Smiley makes offer to school district to help close budget gap
PROVIDENCE – City Hall has offered to provide $1 million in additional funding to the Providence Public School District to help address its budget deficit...
U.S. inflation reaches lowest point since February 2021, though some price...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Inflation in the United States dropped last month to its lowest point since it first began surging more than three years...
Five Questions With: Agueda Del Borgo
Agueda Del Borgo is a broker and owner of Places & Spaces Realty LLC. A longtime Rhode Island real estate professional, Del Borgo was...
North Attleboro insurance broker sentenced to 18 months for wire fraud
PROVIDENCE – A North Attleboro insurance broker has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for fraudulently collecting $137,000 in sales commissions, U.S....
Third R.I. Manufacturing Day career event highlights the unconventional
PROVIDENCE – When Katy Westcott first launched her business, Katrinkles Inc., she didn't think of herself as a manufacturer.
The business, which makes tools for...
Brown University corporation rejects Israel divestment proposal
PROVIDENCE – Brown University will not divest from 10 companies that do business from Israel after reviewing a proposal from students requesting that the...
R.I. Commerce awarded $160K from SBA to support underserved communities
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. has been awarded nearly $160,000 from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Federal and State Technology Partnership Program to...
Class-action lawsuit claims Brown, other private schools, participated in price-fixing scheme
PROVIDENCE – Brown University and 39 other private colleges across the U.S. and the national education support nonprofit College Board have been accused in...
Man given 10-year prison sentence for role in online romance scam
PROVIDENCE – An Atlanta man was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in an online romance scam in...
Providence Community Electricity Program sets lower winter rates
PROVIDENCE – The winter supply rate for commercial customers in the Providence Community Electricity Program will be 15.8 cents per kilowatt hour, down from...
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