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Jewelry designer Alex and Ani LLC has purchased Wilson’s of Wickford’s North Kingston location, Alex and Ani CEO Giovanni Feroce announced late Tuesday.
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By Dana Reilly |
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Rhode Island’s gasoline prices rose 6 cents this week, according to AAA Southern New England. The cost of self-serve, unleaded regular averaged $3.69 per gallon in the Ocean State – up 6 cents from last week and 21 cents over the last month – according to the trade group’s weekly survey of Rhode Island’s pump prices.
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Flawed labor market data continues to confuse assessment of the state’s economic recovery, University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro reports in his latest Current …
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By Rebecca Keister |
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A second pool of mosquitoes in Rhode Island have tested positive for the West Nile Virus, according to the R.I. Department of Environmental Management.
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Rhode Island College and Teach For America, a program that places teachers in urban and rural educational systems, are partnering to offer a teacher certificate program in elementary education that could lead to a master’s degree in education.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Rhode Island was awarded $624,045 in federal funding to supplement the state’s emergency food and shelter programs.
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R.I. Department of Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist will undergo surgery to remove a believed benign brain tumor next month and will take an approximate two-month leave of absence for recovery, the department announced Tuesday.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Profit for Astro-Med Inc. dropped 5.6 percent to $987,000, or 13 cents per diluted share, during the second quarter of 2012, compared with $1.05 million, or 14 cents per diluted share, during the second quarter of 2011.
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Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee, the country’s only independent governor, is slated to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
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Pultizer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder talks about “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” a story of efforts to deliver health care to Haiti’s poorest citizens.
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By Richard Asinof |