Providence Rhode Island News

Thomas M. Brady, 57, arrives here with an impressive resume: a 25-year career in the Army; interim superintendent of Philadelphia, the eighth-largest school district in the nation; and, before that, chief operating officer of the Washington, D.C., district.

The inaugural triathlon could certainly be deemed a smashing success. The athletes, many from Australia, South America, Europe and Canada, participated in the world-class event that for many became an all-day affair.

The state Department of Transportation has permanently closed Exit 20 on Route 95 north, which has for decades carried traffic from the south to Route 195 east, toward Cape Cod.

PROVIDENCE -- A Superior Court judge sentences "the best con man in the state" to serve 16 years in prison for having swindled 30 people, mostly by pretending he needed to borrow money to fix a broken-down lobster truck.

District Court Judge Elaine Bucci denied bail yesterday for Nicholas Gianquitti, the Cranston man accused of shooting his neighbor James A. Pagano last month in a dispute that began with a child's stray tennis ball.

Flutterby, the newest exhibit at the zoo, will host more than 20 species of North American butterflies in a greenhouse maintained at a butterfly-preferred 80 degrees Fahrenheit with considerable humidity.

Gallery: The flit and flight of color.