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Vonage settles suit on patents

Vonage Holdings Corp., the second-largest Internet phone-service provider, resolved a patent dispute with Nortel Networks Corp. that threatened to shut down some of Vonage’s...

State freezes $14k refund for fired DMV worker

PROVIDENCE – The state has frozen the $14,000 pension-fund refund requested by Soraya Santiago, a former R.I. Division of Motor Vehicles employee who was...
THE ONGOING federal investigation known as Operation Dollar Bill has focused on corruption at the Rhode Island Statehouse. /

Operation Dollar Bill nets execs, pols in 2007

The ongoing federal corruption probe known as Operation Dollar Bill in 2007 netted a former Rhode Island House majority leader and cost the state’s...
PETER MARSHALL, Marshall Environmental president and CEO, talks with Toll Gate High School students Carmen Duouette, Joe Gardner, Rebecca Dillon and Stephen Bell while Junior Achievement Education Manager Karen Healey and Toll Gate High School teacher Gerry Baxter look on. /

Marshall Environmental helps tomorrow’s leaders

Marshall Environmental President and CEO Peter Marshall recently marked his fifth anniversary as a volunteer with Junior Achievement of Rhode Island by integrating his...

Fall River Chamber offers free business counseling

FALL RIVER – The Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. today announced it has received $50,000 from the Mass. Office of...

R.I. among Top 10 states for home inspections

CHICAGO – Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut all ranked among the Top 10 states for home-inspection laws in the American Society of Home Inspectors’...
THE CLEAN CARS standards barred by the EPA would require higher fuel efficiency and lower emissions than the federal energy law, Calif. officials say. That might encourage the use of hybrid and all-electric cars, like this Toyota Corolla conversion from Sun Run Cars. /

R.I. joins multistate appeal of EPA emissions ruling

SAN FRANCISCO – California has filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appealing the ruling last month that barred states from enforcing vehicle...

New Year’s resolutions

Have you resolved to do any of the following in 2009? • Make improvements to office space environment – 46.7% • Spend...

EAPD completes merger with U.K. firm

NEW YORK and LONDON – Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP has completed its merger with London-based Kendall Freeman, the firms said in a...

State freezes pension refund to former DMV worker

PROVIDENCE – The state has frozen the $14,000 pension-fund refund requested by Soraya Santiago, a former R.I. Division of Motor Vehicles employee who was...
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