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Unetixs opens facility in Quonset

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Unetixs Vascular, a firm specializing in instruments for diagnosing vascular disease, has opened a 30,000-square-foot headquarters in Quonset Business Park. The building,...
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Business productivity growth slows in 3Q

WASHINGTON – The productivity of U.S. business and manufacturing workers increased in the third quarter, although at a slower rate than in the previous...

ADP: Private payrolls plunge in October

ROSELAND, N.J. – Payrolls at U.S. companies shrank by 157,000 jobs last month, after losing an upwardly-revised 26,000 jobs in September, ADP Employment Services...
CRANSTON MAYOR-ELECT Allan W. Fung, center, a former city councilman, is a son of immigrants and restaurateurs Kwong Wen, left, and Tan Ping. /

R.I. voters overwhelmingly OK bonds,<br> re-elect Kennedy, Langevin and Reed

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island yesterday returned to Congress all three legislators whose seats were at issue this year, re-electing U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and...

Capital Properties 3Q profit rises 43.5%

EAST PROVIDENCE – Capital Properties Inc. (Amex: CPI) has posted a third-quarter profit of $478,000, a 43.54-percent increase from the year-ago $333,000 (READ MORE),...
NATIONWIDE, the average price of self-serve unleaded today was $2.419 per gallon, compared with statewide averages of $2.359 in Rhode Island and $2.459 in Massachusetts, AAA found. Prices fell for all grades of fuel, including diesel. Above, a fuel pump at the South Jersey Marina in Cape May, N.J.  /

AAA: R.I. gas prices at 21-month low

PROVIDENCE – “You have to go all the way back to February of 2007 to find a time when gas prices were this low...
GILBANE BUILDING CO. Project Manager Jim Kennedy, left, discusses ongoing work on the Intermodal Station in Warwick. Listening during the Oct. 28 briefing are Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, center, and Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian. /

Carcieri urges support for train-station funding

During a construction “update” for the train station being built in Warwick, R.I. Airport Corporation CEO Kevin A. Dillon last week stressed the potential...

Textron&rsquo;s Bell to fire 500 as contract nixed

PROVIDENCE – Textron Inc.’s Bell Helicopter unit said it will let go 500 employees, or 4 percent of its work force, after the U.S....
CONSUMER PURCHASES of durable goods such as cars and major appliances fell 2.9% last month, while purchases of non-durable goods fell 0.8%, the BEA said. Above, Todd Malone of Berkeley, Calif., looks at kitchen ranges this spring in the local General Appliance & Kitchen store.  /

Personal spending falls sharply in September

WASHINGTON – The nation’s savings rate rose last month as personal spending by U.S. consumers last month posted its sharpest decline since 2004, outweighing...

Buyout costs widen A.H. Belo’s 3Q loss

DALLAS – A.H. Belo Corp. (NYSE: AHC) saw itsthird-quarter loss widen to $17.26 million, a 275-percent increase from the $6.28 million loss posted a...
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