Several of Rhode Island’s elected officials said Monday they are pushing to secure federal grants instead of loans for hundreds of businesses trying to recover from the worst flooding in 200 years, although a week after flood waters first creeped …
Oscar-nominated actor James Woods settled a lawsuit against a Rhode Island hospital where his brother, Michael, died, a judge announced this week. A hospital executive apologized and agreed to start an institute in his brother’s name. The settlement, which also …
Some of the Rhode Island’s largest employers say they don’t expect any major changes in the benefits they give gay employees after Attorney General Patrick Lynch last week said the state should recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts. Lynch’s nonbinding …
If money talks, as it so often does in Florida politics, Senate President Tom Lee should be favored to win the Republican nomination in a three-way contest for chief financial officer that’s focusing on who can solve the state’s property …
When the state of Rhode Island dropped DuPont Co. from its sweeping lawsuit against former makers of lead paint last year, one of the terms was that DuPont would donate $9 million to the Children’s Health Forum for clean-up and …
Rhode Island’s Ethics Commission has agreed to look into a complaint brought against Attorney General Patrick Lynch over campaign donations he accepted from a lawyer for DuPont Co. when he was negotiating to drop the company from the state’s lawsuit …
