Joseph DaSilva Jr.

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.


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.

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.

BARRINGTON, R.I. -- Six Barrington High School students have been suspended after getting caught drinking in their hotel room while attending a national leadership conference in Baltimore.

Rachin McCoy Katysha Lopez

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The injuries that ultimately killed six-week-old Naiomi McCoy earlier this year could not have been caused by a simple fall, a state medical examiner testified Friday morning.


Bank of America Skating Center, Providence RI

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.


Journal photo / Bob Thayer
Wayne Jankura of the Providence Parks Department scoops leaves off the watery surface of the Bank of America skating center, which he says is usually solid ice by now. The rink is due to open Saturday.

Testimony: Fiancee saw no doctors examining Woods

WARWICK, R.I. -- The fiancee of the late Michael Woods testified Friday that she had no recollection of any Kent Hospital doctors examining Woods during the first hour of his arriving at the hospital emergency room the day he died.

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.

Scituate repeat-offender driver due in court

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, 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.


Rhode Islanders: Find the date for the H1N1 swine flu clinic at your school (last updated 10/30/2009):

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