On Thursday, July 21st, 2016 at 1:55AM, Troopers assigned to the Lincoln Woods Barracks responded to a reported motor vehicle crash on Route 10 south just prior to the Pontiac Ave overpass in the City of Cranston. The initial investigation revealed a 2002, Honda, Civic, four-door sedan being operated by Meghan Kennedy, age 19, of […]readmore
WOONSOCKET, RI: Upgrades to the road surface for a major section of Cass Avenue are set to begin next week as the City of Woonsocket continues its summer road improvement campaign. Work on the main thoroughfare, one of the City’s busiest, will run from the intersection of Cass Avenue and Mendon Road to Cass Park, […]readmore
Public Policy Professor Mark Paige: Linking employment status value-added models based on standardized test scores “is unfair and flawed” A new book by UMass Dartmouth Public Policy Professor Mark Paige warns against using standardized test scores of students to evaluate teacher performance. The 142-page book, entitled Building a Better Teacher: Understanding Value-Added Models in the […]readmore
LINCOLN, RI — Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline announced over $300,000 in new federal funding for the Lime Rock Fire District, the Albion Fire Department, and the Rhode Island Fire Academy (RIFA) to purchase needed equipment. The funding is made available through the Federal Emergency […]readmore
By JIM MALEWITZ TEXAS TRIBUNE Texas’ voter identification law violates the U.S. law prohibiting racial discrimination in elections, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed previous rulings that the 2011 voter ID law — which stipulates the types of photo identification election officials can and cannot accept at […]readmore
Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of Public Safety and Chief Richard N. Ramsay, of the West Greenwich Police Department, announce that on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, members of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force and West Greenwich Police Department arrested Anne Armstrong, age: 56, […]readmore
*Statement by Cranston City Council City-Wide candidate Lammis J. Vargas* Cranston, RI – «Only days after announcing my candidacy for City Council and being endorsed by the Cranston City Democratic Committee, I became ill, had to be hospitalized and was diagnosed with APL Leukemia. I have always fought for what I believe in and will […]readmore
North Smithfield, R.I. – Banneker Industries is pleased to announce Daniel Sylvestre as the new Operations Manager for New England. With over 32 years of expertise in warehouse management, Mr. Sylvestre is a great addition. “Mr. Sylvestre’s time in the supply chain and logistics industry makes him a natural fit for the New England Operations […]readmore
WARWICK, RI – With the Rep. Carnevale controversy in mind, WatchdogRI looked at every Rhode Island legislator’s real estate disclosures on ethics filings looking for irregularities with ethics forms, campaign finance filings and Rhode Island real estate records. One issue that jumped out was corporate ownership of real estate occupied by state Senator Jabour (D-Providence). […]readmore
(Photo Credit: Grant Miller) VOA – An aide to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says she made a mistake in writing his wife Melania’s tribute to him this week by including identical phrases from a speech Michelle Obama gave supporting her husband Barack Obama’s 2008 run for the U.S. presidency. For two days, the Trump […]readmore