Rhode Island News

Whether it wants to play or not, Rhode Island has millions of dollars at stake when it comes to Massachusetts's pending decision on slot parlors and casinos.

An inevitable collision between teacher unions and the state's new education requirements has landed in Superior Court, Providence.

There was something different about this year's legislative session, several Rhode Island Commodores said after attending an upbeat bill-signing ceremony with speeches by Gov.

Police are searching for a man who is accused of escaping a Rhode Island state prison after impersonating someone else, MyFoxBoston.com reported.

Former President Bill Clinton is urging Rhode Islanders to vote for Democrat Frank Caprio for governor.

Larry Frederick and his daughter, Adella, will visit the Rhode Island Blood Center today as part of their Life Across America 2010 campaign.

The Regional Board of Superintendents for the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative voted unanimously last Tuesday to lay off 48 more employees - mostly teacher assistants - as part of a extensive restructuring plan there.

That's because the only coherent GOP platform now a days is "I got mine, frak you". He's just following the reflexive group think.

In this July 21, 2010 photo, Robert Healey, candidate for Lt. Governor of Rhode Island, stands in front of the glass facade of a building on the campus of Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I. Healey is running for a third time to be Rhode Island's lieutenant governor on the promise that he would abolish the office if elected.

Authorities are searching for a man who escaped from a state prison in Rhode Island after allegedly impersonating another prisoner.

Rhode Island and Massachusetts are among 19 finalists in a second round of federal "Race to the Top" grants, giving the state another chance to qualify for a share of $3.4 billion to help fund reforms in its public schools.

Amid news of Tony Haywarda s replacement as CEO of BP and the ever-constant drone of the latest Gulf spill news continuing to occupy the airwaves as we approach August, perhaps wea re starting to find a silver lining behind the dark cloud of the BP disaster and the nationa s energy crisis at large.

FIRST TIME IN THE SEAT: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stands at the podium, as Congressman James Langevin becomes the first person in a wheelchair to preside over the House of Representatives.

Tests on mosquitoes in Rhode Island have yet to turn up any sign of West Nile Virus or eastern equine Encephalitis.

Gay Republican R.I. House candidate Erich Sturn used a report the National Organization for Marriage had endorsed him to cricitize his opponent, House Speaker Gordon Fox [D-Providence], for his failure to secure passage of a measure that would allow nuptials for same-sex couples in the Ocean State.

The General Assembly 's leaders, House Speaker Gordon Fox and Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, wouldn't listen to their constituents who called for an end to the master lever, that legacy of corrupt machine politics of a century ago.

Rhode Island and Massachusetts announced a landmark agreement on Monday that will govern an area of ocean waters where both states want to develop offshore wind power.

When Arthur J. Latham Jr. retired in the mid-1970s from his job as a supervisor at Providence Gas Co., he began collecting a pension - "a small pension that doesn't go far," he said.

Threats and rumors of teacher strikes in Rhode Island often start in July. Not this year.

To help local children go back to school with the gear that will help them learn, Citizens Bank is collecting new school supplies for its Gear for Grades Initiative.