Narragansett News

Marc DeSisto, a lawyer for the town, said noisy parties among student and seasonal renters have been an ongoing problem.

Cities and towns have grappled for decades with how to tamp down student partying in neighborhoods.

PROVIDENCEa 'University of Rhode Island students will ask a federal judge this week to reject as unconstitutional a Narragansett ordinance allowing police to put orange stickers on unruly homes.

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the conviction of a woman convicted in a drunken-driving crash that shattered a Narragansett man's leg, saying that the trial justice inappropriately questioned two witnesses and prejudiced the jury.

The developer that owns what historians believe is one of the most significant Native American archaeological sites on the East Coast says it has been trying for more than two years to get permission from the state to build houses.

Meredith Ashworth, his wife of 11 years, talked about his love and kindness as a husband and father, and how much he cared for children in town.

On the eve of a presidential gathering with tribes from around the country, the Obama administration has detailed its support for congressional action to reverse a Supreme Court ruling that denied the Narragansett Indians a special status for land they own in Charlestown.

A prominent Florida lawyer and political donor now at the center of a multimillion-dollar fraud investigation transferred ownership late in October of two Narragansett houses he owned - valued at $4.5 million - to a limited liability corporation, town records show.

Matthew Thomas has felt like an outsider all his life. So when he heard the president of the United States tell hundreds of Native American leaders Thursday, "I know what it's like to be on the outside looking in," the chief sachem of the Narragansett Indians was moved.

Arguments in the University of Rhode Island Student Senate's legal fight to outlaw the Town of Narragansett's controversial orange-sticker policy will unfold at the state's only law school later this month.

Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch is stepping in to fight Narragansett Electric's request to raise electricity distribution rates by nearly 30 percent.

"Death Force," a Rhode Island-produced post-apocalypse thriller, finally makes its debut this weekend, thanks to the persistence of writer/director Ricky Laprade and cowriter Corey Gomes.

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy said Thursday that he believes that a bill to reverse a U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking special land status for the Narragansett Indians could become law during this Congress.

Narragansett Tribal Councilman Randy Noka will not have to testify in a child-custody trial being heard in Family Court following an agreement reached by the tribe and the father's lawyer.

Prosecutors are fighting disbarred lawyer John M. Cicilline's bid to win early release from prison, arguing that the federal Bureau of Prisons alone has discretion to decide where and how an inmate is held.

A new computer program is making it easier and faster for police officers to give you a ticket.

Over at the big house on Broad Street Jon Lender highlights something I neglected to in our new stories about Jodi Rell's pollster of choice, UConn professor Ken Dautrich.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to outlaw indoor prostitution Wednesday night, paving the way for a final debate on the Senate floor Thursday.

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