Lifespan net income rises 65.6% in FY 2007
PROVIDENCE – The Lifespan network posted a net gain of $102.22 million for fiscal 2007, an increase of 65.62 percent from the...
Citizens opens 25th Stop & Shop branch in R.I.
WARWICK – Citizens Bank recently opened its 25th in-store branch in Rhode Island at a Stop & Shop in Warwick, adding to what is...
Five Questions With: Jamie Moran
Jamie Moran is an employee-benefit specialist with Needham, Mass.-based Provider Insurance Group, an independent insurance agency with offices in Woonsocket and Belmont, Mass. Moran...
Supreme Court hearing tribal-land case
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in a closely-watched dispute over land purchased by the Narragansett Indian Tribe in 1991.
The...
No R.I., Mass. Circuit City stores<br> among those slated to close
RICHMOND, Va. – Ailing electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. (NYSE: CC) today announced plans to close 155 of its 712 U.S. stores, laying...
R.I. economy contracts 1.34% in 3Q
PHILADELPHIA – Rhode Island’s economy declined in the third quarter at one of the fastest rates nationwide, based on the latest data from the...
AAA: R.I. gas prices at 21-month low
PROVIDENCE – “You have to go all the way back to February of 2007 to find a time when gas prices were this low...
FM Global campaign honored by BtoB
CHICAGO – An advertising campaign for Johnston-based FM Global commercial and industrial property insurance was honored by BtoB magazine in its new “Best...
Shop owners using special events to lure customers
It was past the usual closing time at Butterfield, a high-end furniture store in downtown Providence, but people were flocking in anyway.
“We never knew...
Still rocking to its own beat at 30
Remember 1978? It was the proverbial “best of times, worst of times” in Rhode Island, when the Blizzard of ’78 crippled the state, when...