U.S. jobless rate steady in August at 4.6%
WASHINGTON – The nation’s nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged last month, edging down 4,000 jobs in August after rising a revised 68,000 in...
Warwick receives $500K sewer-extension grant
WARWICK – The city Sewer Authority, which this week unveiled a new, user-friendly Web site, has received a $500,000 grant from the R.I. Clean...
R.I. gets $1.2M to aid former Brooks Eckerd staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an emergency grant to the R.I. Department of Labor and Training, to assist the roughly...
L.C. residents to buy historic Stone House Club
LITTLE COMPTON – Craig Pishotti and Zachary Miller, the founders of GooseWing Hotels & Resorts, today said they “are in the final stages of...
Duke Press adopts Tizra online publishing system
PROVIDENCE – Tizra Inc. this morning announced that its Agile PDF publication service will be used by Duke University Press “to repackage, deliver and...
ADP: U.S. employment slows for second month
ROSELAND, N.J. – Hiring at U.S. companies last month lagged expectations, as nonfarm private employers added 38,000 jobs, slowing from job-growth of 41,000 the...
Pending home sales plunge record 12.2% in July
WASHINGTON – The number of contracts signed for existing homes in July fell 12.2 percent from their June level, after rising 5.0 percent a...
ICSC: Back-to-school shopping boosts sales 0.2%
NEW YORK – Sales at U.S. stores open at least a year rose 0.2 percent last week, according to the International Council of Shopping...
Chapman Enstone brokerage now a Wm. Raveis affiliate
SHELTON, Conn., and NEWPORT – The former Chapman Enstone Estate Agents of Newport has become William Raveis Chapman Enstone, an affiliate of the...
AAA: R.I. gasoline prices fall 1¢ to $2.679
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island gasoline prices have fallen for the seventh straight week, to 19 cents below their month-ago and 18 cents below their...
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