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09/29/2003
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Two van loads of survivors of the Rhode Island nightclub fire descended on Allentown two nights ago to face Jack Russell, whose band Great White set off the indoor fireworks that started the blaze.
09/29/2003
Derrick Pontier, 36, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was driving in Whitehall, Pa., in a 2003 Dodge Stratus at about 12:35 p.m. when another driver traveling in the opposite direction crossed the center line.
09/28/2003
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- She found him 277 miles from Rhode Island, in a barroom between a bus terminal and a homeless shelter.
09/28/2003
The Providence Journal has identified another 15 survivors of The Station fire, raising to 427 the number of people who, according to legal documents, survivors and others, were in the nightclub when it burned on Feb. 20.
09/25/2003
She knew what it was like to have a person's health, a person's life, rely on her care.
09/24/2003
A grand jury in Chicago has indicted four people affiliated with a stampede at a crowded nightclub last winter that killed 21 people, an investigation that has been closely monitored by law-enforcement officials in Rhode Island.
09/24/2003
But during the presentation and in an interview afterward, Owens made clear that Rhode Island did not, in an instant, become the safest state when the General Assembly passed new fire codes in response to The Station nightclub fire.
09/24/2003
"It's not about Great White. It's something much, much bigger. This is the sole purpose of Great White right now. It makes each second on stage matter," lead singer Jack Russell said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press. "What's important is helping these people out."
09/22/2003
The soft-spoken burn nurse from Indiana was about to tell her audience, World Burn Congress convention-goers who had lost fingers and skin and friends, a hard truth about life after fire.
09/22/2003
The Providence Journal willingly corrects all errors. To report an error or suspected error, call 277-7303 and ask for the city editor.
09/21/2003
An investigation by The Providence Journal has identified 412 people who, according to legal documents, survivors and others, were in The Station nightclub when it caught fire on Feb. 20, killing 100 and injuring more than 200 others.
09/21/2003
Liz Anderson
09/18/2003
Diane Mattera told The Journal Tuesday that she took the crosses from the site of The Station nightclub fire, in which both Longley and Mattera's daughter, Tamara, died. Mattera left a note saying she didn't want her daughter's memorial shared with that of a "killer."
09/18/2003
Lawyers for the owners of The Station yesterday appeared before a three-judge appeals panel of the state Workers' Compensation Court to argue why the nightclub should not have to pay a $1.06-million penalty for lack of workers' compensation insurance.
09/18/2003
Yesterday, the city's Board of Licenses decided during an emergency hearing to shut down the Olneyville nightclub for 72 hours. That decision will hold at least until a hearing tomorrow afternoon, when the board will review whether the club's licenses should be revoked permanently.
09/17/2003
Diane Mattera, of Warwick, told radio and print reporters yesterday that she had taken two wooden crosses, photos of Longley's son, and a teddy bear left in his son's honor, from the site on Friday.
09/17/2003
WEST WARWICK -- Local police will not charge the mother of a Station nightclub fire victim for removing crosses left at the club's site for Great White guitarist Ty Longley, the police announced today.
09/17/2003
Residents and well-wishers can make donations to the Lisa Marie Scott Memorial Fund at any Citizens Bank branch office, her family said.
09/17/2003
The hurricane is expected to hit land between North Carolina and New Jersey tomorrow or early Friday, bringing strong winds and rain. For the Providence area, the National Weather Service in Taunton says there is a chance of showers tomorrow night, and there could be heavy rain on Friday.
09/16/2003
Those who visit it say the site of The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick is sacred ground.
09/16/2003
PROVIDENCE -- A woman who lost her daughter in The Station nightclub fire took responsibility today for pulling crosses dedicated to Great White guitarist Ty Longley from the site of the blaze.
09/15/2003
WEST WARWICK -- Two crosses dedicated to Great White guitarist Ty Longley, who died in The Station nightclub fire, have been removed from the site of the former club.
09/14/2003
CLEVELAND
09/14/2003
U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Lincoln Chafee released the figures Friday after the federal government gave final approval to the grant, which comes under a program financed by the U.S. Justice Department.
09/14/2003
On Oct. 6, 2001, Dr. Richard A. Gould found himself amid the herd of mourners, tourists and gawkers shuffling past the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center.
09/14/2003
On Oct. 6, 2001, Dr. Richard A. Gould found himself amid the herd of mourners, tourists and gawkers shuffling past the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center.
09/12/2003
The federal government is releasing $450,000 to help state and local law enforcement agencies pay for expenses from the Station Nightclub fire.
09/11/2003
To the sound of bagpipes, the constants of the annual World Burn Congress emerged in the warm evening. There were men and women who were almost without faces. There were hugs and hellos among scarred people who looked each other in the eye.
09/10/2003
Daniel Bucci, the CEO indicted yesterday, did not attend the hearing. Lincoln Park general manager Craig Sculos represented the gambling facility instead.
09/10/2003
STOW, Mass. -- Flanked by the fathers of two young men who died in The Station fire, Governor Romney urged Massachusetts lawmakers yesterday to act on a new report that calls for sprinklers in nightclubs and a ban on most indoor pyrotechnics.
09/09/2003
The eight-lawyer steering committee yesterday filed papers with Senior U.S. District Court Judge Ronald R. Lagueux explaining why they do not think the federal court has jurisdiction to hear the nightclub fire cases.
09/09/2003
STOW, Mass. -- Sprinklers should be installed and the use of pyrotechnics banned in bars and clubs with a capacity of as few as 50 people, a Massachusetts task force formed after the deadly Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island recommended today.
09/06/2003
The South Shore of Massachusetts is apparently too close to Rhode Island for a concert by the band Great White.
09/05/2003
The distance between West Warwick and Weymouth, Mass., spans 46 miles. The distance between heartache and recovery is measured only in time. And Bill King knows seven months is not a long time.
09/05/2003
The South Shore of Massachusetts is apparently too close to Rhode Island for a concert by the band Great White.
09/03/2003
PROVIDENCE -- Jeffrey Derderian, co-owner of The Station nightclub where a fire killed 100 people, has found a new job with a Rhode Island company owned by a friend, his lawyer said.
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