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RIPTA manager gets one-year contract extension

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority voted Monday to give General Manager Alfred J. Moscola a one-year contract extension. Chairman John Rupp said he expects that Moscola will remain "for a considerable period of time as the......

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Construction to close part of Routes 95, 195 in Providence

PROVIDENCE, RI. - - The Department of Transportation said it will close sections of Route 95 north and south in Providence on various nights during the next two weeks for work on Route 95 and Route 195. In addition to......

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Carcieri vetoes bills to limit use of tracking devices

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have limited the way government uses electronic devices that allow tracking people and objects like motor vehicles, something privacy advocates are concerned about. The governor's veto messages on two......

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Brown, food service workers reach tentative settlement

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University and its food service workers reached a tentative contract settlement early today, shortly after the union's contract expired at midnight. Mark Nickel, Brown's director of university communications, said that negotiators reached the agreement with Local......

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Stimulus grant goes to improving Pawtucket rail system

PAWTUCKET, RI -- The state will get $460,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation for improvements at the rail layover facility in Pawtucket, the federal agency said Thursday. In the announcement, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the money, from the......

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Hospital group announces layoffs

FALL RIVER, Mass -- Southcoast Hospitals Group, which operates hospitals in Fall River and New Bedford, said Thursday that it will lay off 20 to 40 people during the next six months. President and CEO Keith A. Hovan also announced......

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Lynch says state residents will benefit from Countrywide settlement

Providence, RI - Atty. General Patrick C. Lynch said that a national settlement with Countrywide Financial Corp. will benefit as many as 1,000 Rhode Island borrowers who were foreclosed on or otherwise affected by the giant mortgage lender's business practices.......

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