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Senate candidates meet in final debate
Photo shows Republican Gabriel Gomez, left, and Democrat U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, candidates for U.S. Senate in the June 25, 2013 special election, being held to fill the seat vacated when John Kerry was appointed as secretary of state. (AP ...
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Cape Wind gets $200M investment from Danish fund
BOSTON -- The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what its president says is a milestone for the proposed 130-turbine project.The $2.6 billion Cape Wind project aims to be the nation's first offshore wind farm. But Cape Wind, proposed in 2001, has been delayed by lengthy review and entrenched opponents and has been looking for ...
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Penalty-killer Paille steps up offense for Bruins
BOSTON (AP) - His teammates always knew Daniel Paille was more than a speedy penalty killer who specialized in defense for the Boston ...
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RI building electric car charging stations
BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island is building up to 50 electric vehicle charging stations for motorists around the state and also plans to purchase hybrid or electric-powered vehicles for the state fleet whenever possible, the governor announced ...
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Report warns of consequences to 38 Studios default
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Calls to pay what Rhode Island owes for its failed investment in Curt Schilling's 38 Studios are growing louder as a business-backed public policy group warned of dire consequences should the state ...
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Officials seek help to solve shootings
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - City officials are calling on residents to assist police as they investigate a recent rash of shootings across several neighborhoods - including the one that took the life of a young girl over the weekend. "We need the community's cooperation, but when we have victims that are shot and they want to solve it with street justice, it's difficult to do our ...
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Warwick beach reopened to swimming
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island health officials have reopened City Park Beach in Warwick to swimming after bacteria counts returned to acceptable ...
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News Summary Chrysler agrees to recall 2.7M Jeeps
CHRYSLER CAVES: Chrysler reversed course and agreed to recall 2.7 million Jeeps Tuesday. The company insists the vehicles are safe, and initially denied the government's request to recall them. But it says it realizes customers are ...
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Court upholds Bishop murder conviction
Four years ago, Bishop was convicted of the 2007 murder of Gabriel Medeiros. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The murder of Medeiros had taken place less than a year after Bishop had been paroled to home confinement after having served 33 years at the ACI and other prisons out of state for the 1973 murder of James Dunn in ...
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Providence councilor wants Birch oversight review
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Providence councilman wants a city review of how a vocational school could have violated the civil rights of the developmentally disabled for years by unnecessarily segregating them in a ‘‘sheltered workshop’’ where they were paid little or no wages for manual ...
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Personal banker sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $100000 from elderly man
A former personal banker has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay full restitution after stealing more than $100,000 from an elderly man and concealing her income to receive rent subsidies, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. Before her indictment in January, Eden Cato, 29, used her position as a personal banker at a Bank of America to issue herself a ...
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No contest plea to 2011 murder from Hopkinton man
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - A Hopkinton man has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in a deal reached with prosecutors on the first day of jury selection in his ...
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YMCA and Boston police plan hot dog cookouts to help stem wave of violence in city
In an attempt to connect with a Roxbury community already stung by a summer surge in violence, Boston police officers will join YMCA staff Friday for the first in a series of hot dog cookouts they hope will attract the neighborhood's young adults, the YMCA said today. The weekly cookout, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Friday at the Roxbury YMCA branch at 285 Martin Luther King Blvd., is part ...
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Two seriously injured after single-car crash on Interstate 395
Troopers shut down the left northbound lane of Interstate 395 in Webster after a single-car crash left two people seriously injured early this afternoon, State Police said. The car crashed at 12:20 p.m., State Police said. Local firefighters worked to free the two victims, who were trapped in the car, troopers said. As of 1:30 p.m., a collision reconstruction team was still on scene ...
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Former hit man John V. Martorano coolly describes a long parade of murders
Coolly and calmly, former hit man John V. Martorano today continued to lay out a grim parade of murders in horrific, cinematic detail in his testimony in the trial of notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in US District Court in Boston, ...
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Thunderstorms pound region with heavy rains lightning
Powerful and fast-moving thunderstorms are rumbling through Massachusetts, producing pea-sized hail and causing flash flooding concerns from Worcester to Boston and areas south. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for southern Middlesex County, Suffolk County, central Norfolk County, north central Plymouth County, and eastern Worecester County until 5:45 p.m. Roughly ...
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Hopkinton man pleads guilty to murder
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP/WPRI) -- A Hopkinton man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a plea deal reached with prosecutors on the first day of jury selection in his trial. Jared L. Tefft, 30, agreed on Tuesday to plead guilty to second-degree murder, arson and assault in the January 2011 killing of his 44-year-old housemate, Peter Newman ...
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RI DEM cracking down on drunk boaters
"We are dedicated to keeping boaters safe on our waters. Boating is a safe and enjoyable pastime when people stay alert and follow the rules," says Sergeant Steven Criscione of DEM's Division of Law Enforcement. "Throughout the weekend, our law enforcement officers will have a visible presence on the water looking for boaters who are operating a vessel under the ...
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Northeastern University student charged in second sexual assault near Huntington Avenue
A Northeastern University student accused of sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint in the Mission Hill neighborhood Saturday was charged today in a second assault that occurred less than an hour later, prosecutors said. Patrick Barry, 21, is set to be arraigned on assault with intent to rape charges in West Roxbury District Court today in connection to the second attack. Both assaults ...
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RI high court upholds murder conviction of parolee
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of a man who killed a Warwick man during a 2007 home invasion while he was out on parole after decades of incarceration on another murder ...
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Ex-hitman details more killings
BOSTON (AP) -- Former hitman John Martorano has described more killings as he testifies for a second day in the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger in Boston. On Tuesday, Martorano gave chilling details about murders he committed after they were ordered by Bulger and his partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi. He also described a 1975 killing he said Bulger and Flemmi ...
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Small fire on RIC athletic center roof
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP/WPRI) -- Workers accidentally started a fire Tuesday morning while installing a new roof at the Rhode Island College athletic center in ...
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Chafee reiterates call to pay 38 Studios bonds
BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) - Gov. Lincoln Chafee says a rating agency’s move to review Rhode Island’s credit rating shows there will be consequences if the state refuses to pay back bonds issued for a $75 million loan guarantee granted to the now-failed video game company of former Red Sox pitcher Curt ...
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Electric vehicle network launched in RI
BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island is building a network of electric vehicle charging stations and has announced plans to transition to alternative fuels in state ...
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Troubled fire district may lose truck
COVENTRY, R.I. (WPRI) - The financially-strapped Central Coventry Fire District can keep its ladder truck, for now. A hearing to return the fire truck for failure to make an annual payment was scheduled Tuesday before Superior Court Judge Brian Stern, who is overseeing the case of the troubled fire district. Court-appointed receiver Richard Land said all parties involved agreed to hold off on a ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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