Providene – Family Service of Rhode Island, a statewide non-profit serving abused children and many other Rhode Islanders in need, is honoring Providence College men’s basketball coach Ed Cooley at its 12th annual Brighter Futures luncheon on Wednesday, October 26, at the Rhode Island Convention Center beginning at noon. Featured speakers will include Coach Ed […]Load more...
Clearinghouse for Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Incentives BOSTON – October 25, 2016- The Baker-Polito Administration today announced the launch of Commonwealth Energy Tool for Savings (energyCENTS), a web platform for the Commonwealth’s ratepayers to search available energy saving opportunities. Developed and launched by the Department of Energy Resources (DOER), energyCENTS provides a single entry […]Load more...
VOA News In a story that could come straight from a horror movie, an Arizona man has died four days after developing a flesh-eating bacteria infection. According to DelmarvaNow, Michael Funk began to feel ill on Sept. 11 in his Ocean City, Maryland, condo. He had been cleaning crab pots. After being transported to a […]Load more...
Care package initiative expected to serve over 350 troops who are away from home during the holidays PROVIDENCE, R.I. – This morning, Lieutenant Governor Daniel J. McKee launched the 14th Annual Operation Holiday Cheer accompanied by Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian, Brigadier General Christopher P. Callahan of the Rhode Island National Guard and a host of […]Load more...
June Soh VOA News WASHINGTON — «The Art of the Qur’an», the first major exhibition of its type in the United States that opened Oct. 22 in Washington, features more than 60 of the most important manuscripts of and about the Quran, created over more than 1,000 years across the Islamic world – from North Africa […]Load more...
Three Massachusetts firms, one Rhode Island firm, submit qualifications The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced today that it has received proposals from four real estate development firms in response to a request for qualifications (RFQ) process for the construction of the Providence Intermodal Transit Center, a facility that will integrate bus and train […]Load more...
HOUSTON — Texas, a state known for oil production, has become a leader in the development and use of renewable energy, especially wind power. And solar energy production is growing rapidly in the “Lone Star state” spurred on by the state’s abundant sunshine and the sharp drop in the price of solar panels in recent years. […]Load more...
Carla Babb VOA News PENTAGON — The United Nations said Tuesday it has preliminary reports of extrajudicial killings and summary executions by Islamic State fighters around the northern city of Mosul, including the militants using civilians as human shields. U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva the reports have not been fully verified, […]Load more...
Daniel Schearf VOA News MOSCOW — In Russia’s so-called «information war» with the West, the pro-Kremlin youth group SET (Network) is a foot soldier fighting primarily on the internet. At their roomy headquarters in an upscale office compound in Moscow, the group designs online videos criticizing the West and praising President Vladimir Putin – videos they […]Load more...
VOA News An extremist attack targeting non-Muslims along Kenya’s northeast border with Somalia on Tuesday has killed 12 people, according to a Kenyan official. Militants belonging to the Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab attacked the Bisharo Guest House, a lodging in Mandera County that hosts out-of-towners, with grenades and IEDs, Mandera County commander Job Boronjo said. […]Load more...