URI returns to the NIT, will open with Northwestern at home
Interactive bracket: See the pairings and enter your picks
Kevin McNamara's region-by-region predictions: Midwest: Tough road, but Kansas should make it to Indy || East: West Virginia can climb this mountain || South: Duke, Villanova vulnerable even in weakest region || West: Kansas State dangerous as a two seed
Your Turn: Did the Selection Committee make the right decision with URI? || Projo's URI Bulletin Board
Sgt. James D. Dougherty died early Sunday after his car hydroplaned and hit a utility pole on Route 3.
PROVIDENCE -- Police Chief Dean M. Esserman walked in uniform on Hope Street on Friday morning, a week after three of his officers were arrested in a drug sting, and found the reception on the street far different from the shouts and criticism on the airwaves.
Video: Chief Esserman goes for a walk
Extra: Some Providence Police scandals and controversies over the last three decades
Considerable flooding is likely in Rhode Island into Monday because of a stalled northeaster along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, the National Weather Service said in an advisory Saturday. Damaging winds are also predicted in some areas.
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Boston Red Sox senior adviser Jeremy A. Kapstein is seriously thinking about running for lieutenant governor. Kapstein, 66, of Tiverton, is a Providence native whose late father was a state legislator.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On the front lines of the marijuana debate, they decide who should be allowed to use what is still an illegal drug in Rhode Island. Altogether, 355 R.I. doctors have signed state forms asking the Department of Health to issue marijuana-use cards to at least one of their patients. But 21 of those doctors account for more than a third of the 1,347 medical marijuana cards issued so far.
ATTLEBORO -- Just after Scott Comey added an in-law apartment to his home, the cost of heating oil spiked over $4 a gallon. Comey got angry. And anger fueled action. "Are you sick of having no control over your energy future?" Comey asked in a public service announcement on cable television.
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Providence Mayor Cicilline will chat live Tuesday at noon with projo.com readers
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Division I boys basketball championship: Hendricken racks up its state record-tying seventh straight crown || Photo gallery
Division II boys basketball championship: Chrabascz comes up big as Portsmouth beats Scituate || Photo gallery
Division III boys basketball championship: Central Falls outlasts Johnston in overtime classic || Photo gallery
Hints of Spring: Baby cams, flowers
She's Out of My League
St. Patrick's Day
NEWPORT, R.I. -- Police brass and ordinary folks are on a mission to protect the reputation of the city's traditional St. Patrick's Day Parade as a family event, not an opportunity to drink and get drunk in public.
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IRS launches new phone line for questions on Schedule M
Rhode Island goes public with top 100 tax deliquents
Extra: Search and sort R.I.'s list of the top 100 tax delinquents
Some R.I. tax checkoff donations go straight to general fund
Michelle Singletary: A house is a home, not an investment
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