All the headlines from our Rhode Island Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2008 // The Rhode Island man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving. As part of a plea deal, Stanley Kobierowski...
Oct 2 2008 // A crane that fell on a school under construction in Woonsocket, Rhode Island has damaged the building, but caused no injuries.An operator was warming up the crane Monday morning when its boom fell forward onto exposed...
Oct 2 2008 // FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, has made numerous promotions and reassignments within its senior management team that are to become effective Jan. 1, 2009.Brian J. Hurley,...
Sep 21 2008 // Downtown Providence was flooded and neighborhoods were destroyed. A group of school children who drowned after their bus was swept off the road were among the hundreds killed.It’s been 70 years since a catastrophic...
Sep 21 2008 // Tufts Health Plan will start insuring Rhode Island residents next year and compete against three existing insurers. Tufts President and CEO James Roosevelt Jr. said the Watertown, Mass.-based firm has been looking for...
Sep 18 2008 // Rhode Island is acting to safeguard the estimated $131 million it has in investment accounts managed by financially struggling insurance giant American International Group. State officials have formed a “SWAT...
Sep 5 2008 // The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire at a Great White concert killed 100 people have reached a tentative $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed, the latest in a flurry of agreements made in...
Sep 4 2008 // Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims’ relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday.The...
Aug 22 2008 // Officials in Johnston, Rhode Island say firefighters struggled to douse a large recycling plant fire over the weekend because cars there were stacked too high and were piled too close to each other.The blaze at the Metals...
Aug 21 2008 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision by refusing to hold a Manville couple liable for the injuries a woman and her boyfriend suffered in a car crash after drinking at the couple’s...
Aug 21 2008 // The Rhode Island high court has backed a 2006 law that applies harsher penalties to drivers who refuse to take a Breathalyzer test. The law doubled the minimum license suspension for those who refused the test to six...
Aug 20 2008 // Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch announced that cleanup of up to 600 housing units contaminated by lead paint is now going out to bid and said the work would target properties in poorer neighborhoods of the...
Aug 20 2008 // The state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick have each agreed to pay $10 million to those left behind after a nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according to court documents filed Monday.The latest settlement...
Aug 18 2008 // A lawyer for Rhode Island said Friday that three former lead paint companies should not be allowed to recoup costs from a nine-year legal fight with the state that ended last month in their favor.The state Supreme Court in...
Aug 11 2008 // Three former lead paint companies want to be reimbursed for some of the costs of defending against a public nuisance lawsuit filed by the state of Rhode Island.Last month, the state Supreme Court overturned...
Aug 11 2008 // The Woonsocket, Rhode Island Fire Department is warning city residents to be on the look out for phony fire marshals.Officials say one or more people have been falsely representing themselves as a fire marshal. The...
Aug 6 2008 // A Rhode Island man who authorities say had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit has been arraigned on a drunken driving charge.Stanley Kobierowski, of North Providence, appeared briefly in Providence...
Jul 25 2008 // Rhode Island state police say they arrested a man this week whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn’t dead.Stanley Kobierowski was taken to a...
Jul 23 2008 // Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri has signed legislation approved by the General Assembly to strengthen the so-called “social host” law and address a number of other issues regarding underage drinking and...
Jul 14 2008 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision by refusing to hold a Manville couple liable for the injuries a woman and her boyfriend suffered in a car crash after drinking at the couple’s...