Little Compton News

Stormy weather blew into Rhode Island twice yesterday, with cascading quarter-sized hail and flash-flooding, wind gusts that tore down trees and power lines and severe lightning strikes that critically injured ...

I meet Greg Lloyd , President of Traction Software at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

Yesterday the state Board of Election announced that District 94 incumbent Republican Joan B. Quick will retain her House seat, having defeated challenger Democrat Michael B. Forte Jr.

With $5 gasoline and some airlines charging an extra $15 for each bag you take on your trip, you might be thinking of staying closer to home this summer.

I just wanted to congratulate Gerald Morrissey, his staff, the cast, the crew and the orchestra of "Guys and Dolls" at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School, which opened with a ...

So you've got tons of "stuff" cluttering up your house, and wouldn't mind a few extra bucks in your pocket for gas and groceries? Two words, my friend: Yard sale.

Rhode Island's plan to generate 15 percent of its energy from wind power has until recently enjoyed a wide swath of public support.

When female lobsters laden with eggs shed their shell before the juvenile lobsters hatch, lobsterman Patrick Heaney says that something unnatural is the cause.

Eyewitness News correspondant Doug Grindle has an exclusive look into local soldiers serving right now in Eastern Afghanistan.

“It's about the special bond that parents share with their children, because I was so overwhelmed with the love I have for my daughter”

Sunday is Mother's Day, so I thought I'd ask moms about books they love, or loved, to read to their kids. via SouthCoastToday.com

“Somewhere near Little Compton, isn't it?”

Shame on you, Jerry Remy. You may be the president of Red Sox Nation, but you certainly don't know your geography. via SouthCoastToday.com

Little Compton's Stone House was named to the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. via Turnto10.com

It was hard to imagine anything less menacing than Hud Morgan in a bar fight , but a helpful tipster has supplied one: the Men's Vogue writer, dressed we presume as a gangster, at up-and-coming socialite Serena ... via Gawker

“I thought I understood everything”

When he was helping to run a rural credit union as a 22-year-old Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, recalls Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, he won gestures of thanks and assent after telling ... via Providence Journal

“Houses were built with the oven to the right of the fireplace after the turn of the [18th] century, and after many women suffered burns from having to reach into the back of the fireplace to retrieve bread.”

The master bedroom is in the addition to the main house. There are two bedrooms and a half-bath on the second floor of the main house. via The Providence Journal

“Music, politics, anything that strikes my fancy. It's my blog”

If it's true, as Jesse Jackson once said, that deliberation and debate is the best way you stir the soul of our democracy, then Eileen Spillane is doing more than her fair share of stirring. via Westport Shorelines

M. Teresa Paiva-Weed and Sen. June Gibbs co-sponsored legislation that would direct the Department of Human Services to seek additional federal funds through the food stamp employment and training program to ... via Westport Shorelines

Bruce Long introduced legislation that would require the director of the Department of Corrections to determine the legal status of inmates and notify the attorney general and the Immigration and Customs ... via Westport Shorelines

“In those years, polio was such a nightmare. It was so awful, people don't realize it”

It's considered one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. On March 26, 1953, Dr. via Turnto10.com

But no matter how many French and California wines you've drunk, the odds are good they haven't included lemberger or chancellor. via Boston Herald