Deborah Block November 18, 2015 A new full body PET scanner is being developed that could revolutionize how scientists see the inner workings of the human body, possibly leading to the development of better and safer drugs to target diseases such as cancer, heart disease and brain disorders. Unlike X-rays and MRI’s, which provide images […]Load more...
VOA News November 18, 2015 Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal are safely home in the United States after last Friday’s Paris attacks and, as they said in a statement, are «still trying to come to terms with what happened.» The California band had just taken the stage at the Bataclan concert hall […]Load more...
Associated Press November 18, 2015 LOS ANGELES—British soccer star David Beckham has been an international sex symbol for nearly two decades, but he says he’s still flattered to be namedPeople magazine’s 30th-anniversary Sexiest Man Alive. «t’s a huge honor,» the 40-year-old Beckham told the magazine, which announced its choice on ABC’s «Jimmy Kimmel Live» on Tuesday night. «I’m […]Load more...
VOA News Last updated on: November 18, 2015 2:23 PM The Paris prosecutor said Wednesday it remains unclear whether the suspected «mastermind» of last week’s terrorist attacks was killed at the suburban Paris apartment building police raided in the pre-dawn hours in the belief he was holed up there. Police stormed the apartment building in […]Load more...
Ken Bredemeier Last updated on: November 18, 2015 12:18 PM The Islamic State group has released a photo of what it claims is the bomb that took down a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month and says it targeted the plane because of Moscow’s aerial bombardment in Syria. The photo, appearing on the […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, RI - Mayor Jorge Elorza today announced a Winter Swim program which includes free swim lessons and activities at Pleasant View Elementary School on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. this winter. "I'm excited to announce the Winter Swim Program and I hope families throughout the city will participate," said Mayor Elorza. "This […]Load more...
Colonel Michael J. Winquist, Chief of the Cranston Police Department, announces that an arrest has been made as a result of an investigation of a fatal fire that claimed the life of a local woman and her unborn baby. On November 13, 2015, at approximately 7:42pm the Cranston Fire Department was dispatched to a house […]Load more...
Rhode Island offers companies access to research and development and other partners to help them grow PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo, with Secretary of Commerce Stefan Pryor, today launched three new innovation-focused incentive programs aimed at jumpstarting Rhode Island’s economy. Applications for the Innovation Vouchers, Industry Cluster Grants and Innovation Network Matching Grants […]Load more...
Jeff Swicord November 17, 2015 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA—Editor’s note: VOA’s Jeff Swicord visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo to examine radical extremism in the Balkans. This is the second of three parts.In September 1993, a battalion of foreign Islamic fighters overran a village near the Croat-held town of Vitez in central Bosnia-Herzegovina. They rounded up the […]Load more...
Cranston – Firefighters found the body of 32-year-old Aliss Collins Friday night inside a third-floor apartment on Marcy Street. Collins and her unborn child were pronounced dead at a hospital. The Rhode Island Department of Health revealed Wednesday that Collins died from multiple blunt force trauma head injuries, along with smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide […]Load more...