Access Point RI CEO and President Tom Kane CRANSTON, RI—Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung joined the Cornerstone School community along with donors and volunteers to celebrate the school’s new playground on Tuesday. Mayor Fung Mayor Fung joined Access Point RI CEO and President Tom Kane, Cameron & Mittleman Managing Partner Karen DelPonte and Doris […]readmore
After years of bitter legal wrangling, the Austrian government announced plans Monday to demolish the house where Adolf Hitler was born and replace it with a new building in efforts to erase any link to the Nazi dictator’s birthplace. Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said in an exclusive interview with Austrian newspaper Die Presse the Hitler […]readmore
Margaret Besheer VOA News UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is bracing for what could be its biggest humanitarian challenge. As Iraqi and Kurdish forces move to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city from Islamic State fighters, the U.N. said Monday as many as 1 million civilians could try to flee the fighting. «Of the million, upward of […]readmore
Jeff Seldin PENTAGON — One day into the Iraqi-led operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State terror group, a hopeful Pentagon proclaimed the effort “ahead of schedule,” well aware the outcome could have a significant impact on U.S. strategy in the region. About 30,000 Iraqi troops and 4,000 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters began advancing on […]readmore
VOA News The prisoner who wrote Guantanamo Diary, a memoir recounting his daily life as a detainee in a controversial U.S. military prison, has been released from captivity after 14 years. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 45, has gone home to his native Mauritania after spending more than a decade at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Mauritanian had […]readmore
Providence DHS Center to remain open until 6:30pm two days a week to help ease wait times PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo directed the Department of Human Services to immediately begin offering extended hours two days a week at the Providence DHS Field Office in an effort to reduce lobby wait times and […]readmore
CRANSTON, RI—Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung joined more than 240 people at Cranston Country Club on Sunday to congratulate five new inductees to the Cranston Hall of Fame. The annual ceremony honors people who attended Cranston Public Schools and went on to serve the community in their public, private and professional lives while embodying the […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, R.I.— The Providence City Council and Food Trucks In are excited to announce that the successful first season of Food Trucks at City Hall has been extended to include a special Halloween-themed event on Thursday, October 27th. Food trucks will have candy on hand for kids in costume. «As our first season of Food […]readmore
WARWICK, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo joined students at Pilgrim High School in Warwick for a PSAT pep rally today. Thanks to new funding in the budget, both the SAT and PSAT will be offered for free and during the school day to 10th and 11th grade public high school students. Students across the […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI-In response to public concerns regarding the City’s financial outlook and uncertainty surrounding the City’s proposed contract with the Providence Firefighters’ Union (Local 799), Finance Committee Chairman John Igliozzi today issued the following update: «The administration has submitted a four-page document to the City Council that alleges savings in its precedent-setting request for a […]readmore