A couple in the Philippines went ahead with their wedding Sunday despite the eruption of a volcano spewing ash into the sky behind them.

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Columbia attorney Luther Battiste III has been elected president of a national lawyers’ group, the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Battiste, 70, who served 15 years on the Columbia … Click to Continue »

Columbia attorney Luther Battiste III has been elected president of a national lawyers’ group, the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Battiste, 70, who served 15 years on the Columbia … Click to Continue »

PROVIDENCE — While he fought cancer in a Vancouver hospital, Bramwell Tovey, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra’s artistic director and conductor, was asked to listen to a CD of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with himself conducting, and decide whether it was good enough for broadcast.At 22, the British native was hired as staff conductor of…

“The governor has asked us to look for ways to make transportation more efficient,” says state Director of Transportation Peter Alviti Jr.

House Republican Leader Blake Filippi was headed to court on Thursday to “rectify [an] abuse of power” by House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello when he “ordered an illegal audit” of the Rhode Island Convention Center.

Good Samaritans come to the rescue after spotting the boys in the Taunton River.

PROVIDENCE — Gun-rights activists thronged the State House early Thursday evening for a rally that packed the government building with gun owners who want legislators to oppose new gun control proposals.Wearing yellow, they lined the hallways and gathered in the rotunda. They also waited lengthy periods outside in the street to gain entry.“These are our…

At 8:30 a.m. Thursday, the secretary of state began accepting letters of intent to run in the April 28 primaries and providing nomination papers.

NEW YORK — Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” whose serious, sober demeanor made him the choice to moderate 11 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.Lehrer died “peacefully in his sleep,” according to PBS. He had suffered a heart attack in 1983 and more…

The attorney for Ryan Moniz, who lost his job as head coach of the Portsmouth High School football team following the suicide of a student, sent a letter to the Town Council on Tuesday demanding “just and due” compensation for his client.

Good afternoon and welcome to This Just In. I’m Mike McDermott, managing editor of The Providence Journal.It began with a hit-and-run crash that caused no injuries and minimal damage. It led eventually to the arrest of an East Providence city councilman, Brian Faria. The case has been dismissed, but the now out-of-office Faria sees it…

A grand jury has handed up an indictment that accuses a 22-year-old Providence woman of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an infant in March 2019, according to the office of Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.In April, Providence police charged the woman, Ginalys Velasquez Camara, with first-degree murder, saying she had not met her responsibility…