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NEW YORK -- Children are constantly getting new stuff. On top of the new toys, clothes and art supplies that seem to come with each holiday -- even minor ones -- come birthday toys, clothes and art supplies.

It's trash day for residents in the Rumford section of East Providence, where recycling has been encouraged for years.

Q: We had to do an amendment on our taxes on March 28, and we were wondering if this would hold up our rebate check.

“Every single day, these guys put their lives on the line for the citizens of this community, and now their lives have been placed in jeopardy.”

East Providence Police and other law enforcement officials are still searching for clues as to why a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a side foyer at the Fire Station #3 at 30 North Broadway in ... via The Pawtucket Times

A prisons department recruit has died during routine physical fitness tests at the Donald Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls. via WPRI-TV East Providence

“Our dream is to put real glass in each hole, but that's like $1,300 apiece”

The bathroom area, below, needed a lot of work when Wendy Edwards and Jerry Mischak bought the firehouse. via Providence Journal

“I'm concerned about it but at the same time I'm optimistic because I've gone on three interviews in New York City and I've got a job prospect in Providence at Fidelity Investments”

Graduation is just around the corner and job prospects are bleak for college seniors. via WJAR-TV

“Until then, they think, 'How does a global issue affect my life?' But when it's concrete and right in front of you, such as the price of gas, it makes the abstract realistic.”

Join the party. Honor Mother Nature. Earth Day approaches. "This is the planet's birthday," says Jeff Hall, senior director of advancement at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. via Providence Journal

“It just seems illogical to me that a quote-unquote 'permanent free bed,' which by its very name suggests that it is to last forever, can somehow not last forever”

When Louisa Lippitt died in 1912, the wealthy widow left $4,000 to Rhode Island Hospital on the condition the money be used to provide a permanent free bed for needy patients, to be selected by a favored ... via WJAR-TV

“Citizens Bank is pleased to name Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island as the newest Champion in Action in the work force development category”

Citizens Bank and NBC10 have named Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island as the 2008 second-quarter Champion in Action in the work force development category. via Providence Business News

A former Rhode Island Hospital security guard and three former RadioShack workers have been charged in a scheme to steal the identity of hospital patients. via WJAR-TV

“It's got to be like jail for them”

CRANSTON Whenever Eddie has to relocate, he goes to pieces. Eddie is 70 years old and suffers from schizophrenia and mental retardation. via Providence Journal

“I plan to work with the governor and the board over the next year to follow through on the many regents' initiatives currently under way and to ensure that we manage a smooth transition to new leadership.”

Rhode Island's commissioner of elementary and secondary education said today he is leaving the position next June 2009, after 17 years at that post. via Providence Business News

A Brazilian judge issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a U.S. immigration officer accused of soliciting an 11-year-old boy for sex in Rio de Janeiro. via WJAR-TV

“I will concede that point, that the high end is 35,000.”

The sweeping executive order Governor Carcieri issued last month reignited a charged debate over illegal immigration. via Providence Journal

A U.S. Marine from Rhode Island has been charged with stealing the identity of another Marine. via WPRI-TV East Providence

“We believe that seniority is a standard that should be considered in combination with other standards”

An education group and a local senator are trying to repeal a Rhode Island law that uses seniority as the primary criteria for teacher layoffs. via WJAR-TV

“He doesn't know anything about me.”

Memo to John Robitaille, Governor Carcieri's new director of communications: I wish you well working in a high-pressure situation for someone who often lacks interest in communicating. via Providence Journal

“I've sunk every penny I have into it”

The Providence Journal / John Freidah, above, and Andrew Dickerman, below Evan Myers, above, comforts his dog, Simon, yesterday after a two-alarm blaze displaced them from their house at 65 Atlantic Ave, in ... via Providence Journal