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Insurer, lawyers fined $1.25M in 9/11 coverage case

Zurich American Insurance Group and two law firms representing the insurer have been fined $1.25 million for hiding evidence and denying coverage in a...
URI OCEAN ENGINEERING Prof. Malcolm Spaulding, left, the director of the new undersea center, shows off his CoastMap software program along with colleague Eoin Howlett. /

Dual-use applications are focus of undersea center

This spring, the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center awarded the University of Rhode Island $150,000 to create a Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology....

Embracing the defense market

An increasing number of technology workers in Rhode Island spend their days creating new technologies for the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies on...
BUSINESS LEADERS protest some of legislators' budget choices at a State House rally last week. /

No money for ALCO, RI-WINs in ’08

Rhode Island may not become the first state with a border-to-border wireless broadband network after all. The R.I. Wireless Innovation Networks project is one of...
ROBBY TAYLOR of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank unloads a truckload of food donated by Ocean State Job Lot. The donation will help feed thousands of people across the state during the high-need summer months. /

Donation helps R.I. Food Bank<br> through high-need months

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank recently received a tractor-trailer load of donated food from North Kingstown-based Ocean State Job Lot, its largest product...
TRADERS WORK on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City today,  as U.S. stocks retreated after Bear Stearns Cos.' plan to bail out a money-losing hedge fund sparked fears that mortgage bond losses may be worse than was previously believed. /

Stocks plunge on fears of mortgage-bond losses

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks plunged today, in the worst week since early March for both the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and Dow...

2 new board members join ISO New England

HOLYOKE, Mass. – Roberta S. Brown and Richard E. Kessel have been elected to the board of directors of ISO New England Inc., effective...
100 VOLUNTEERS using handheld electronic devices recorded the size, condition, species and location of the 24,999 trees that line the streets of Providence. /

Volunteers tally the street trees of Providence

PROVIDENCE – Mayor David N. Cicilline today announced the results of the Providence Tree Tally, an arboreal census of the city streets completed...
THE INDEX of U.S. Leading Indicators rose 0.3%, to its highest level since December. /

U.S. leading indicators rise 0.3% in May

NEW YORK – The index of U.S. Leading Economic Indicators rose 0.3 percent in May to 138 points (1996 = 100) after falling a...

Patrick creates Mass. Development Cabinet

BOSTON – Gov. Deval Patrick today signed an executive order officially establishing a Development Cabinet to help promote economic development and create jobs in...
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