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A hurricane that crossed Bermuda early Monday morning is sending powerful surf to the coast of Southern New England, according to the National Weather Service.The Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory because Hurricane Paulette is generating big ocean swells and an increasing risk for rip currents on ocean exposed beaches. The storm made…

Dry and quiet weather expected Sunday, with a high near 74. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning.As a weakening cold front approaches from the west, it could bring an isolated shower Sunday night, but should remain dry, low around 64, according to the National Weather Service. Top Featured…

First it was toilet paper, now it’s lumber, which is suddenly elusive and very expensive due to surging demand and COVID-related supply-chain disruptions. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

Such was the case with a cartoon in Wednesday’s Journal by Clay Bennett that showed President Donald Trump putting a medal around a soldier’s neck. On the medal was emblazoned the word “LOSER.” Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

Rhode Island’s Democratic leaders Friday said they plan to approve a state budget and call a special election to green-light state borrowing sometime after they face voters in the November general election.For months, top lawmakers have held off on passing the state’s annual tax-and-spending plan, usually approved in June, as they wait for Congress to…

Donald J. Trump Jr. has dropped into a discussion about racial diversity and the future of two murals on display at the University of Rhode Island since the 1950s, ready to call it another case of a war memorial cancel-culture in higher education.”Truly sick,” Trump said in a tweet on Thursday. “Don’t let the Left…

When Zambarano Hospital opened on then-remote Wallum Lake in Burrillville in 1905 as the State Sanatorium for Consumptives (people sick with tuberculosis), TB was the leading cause of death in the U.S. — ahead of flu, pneumonia and heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That year, the bacterial lung disease…

Drier, cooler air is moving into the region and will stay through Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.”Cold front moves out to sea and high pressure nudges in behind it. This will bring dry, cool, less-humid conditions to southern New England today through Saturday,” the Weather Service says in its forecast discussion. “Another cold…

NEWPORT — Four people were arrested Saturday night after several fights broke out in the area of Jade Way.Police were in the area of Jade Way on Saturday night to monitor a crowd of approximately 75 to 100 people, according to Newport Officer John Sullivan’s report.The police department had fielded “numerous complaints” of fireworks “and…

GRIDLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California wildfire that destroyed a foothill hamlet has become the state’s deadliest blaze of the year with 10 people confirmed dead — and the toll could climb as searchers look for 16 missing people.The North Complex fire that exploded in wind-driven flames earlier in the week was advancing more…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs are stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral pandemic flattened the economy.The latest figure released by the Labor Department Thursday still far exceeds the number who sought benefits in any…

EXETER — A woman voting at Tuesday’s primary found an unorthodox way of protesting the town moderator, who ruled her T-shirt was a form of electioneering: She took it off and voted topless.Town Moderator Paul Scafidi said the woman walked into the Talbot Gymnasium in the afternoon wearing a “McCain Hero, Trump Zero” T-shirt. As…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder, singer and producer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68.Bell died at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands Wednesday morning with his wife by his side, publicist Sujata Murthy said. The cause of death has not been released.Kool & the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A far-right Norwegian lawmaker said Wednesday that he has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East.Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the far-right Progress Party, said Trump should be considered because of his work “for a peace agreement…

The East Providence police are looking for the public’s help in finding a dirt bike rider who’s been “aggressively confronting and taunting civilians and police officers.”The police have tried stopping the rider several times over the last two weeks, they say in a Facebook post. “This person has been operating on our roads in an…

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires raged unchecked throughout California Wednesday, and gusty winds could drive flames into new ferocity, authorities warned.Diablo winds in the north and Santa Ana winds in the south were forecast into Wednesday at a time when existing wildfires already have grown explosively.On Tuesday, 14 firefighters were forced to deploy emergency…

A 65-year-old man died after he was struck by a motor vehicle Sunday in Narragansett.The man was identified as William Hird Jr.He was struck at about 5:30 p.m. on Kingstown Road, west of the Boon Street intersection, the Narragansett police said in a press release.Hird was taken to Rhode Island Hospital and later pronounced dead,…

The Warwick police are looking for help finding a suspect who tried breaking into the Beach Café and Pub on Oakland Beach Avenue late last month.”After attempting to access multiple doors, he was so ’HANGRY’ that he smashed the patio glass door,” the police said in a Facebook post. […] Top Featured Tags: – Rhode…

PROVIDENCE — One vehicle lay on its roof, wheels in the air, and the other had its nose buried in the garage door that secures the front of Elmwood Tax Service, 622 Elmwood Ave., Monday afternoon.The operator of the car that hit the building was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with minor injuries, Providence Battalion…

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Landlords are feeling the pain and worry more is to come in the months ahead following the Trump administration’s imposition of a moratorium on evictions for tenants who say they are unable to pay their rent due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”It’s going to harm landlords. It’s going to kill some of them,” said Michael Crane,…

LINCOLN — A London company with a factory in Lincoln thinks it has a solution to two problems brought on by the coronavirus pandemic:How to protect workers at companies whose customers forget to bring a mask, and what to do with discarded disposable masks that are piling up in the most unlikely places.MOO, which prints…