Bristol News

The Portsmouth School Committee gave preliminary approval Tuesday night to a strategic planning program for the school system.

Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri has signed legislation approved by the General Assembly to strengthen the so-called "social host" law and address a number of other issues regarding underage drinking and ...

Some of the 35 members of Palm Beach Synagogue at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

In the first few years of Heritage Days, the city's largest annual festival, games and food vendors were crammed into City Hall's parking lot.

A former Foster-Glocester superintendent was chosen over two previous East Providence school chiefs last night to be the city's interim School Department leader.

Donna Chabot, center, a nursing assistant at the veterans home in Bristol for 30 years, spends some retirement time at her sister's home in Swansea.

Bristol, R.I. - Bristol, R.I., bills itself as the most patriotic town in America.

Sometimes, it works. A state official sees a problem, an injustice, and makes some calls.

The 82nd annual Ancients & Horribles Parade in Glocester takes place tomorrow, July Fourth, in the village of Chepachet, where, for a day at least, irreverence reigns.

It's the mother of all parades, celebration, pride, patriotism all rolled up into one long party along the streets of Bristol.

On July 4, 2002, 10 days after Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci Jr. was convicted of federal racketeering conspiracy, the then-mayor of Providence marched in the Bristol Fourth of July parade, just like he always did ...

There will be bands, floats and puppets, the trill of bagpipes, smart-stepping sailors, Sousa marches, wide-eyed tykes and military veterans in too-tight uniforms.

BRISTOL Twenty-one years after they were driven out by rowdy spectators, the Rhode Island Shriners are returning to the annual July Fourth parade - and they're bringing their clown outfits and wacky scooters ...

Prepare for the Fourth. This evening Bristol offers a few options in advance of its big parade.

The fisherman who was struck by lightning while fishing in Bristol earlier this week has died.

Strong thunderstorms passed through Southern New England on Tuesday. Lightning apparently struck a man in Bristol and set a house on fire in Seekonk.

A rainbow-colored canopy suspended above the back deck of the Bristol building downtown greeted a stream of partygoers attending what was billed as the first SouthCoast Pride celebration Sunday afternoon.

Here in Seattle, Elly DeWolfe Hale was far removed from her early American ancestors, a wealthy, illustrious family whose legacy still colors life in Bristol, R.I. Then came a letter that unmasked a shameful ...

Fishermen's Energy says that it will assemble a team of engineers with experience constructing facilities in Europe, such as this one in Lincolnshire, off the east coast of England, being serviced by the ...

Two Bristol men who had served as foster parents pleaded innocent yesterday in Superior Court to multiple felony child-molestation charges.