Jamestown News

Tolls at the Claiborne Pell Bridge may be going up for motorists who don't own an E-ZPass transponder purchased in Rhode Island.

Keith Stockley with a 49-pounder taken aboard Played For It , just off the southern side of Jamestown, according to Will Barbeau of East Bay Anglers.

TED ALMON of HealthRight speaks at a rally for Health Insurance Commissioner Chris Koller.

Sue McNally's painting Hanging Rock Sunset is part of an exhibit of her work at the Newport Art Museum.

About 35 people gathered at the State House Tuesday afternoon enthusiastically applauded speakers who called on lawmakers not to eliminate the office of the state health insurance commissioner .

Two drivers are in serious condition Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital after a collision that closed the Claiborne Pell Bridge for about an hour around 10 p.m. Monday, the Rhode Island State Police say.

When the weather is favorable, Mike Laptew and Ed Hughes have been catching bass aboard their kayaks off Jamestown.

Cartons of Rhody Fresh milk in a cooler at McQuade's Marketplace in Jamestown. The Rhode Island Dairy Farms Cooperative, which sells locally produced milk under the Rhody Fresh brand, is adding four new local dairy farms to its membership, bringing the total to nine.

C. Tessie Piekut, 92, of Newport, RI and formerly of New Bedford, passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 28, 2009, at St.

For nearly half a century, the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has provided a window on the world's oceans.

East Bay residents alerted to increased risk for Lyme disease as higher numbers of infected deer ticks found locally Jim McGaw Molly Coogan , 11, checks 12-year-old Deveney Andrade's back for ticks after their school group completed a hike at the Norman Bird Sanctuary last week.

Defense lawyer, two-term Smithfield Councilman and former Jamestown police officer Stephen R. Archambault has become the first anounced candidate for attorney general in 2010.

The International Yacht Restoration School, of Newport, officially opened its newly restored 1831 Aquidneck Mill building in May.

For the 21st time last week, Michael Jackson, of Narragansett, stood tall in his blue uniform, put his bugle to his lips, and played the 24 mournful notes of taps.

Initially priced at $10, the electronic toll-collection transponders will cost $20.95 as of June 1. You best hurry if you want to buy your E-ZPass transponder at a discount.

The mighty Captain Blowhard, former Rhode Island governor Bruce Sundlun, was back in the news quite prominently with his stop sign-rolling, curb-jumping antics behind the wheel that led the Jamestown police to suggest that he come out with his driver's license and hands up, following similar assessments by the North Kingstown gendarmes and the URI ...

A man whose body washed ashore in Jamestown on Wednesday has been identified as Stephen J. Montalbano, the 23-year-old son of former Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano.

According to Rhode Island State Police, Stephen Montalbano, the 23-year-old son of former Rhode Island State Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano jumped off the Pell Bridge Tuesday night around 11pm.

A Newport lawyer who failed to advise a terminally ill client to disclaim an inheritance from her mother has been forced to pay the client's grown children $664,595 and could wind up having to pay hundreds of thousands more, according to a binding arbitration decision.

Jamestown police are asking the Division of Motor Vehicles to investigate whether former Gov.