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FarSounder moves to In-Sight building in Warwick

WARWICK – FarSounder Inc. today announced it has moved to a 4,200-square-foot facility at 43 Jefferson Blvd., at the In-Sight Office Building. The new...

Comments sought on ‘Providence Tomorrow’ plan

PROVIDENCE – An interim Comprehensive Plan, the next step in the “Providence Tomorrow” initiative to determine the future of the city’s neighborhoods, is available...

Sales of new U.S. homes drop in January

New-home sales fell 16.6 percent in January to an annual rate that is the lowest since February 2003, according to a report today by...

U.S. durable goods orders fall 7.8 percent

WASHINGTON – New orders for manufactured durable goods decreased $17.1 billion or 7.8 percent in January to $203.9 billion, after rising 2.8 percent in...
NURSES at Rhode Island Hospital monitor a patient's condition via computer, where they also can track prescription data. /

R.I. honored as No. 2 in e-prescribing

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri today accepted a 2007 Safe-Rx Award on behalf of Rhode Island, which the contest ranked second nationwide in...
Prof. Chi-Wang Shu /

Brown math prof wins national honors

PHILADELPHIA – Brown University’s Chi-Wang Shu, a professor in the division of applied mathematics, has been awarded the 2007 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science...

R.I. residents favor <br>gambling rights for Narragansetts

DARTMOUTH – Rhode Island residents say, 2 to 1, that Congress should grant the Narragansett Indian Tribe the right to conduct gaming on its...
'THIS WAS a critical victory for our state and our kids, and I congratulate Attorney General Patrick Lynch and his legal team for their outstanding work,' said U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who as attorney general initiated the first state lawsuit against paint makers. 
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Paint makers must pay for R.I. lead cleanup

PROVIDENCE – Today at noon, Superior Court Judge Michael A. Silverstein ruled that Sherwin-Williams Co. and other former makers of lead paint must pay...

IRS: Many R.I. taxpayers overlook phone refund

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is urging Ocean State taxpayers to see whether they qualify for this year’s special one-time telephone excise tax refund....
'BOUND AND HEADED for America,' a detail from a painting by M. Chambon that is held by the John Carter Brown Library, which through the end of May is hosting two of several slavery-related exhibits at Brown this spring.   /

Brown to raise $10M for urban schools

PROVIDENCE – Brown University will raise a $10 million endowment for Providence schoolchildren, as part of its response to last fall’s report by the...
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