President Barack Obama has offered additional security assistance to Ukraine in its standoff with Russia. Speaking Thursday at the White House following talks with visiting President Petro Poroshenko at his side, Obama announced an additional $53 million in fresh aid to Ukraine – $46 million to bolster Ukraine’s security and $7 million in humanitarian aid. […]readmore
France says its fighter jets have successfully carried out the country’s first airstrikes against Islamic State insurgents inside Iraq. The office of French President Francois Hollande said in a statement Friday that its Rafale jets launched a strike against a militant logistics depot, adding that it was destroyed completely. France did not give the exact […]readmore
Rhode Island – On September 15, 2014 at approximately 12:50 p.m., Adult Correctional Institute (ACI) Minimum Security Inmate, Keurys Pena, age 25, aka Michael Santana, of Providence, walked away from his work assignment at the Prison Industries Building on the ACI Grounds in Cranston at 12:50 p.m. Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode […]readmore
LINCOLN, R.I., Sept. 17, 2014 – Amica Insurance recently donated a portable fingerprinting machine to the Lincoln Police Department in a ceremony held at Amica Center. The machine, made by Cogent and valued at approximately $10,000, scans the fingerprints onto a connected laptop. Both pieces of equipment are easy to transport, which will give the […]readmore
Pawtucket – Mayor Donald R. Grebien is urging residents to go on line and to vote for the newly reconstructed Pawtucket River Bridge as the top transportation projects in the United States. “Already the Pawtucket River Bridge has been recognized as one of the top ten Transportation Projects in the country”, said Mayor Grebien. “All […]readmore
Rhode Island – Work is underway to replace and upgrade Providence viaduct of Interstate 95, one of the busiest areas of the interstate on the East Coast. The Providence Journal reports that there will be a number of planned improvements to the stretch of highway that carries traffic beyond the city center. Plans include expanding […]readmore
BLOOMING GROVE, Pa (CNN) — He’s a survivalist with an extensive shooting background and a grudge against law enforcement, officials say. And now authorities worry the man suspected of gunning down two Pennsylvania State Police troopers may be on the hunt for more officers. Eric Matthew Frein «has made statements about wanting to kill law […]readmore
Berlin (CNN) — German prosecutors have charged a 93-year-old man with being an accessory to murder in at least 300,000 cases while working for the Nazis at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The man, from the German state of Lower Saxony, is accused of having helped remove the luggage left by new arrivals to the camp […]readmore
Thirty-five years ago today (Sept. 17), Americans got their first good look at a spaceship that would become a national icon. On Sept. 17, 1976, NASA’s prototype space shuttle Enterprise was rolled out of its assembly facility in Southern California and displayed before a crowd several thousand strong. Though Enterprise was a test vehicle that […]readmore
Lung cancer takes more lives than breast, prostate, and colon cancer combined. Rhode Island-area residents can join the movement to defeat lung cancer at the Seventh Annual Rhode Island Free to Breathe 5K run/walk and 1-mile walk on October 19 with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting Free to Breathe’s research, education and awareness programs. […]readmore
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