Joseph DaSilva Jr. delivered his wife to the airport in time for her 8 a.m. flight Monday. "I waited a while to make sure she was OK. What if I didn't wait?" His SUV was the third vehicle to hit Karl T. Pernsley, who jumped into traffic from a Route 95 North overpass Monday.
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island has one of the highest proportions of pedestrian fatalities in the nation, according to a new study, along with one of the highest proportions of fatalities among elderly persons.
For the first time in nearly three years, Rhode Island's unemployment rate dropped, to 12.9 percent in October, offering a faint but reassuring sign that the state's economy may be on the road to improvement.
R.I. jobless numbers come from 2 sources
R.I. jobless rate still 3rd worst in nation, worst in region
BARRINGTON -- Six Barrington High School students have been suspended after being found with alcohol in their hotel room while attending a national leadership conference in Baltimore.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- So you thought the weather of 2009 was a bit on the insane side, with a spring that seemed to last until fall and Noachian levels of rainfall? Not really.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Carcieri administration has mounted a legal campaign to keep new Superior Court Judge Brian Stern, a former head of state purchasing and chief of staff to the governor, from having to answer questions, under oath, in a lawsuit filed by the Shire Corp., a major bridge contractor.
PROVIDENCE -- Until recently, scientists at Brown University working on a map of the Mars terrain had a long wait ahead of them each time they downloaded new satellite data.
WARWICK -- A Scituate driver who was arrested this week on a 19th charge of driving on a suspended license, and who was ordered held without bail because he was considered to have violated the terms of bail imposed last month for his 18th alleged offense, is due in District Court on Monday.
PROVIDENCE -- With painters and a carpenter working on the exterior of her three-family house on Brighton Street near Broadway, Susan Dupre has a lot of money going out, and not much money coming in.
PROVIDENCE -- Even by its own hard-luck standards, this has not been a good year for Heritage Harbor, the much-delayed Rhode Island history museum planned for the former South Street Power Station in the city’s Jewelry District.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In a rare move, state Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist has revoked the teaching certificate of a Bristol Warren teacher who had a history of alcohol-related problems and drove drunk to school in September. The action ensures that the teacher can never again work in Rhode Island public schools.
Providence church removes pews to save food pantry
Video: Food pantry displaces pews in Providence congregation's chapel
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