Rhode Island News Archives

If you're doing some estate planning - for yourself or a loved one - be aware of a big change coming for Rhode Island's estate tax.

Rhode Island would close a loophole allowing prostitutes to ply their trade indoors under new legislation approved by state lawmakers.The bill approved Thursday would make prostitution a misdemeanor offense regardless of where it occurs.

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse met recently with members of Combined Joint Task Force 82 at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, including, from left, Eric Bynes, a Marine and a Providence native who grew up in Detroit; U.S. Army Capt.

The 12-year-old Bristol girl who died earlier this week did have the H1N1 flu virus, Gov.

Rhode Islanders may get a chance to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name over its ties to colonial slavery.

The key to northern Rhode Island's future prosperity rests with a successful commuter rail system, said state and local officials Monday.

If federal forecasts are correct, it will cost Rhode Islanders about as much to heat their homes this winter as it did last winter.

Several hundred participants gathered at Roger Williams Memorial Park in Providence on Sunday, Oct.

Lawmakers could soon close a loophole making Rhode Island the only state beside Nevada that permits indoor prostitution.

Health officials are investigating how a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong part of a patient's hand, the hospital's fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007.

Lawmakers started the year promising to fix Rhode Island's collapsing economy, which has driven unemployment to 13 percent, shuttered businesses, crushed the housing market and caused a budget deficit that grows worse daily.

A Rhode Island legislator has pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol.

The Moderate Party, the only ballot-qualified party in Rhode Island other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, has announced that it has formed town committees in 17 of Rhode Island's municipalities.

Republican business executive Rory Smith announced Wednesday that he would run for Rhode Island governor and called for spending and tax cuts to help revive a tanking economy that's pushed unemployment to 13 percent.

Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous parasitic disease transmitted by ticks and is common in the Northeast and the upper Midwest.

Activists in support of marriage for gays and lesbians rallied on the steps of the Rhode Island State House in Providence on Oct.

The state has given more than $87 million in tax breaks to businesses over the past two years but has not been able to determine whether the businesses have achieved the goals for which the breaks were intended.

Nearly 200 supporters of same-sex marriage rallied on the steps of the Rhode Island state house in Providence on Saturday, angry that Rhode Island is an actual 'island' in a sea of New England states that have marriage equality or civil union laws on the books.

Nearly all of the 1,700 state jobs that have been paid for by federal stimulus money come from five departments, state officials said Friday afternoon.

The Rhode Island Department of Health is seeking medical volunteers to help staff school vaccination clinics during the month of November.

A Massachusetts-based animal-protection organization is pushing to bring greyhound racing to a permanent end in Rhode Island and by extension, New England.

A new Web site designed to help track elderly people reported missing is coming to the Warwick Police Department.

The economy has left shopping center lineups in a shambles with vacancies evident in every sizable retail property in Rhode Island and elsewhere.

President Obama has nominated Rhode Island Superior Court Justice O. Rogeriee Thompson to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Governor Donald L. Carcieri and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts once again invite Rhode Island artists to submit work for the Scenes of Rhode Island exhibit and awards.

Watching the House of Representatives on late-night C-SPAN, you might have any number of reactions, including seppuku-inducing boredom.

" After weeks of back and forth, members of the state's largest public employees union have voted to approve a deal with the Carcieri administration that avoids worker layoffs or a government shutdown in exchange for lower pay, union officials said Tuesday.

" Rhode Island's hospitals could run out of beds at the peak of a swine flu outbreak if the virus infects one-third of the population, according to a report released Thursday.

Concerned about potential water shortages, Rhode Island lawmakers are on the verge of passing legislation that would force conservation by raising prices on people who use too much.

On September 30, 2009, at approximately 9:00 a.m., the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force , along with the Coventry Police Department, arrested Matthew Craig, age 23, of 50 Ames Street, Coventry, Rhode Island on the charges of Possession of Child Pornography and Transmission of Child Pornography and Kenneth ...

The first shipment of swine flu vaccine is expected to arrive in Rhode Island next week.

State revenue officials warned lawmakers Wednesday that Rhode Island revenues are continuing to deteriorate, putting the state on track to fall $100 million behind projections for the current fiscal year.