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Cox brings 50Mbps broadband to R.I.
WEST WARWICK – Cox Communications Inc. announced last week that it is now making its new Cox DOCSIS 3.0 “Ultimate Internet” broadband Internet package...
MBTA joins RIPTA on Google Maps
BOSTON – MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas announced last Thursday that the agency has partnered with Google Maps to add Massachusetts Bay Transportation...
Interest grows in operating marijuana dispensaries
One month after the General Assembly overrode a veto by Gov. Donald L. Carcieri of a bill allowing medical marijuana “compassion centers” to grow...
Local officials decry pro-LNG decision
FALL RIVER - A proposal for an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Fall River’s Mount Hope Bay was approved by the U.S....
Lifespan hospitals seek Facebook friends
PROVIDENCE – The hospital group Lifespan Corp. has made a move into the world of online social networking with new profiles on microblogging Web...
City post office to drop Sunday hours
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Postal Service has announced that the main post office in Providence will be closed on Sundays beginning Aug. 16.
Hours are...
Analysts see films boosting Hasbro sales
PAWTUCKET – The blockbuster success of the new “Transformers” movie could mean as much as $600 million in sales of Transformers toys this year...
Foresight adds Web portal, NIH contract
PROVIDENCE – Commercialization and technology transfer firm Foresight Science and Technology Inc. said last week it has secured another federal contract and launched a...
Marijuana meetings draw interest
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC), a nonprofit medical marijuana advocacy group, is scheduled to host a forum next Thursday for...
U.S. grants RIH cancer center $1.8M
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital will receive $1.84 million in federal funding to expand the facilities and training programs at the hospital’s Center for...
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