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TIVERTON — Months of negotiations over a new bus contract and an addendum that requires the School Department to pay for buses even if they are idled due to a possible future school closing because of COVID-19, have come to an end with a vote to approve.Along with that vote that was taken recently is…

Rain this week could help quench a Southern New England landscape desperately in need of water, according to the National Weather Service.”Things are falling into place to bring a prolonged period of potentially drought busting (or at least drought alleviating) rainfall to southern New England between Tuesday night and Thursday morning,” the Weather Service says.…

President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report in The New York Times.Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public, paid…

Mild and humid with fog and low clouds in the morning and a slight chance of showers between 2pm and 3pm, according to the National Weather Service.Another chance of showers, mainly after 11 p.m. into Monday morning. The rain could be heavy at times. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

Minutes after President Trump announced his nominee to the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. tweeted:”Three years ago, Judge Amy Coney Barrett authored an article suggesting the Affordable Care Act should be struck down.”That means 20 million ppl losing health care and ending protections for pre-existing conditions.”It’s all…

When the call came from my son’s school, I knew this day was inevitable.My son is in kindergarten five days a week. He has no use for personal space. “I forget,” he says when I remind him to keep distance between him and friends.That morning my son had been fine. His temperature was normal when…

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The University of Rhode Island has canceled spring break in 2021, part of changes to its calendar aimed at “ensuring that the university’s spring semester runs as smoothly as possible” in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.The move, announced Friday evening, was approved Sept. 17 by the university’s Faculty Senate and endorsed…

PROVIDENCE — Saturday is Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Room Technician Alma Garcia’s day off, and she plans to take her boyfriend and her son to see a new public art installation now hanging at the Providence Community Health Center at 355 Prairie Ave.It’s an eight-foot-tall banner designed by local artist René Gómez, and it’s special…

EAST PROVIDENCE — Under one scenario, contractors would build homes, commercial space and parking on about half of the Metacomet Golf Club property while the public would enjoy the remainder of the leafy and grassy onetime golf course.Under the other scenario, commercial and office space, parking and buffers would take up the entire property without…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her family are facing a 35 million pound ($45 million) hit from the coronavirus pandemic, partly due to a shortage of tourists, the monarch’s money-manager said Friday.Releasing the royal household’s annual accounts, Keeper of the Privy Purse Michael Stevens said a lack of income from visitors to…

Heavy surf over the past week carved away 50 feet from the edge of the bluff in Cisco, leading to the emergency demolition of a summer home and garage at the end of Hummock Pond Road.One house is all that’s left on the property, perched on cribbing about 10 feet from the edge of the…

Three Metro-North Railroad employees were suspended after Metropolitan Transportation Authority investigators discovered they’d created a “man cave,” complete with a flat-screen television and a beer-stocked refrigerator, in a storage room beneath Grand Central Terminal in New York.The air-conditioned room came complete with microwave, workout equipment, and hide-a-way beds, MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said Thursday.”Many…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump declined to commit Wednesday to providing a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election, prompting a backlash on social media from critics who said it raised questions about his willingness to relinquish power.”Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said when asked directly whether he…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated PressTURNER, Ore. (AP) — Smoke from the West Coast wildfires has tainted grapes in some of the nation’s most celebrated wine regions with an ashy flavor that could spell disaster for the 2020 vintage.Wineries in California, Oregon and Washington have survived severe wildfires before, but the smoke from this year’s blazes…

Southern New England should have a stretch of pleasant weather before “much-needed” rain could arrive next week, according to the National Weather Service says.”High pressure over the Mid Atlantic region will provide warm and dry weather into this weekend, with temperatures and humidity peaking Sunday, providing a touch of summer-like conditions,” the Weather Service says.…

Rhode Island’s black bears will be the topic of the first in a series of virtual outreach programs this fall from the state Department of Environmental Management.”All About Bears” will be presented on Wednesday, September 30 at 6:30 p.m. in partnership with the Warwick Public Library, according to the DEM.The DEM’s Division of Fish and…

With strong wind gusts and low humidity expected on this Wednesday, the National Weather Service is again warning about an increased chance of wildfires.”The prolonged dry weather across most of southern New England has resulted in very low live and dead fuel moisture. With low relative humidity and gusty winds today, any fires which escape…

The year 2020 was supposed to be a big one for the Pilgrims.Dozens of events were planned to mark the 400th anniversary of the religious separatists’ arrival at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts. But many of those activities have been postponed or canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Historian Elizabeth Fenn finds that deeply…

Fall arrives this morning, followed by gusty winds.The day is starting with a light north wind that will increase to 13 to 18 mph with gusts up to 32 mph, according to the National Weather Service.”Hurricane Teddy will pass well east of our coastline today and tonight as it heads into the Canadian Maritimes Wednesday.…

A driver died in a one-crash on Middlebridge Road Sunday night, according to the South Kingstown Police.It was the second fatal crash in South Kingstown Monday.The crash happened at about 10 p.m. near 989 Middlebridge Road. The driver was the sole occupant.Members of the South Kingstown Police, South Kingstown Emergency Medical Services, Kingston Fire and…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to announce new restrictions on social interactions Tuesday as the government tries to slow the spread of COVID-19 before it spirals out of control.Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told Sky News that pubs and restaurants across England will be ordered to close at 10 p.m. and…

NEWPORT — He remembered U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an elegant woman with a “refined” nature.James Leach hosted Ginsburg at his former Newport estate in 2004. Leach, at the time, served on the board of the Touro Synagogue Foundation and later became the board’s vice chairman.”She was [in Newport] for Touro Synagogue…