Johnston News

The Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering a $1,000 reward in a dog abandonment case.

It's difficult to track how many people are arrested for driving on suspended or otherwise inactive licenses -- and even more difficult to learn how many multiple offenders are out there because the state Department of Motor Vehicles' computer database is old and not easily searchable for such data.

The former driver for former Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams returned to court on Monday to seek payments from her estranged husband to help pay expenses for their 6-year-old daughter.

" A Rhode Island company will receive up to $15 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to construct and operate a landfill gas-to-electricity power plant at the state's central landfill in Johnston.

The townwide School Building Committee has unanimously approved a proposal for installing a solar-heating system at the Brown Avenue School, if the town can get federal money to pay the project's $350,000 estimated cost.

John Jalowy wonders if the local building official has made a bad call, but contesting the inspector's zoning decision will cost $2,000. The fee for that type of appeal ranges from $125 to $300 in five nearby communities.

Rhode Island health officials will begin school-based H1N1 flu clinics on Monday.

Four Providence men have been arrested on charges they broke into several houses in Johnston, or tried to, the police said.

Hipolito E. Fontes says his life never has been as hectic as it is now. In fact, he sat at his kitchen table inside his family's third-floor apartment at 93 Sacred Heart Ave.

Frank J. Williams, the former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, approved the hiring of the teenage cousin of his 6-year-old godchild to work at the court as an administrative assistant for three summers before the girl went to college.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Sept. 30 to celebrate the completion of Briarcliffe Gardens Assisted Living, in Johnston, R.I. built by Norwell, Mass.-based Acella Construction.

Milford is an old but diverse town near Franklin, not far from the Rhode Island border, and it's where developer David Nunes and Warner Gaming want to build a resort casino.

Frank J. Williams, the former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, was barred on Tuesday from visiting or having any other contact with his 6-year-old goddaughter who is part of a messy divorce case.

Robert Ehlich of Johnston, left, listens to Robert C. Smith, above, a police detective from San Diego who moolights as a consultant, who trained Ehlich and about 80 other bouncers from Providence bars and nightclubs in how to handle their jobs with sophistication and fewer fisticuffs.

Frank J. Williams, former chief judge of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, acknowledged yesterday that he hired the grandmother of his 6-year-old godchild as a cleaning lady at the courthouse two years ago.

For many months, Mayor Charles A. Lombardi talked vaguely about his plans for a "reorganization" of town personnel, inserting the subject into discussions about crushing budget deficits, union contract language and whopping bills for employee overtime.

Town officials and a hotel developer are negotiating a public financing arrangement for the redevelopment of the blighted Stuart's Plaza property on Hartford Avenue.

When some 1,100 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island workers start moving into their new 13-story office building next weekend, most will enjoy sweeping views of downtown shared only by those who can afford to rent or own pricey nearby condominiums.

The regionalization of public-safety and public-works services in seven metropolitan Providence communities is the goal of enabling legislation that Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline plans to submit to the General Assembly .

Frank J. DosReis, the estranged husband of the former driver for ex-Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, testified Tuesday that he felt "initimidated,'' by Williams and was fearful of asking him to butt out of his family's life.