook has no intention of testifying in his own defense, he told the court at the end of the day Tuesday. The state rested its case on Tuesday after producing 13 witnesses, and dozens of pieces of evidence. The defense will present its case Wednesday.
Shooting for "Body of Evidence," the latest TV pilot to be produced in Rhode Island, may begin this week. "It could be Friday," said Steven Feinberg, executive director of the R.I. Film & TV Office.
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