Roger Williams University News

A special election on Tuesday will determine who fills the vacant state House of Representatives District 10 seat, which represents three West Side neighborhoods.

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.

What do you want to be when you grow up? While some high school students can answer that question easily, many others head off to college or jobs without a clue as to what career path they really want to pursue.

Eight months after he first emerged as a possible 2010 political contender, Republican defense lawyer Erik B. Wallin put the state Board of Elections and the rest of Rhode Island on notice Wednesday - he is running for attorney general.

The 3 Aves restaurant in Vero Beach will reopen under a new name and different management, bringing in much-needed jobs and a new dining experience to the region, just in time for the holiday season.

The state's only law school plans to increase the amount of free legal services it provides to low-income Rhode Islanders and groups that advocate for the needy, after a well-known lawyer donated $250,000 to expand Roger Williams University's School of Law Pro Bono Collaborative.

Officials at Rhode Island's only law school say a $250,000 gift from a prominent attorney will be used to boost free legal services to low-income residents.

" The Southern New England School of Law and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have renewed efforts to merge, which would create the Bay State's first public law school, officials said Wednesday.

Philanthropist Brooke Astor shown in a 1998 photo. NYT / FRED R. CONRAD Philip C. Marshall, the grandson of the late Brooke Astor, a New York philanthropist who spent her early years in Newport, said Tuesday that now that his father has been convicted in the Brooke Astor will case, he expects the will to be contested by various charities.

Recently well known journalist Lisa Ling made a stop in Bristol, Rhode Island, just a couple of months after her sister was freed from custody.

Rhode Island was not exempt from the international wave of surprise that followed Friday's news that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize less than 10 months after taking office.

The tiny black and silver fish in a 50-gallon vat at Roger Williams University do not look like the aquaculture breakthrough they just may turn out to be.

The school recently added three new faculty members to its Upper School campus in Kingston.

Ashley Ham Pong's first client as an aspiring attorney is a Liberian national facing deportation for criminal convictions.

Police led away a man in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors Tuesday and plan to extract DNA samples in an attempt to link him to the killing of a Yale graduate student who died the week she was to be married.

Police investigating the slaying of a Yale graduate student zeroed in on a "person of interest" Tuesday after keeping tabs on an ever-tightening circle of people connected to the medical lab where her body was found stuffed behind a wall.

In an especially tough year for admissions, about half the colleges and universities in Rhode Island have failed to fill their freshman classes, a sign of the recession, say higher education officials.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved the governor's chief of staff, Brian P. Stern, for a Superior Court judgeship on Wednesday, despite questions about Stern's role in the administration's June decision to pay $370,000 to a no-bid Medicaid consultant - who never had a contract - and his acknowledgement that "mistakes were made." His nomination ...

The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners has appointed Dennis Meyers and Keith Norden to the board of directors of the Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance.

Many animals living on the Vineyard and in its coastal waters experienced abnormalities in their annual life cycles this summer, according to local scientists and field experts.