U.S. gasoline demand rose 1.3 percent last week to the highest level since December as drivers paid the lowest average prices in 12 weeks, according to MasterCard Inc. 4:10 pm
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Engineers and scientists at Brown University are using a combination of two established – but very different – techniques in an effort to efficiently remove heavy metals from industrial wastewater.
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Rhode Island’s gasoline dropped 3 cents this week, the fifth week of declines after five consecutive weeks of increases, according to AAA Southern New England. May 21
Oil headed for a third weekly drop in New York after Germany’s finance minister said Europe’s crisis may last another two years and reports added to evidence of a slowdown in China. May 18
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The R.I. Economic Development Corporation board of directors adjourned its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Monday without taking any action on the troubled video game developer 38 Studios LLC. May 21
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38 Studios LLC founder Curt Schilling, along with a team from his company, have come and gone from the weekly meeting of the board of directors of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation without a comment. May 21
The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a $675,000 jury verdict against a college student who downloaded and redistributed thousands of songs from the Internet without paying. May 21
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Rhode Island’s gasoline dropped 3 cents this week, the fifth week of declines after five consecutive weeks of increases, according to AAA Southern New England. May 21
Oil headed for a third weekly drop in New York after Germany’s finance minister said Europe’s crisis may last another two years and reports added to evidence of a slowdown in China. May 18
Grow Smart Rhode Island presented its inaugural Smart Growth Awards to 12 different people and projects during its 4th biennial Power of Place Summit. May 11
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While home sales in Rhode Island and the rest of Massachusetts surged in April, single-family sales in Bristol County, Mass. dropped 7 percent compared with the same period in 2011, The Warren Group said Tuesday. 10:02 am
Rhode Island home sales jumped 24 percent in April compared with the same period last year, the 10th consecutive month of increased year-over-year sales, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors said Tuesday. 9:37 am
It may be the best-kept secret in home real estate: For a couple of hundred dollars, a potential buyer thinking about writing a contract on an existing house can ask for a formal energy audit along with the standard inspection clause. That audit, in turn, can save the buyer thousands of dollars in future operating costs, and pinpoint the specific features of the house that need correction to improve efficiency. It might also be a tipoff to a sobering reality: This house is an energy guzzler. Either the asking price comes down, the seller fixes the problems, or I walk. May 19
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