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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island
Snow plowing may take longer, classrooms could become more crowded and fewer police officers may patrol Rhode Island if cities and towns are forced to absorb $125 million in funding cuts proposed by Gov. Don Carcieri to balance a tanking state budget.
Three Providence police officers who were shot and wounded during a drug raid have been released from the hospital.
Gov. Don Carcieri proposed closing Rhode Island's ballooning budget deficit Monday by cutting roughly $125 million in state funding for cities, towns and schools, putting local leaders under tremendous pressure to cut costs or raise property taxes.
Rhode Island soon starts auctioning off unclaimed property including jewelry and bone carvings on the Internet auction site eBay Inc.
Long before trendy nightclubs used velvet ropes to keep out unwanted guests, Caroline Astor was maintaining exclusive lists of socialites deemed worthy of an invite into her Beechwood mansion in Newport.
Kyle Smyth scored a season-high 21 points and Iona took advantage of 31 percent shooting by Providence as the Gaels beat the Friars 82-73 on Saturday night.
A man who acts as a mascot for the New England Patriots is among 14 people who have been arrested for prostitution-related crimes in Rhode Island since a new law went into effect that banned indoor prostitution.
A man who acts as a mascot for the New England Patriots is among 14 people who have been arrested for prostitution-related crimes in Rhode Island since a new law went into effect that banned indoor prostitution.
The nominee who would run Rhode Island's economic development agency in a state with nearly 13 percent unemployment said Friday she wants to connect the unemployed with jobs but needs at least three months to assemble a plan for reviving the struggling economy.
A Rhode Island police officer was arrested Thursday, accused of brutally beating a teenage boy and then encouraging fellow officers to lie about it to the FBI.
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