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Monster Cable settles with mini-golf company

BRISBANE, Calif., and PROVIDENCE – Monster Entertainment LLC, parent of the Monster Mini-Golf franchise operation, has announced a settlement of its nearly two-year trademark...

Five Questions With: Jeff Seemann

On Jan. 26, the University of Rhode Island will open its new $58-million Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences. Although a budget shortfall will...

R.I. agrees to develop low-carbon fuel rules

BOSTON – Rhode Island and 10 other Northeast states have agreed to develop a regional low-carbon fuel standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from...
CONDOS IN the Carnegie Abbey Tower will sell for between $799,000 and $5.4 million. /

Carnegie Abbey a towering presence in Portsmouth

Headed south in the main shipping channel in Narragansett Bay, when your boat rounds the southwestern tip of Bristol, it’s difficult to miss the...

Price of emission permits up in latest RGGI auction

The Northeast states’ second auction of carbon-emission permits last month showed the unpredictability of the fledging market, with allowances fetching a higher price than...
PORTSMOUTH has been proactive on the renewable energy front, looking to build a municipal wind tower to complement Portsmouth Abbey’s. /

Search for renewable energy <br>intensified in 2008

Energy prices, particularly for oil and gasoline, were a constant source of heartburn for businesses and consumers in the first half of the year,...
CLAIBORNE D. PELL
1918-2009 /

Dignitaries flock to Newport for Pell funeral

NEWPORT – Former President William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton; Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.; at least 11 other U.S. senators and two members of...
TIME FOR REFLECTION? R.I. General Assembly leaders such as House Finance Chairman Steven M. Costantino, left, shown at Technical Materials Inc. in Lincoln, will have to wrestle with the difficult economy when the legislature convenes this week. /

‘Survival’ became watchword in ’08

For many Rhode Islanders, 2008 can be summed up in one word: survival. For much of the year the Ocean State was at or...
WARM HEARTS: Jeanne Cola, senior vice president of community relations for Citizens Bank, and Jim Ryczek, executive director for the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless. /

Citizens Bank donates $100K for homeless

The Citizens Bank Foundation granted the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless $100,000 to support the Shelter Heating Initiative. The program was designed in...

Stocks head higher on 1st trading day of 2009

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks headed higher on the first trading day of the New Year, after ending 2008 with near-record losses. At 1:20 p.m....
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