Beacon Mutual Insurance Company (“Beacon”) has been named the First Place Winner of the Best Places to Work in Rhode Island by Providence Business News (PBN) in the Large Company category for the second consecutive year. The award was announced June 6 at PBN ceremonies at the Crowne Plaza. In a release, Brian Spero, President … Read more
By CHRISTOPHER SHEA Rhode Island Current The Warwick-based company that previously worked on the westbound Washington Bridge before its sudden closure last December is the state’s choice to tear it down. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s (RIDOT) public bid portal Friday afternoon revealed Aetna Bridge Co. was awarded a tentative contract to demolish the … Read more
A Priority Mail package is seen at a USPS facility in La Vergne, Tennessee, on Nov. 4, 2021. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) PROVIDENCE, RI. (WPRI) — A Warwick woman was indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud charges Tuesday for allegedly scamming individuals out of a total of $10 million through mail sweepstakes … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI — Independence Day is fast approaching, so it’s time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Providence. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun. To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going … Read more
Elizabeth Turley and Vallery Maravi 7 mins ago CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — On Sunday, June 23, the congregation at Holy Apostles Church celebrated a group of parishioners who had just arrived back in Rhode Island, thanking God for their safe return from a weeklong mission trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Just over a week later, … Read more
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Attorney General Peter Neronha said a Providence man was found guilty for the shooting and injuring of a 42-year-old in 2021. 42-year-old Alex “Bemba” Perez was charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon resulting in serious bodily injury, one count of discharging a firearm resulting in permanent incapacity, … Read more
Editor’s note: This press release was provided by Providence College. The Pelham Examiner publishes press releases in the form received as a service to the community. (Providence, R.I.) – The Providence College (PC) Army ROTC commissioned thirteen cadets as second lieutenants in the United States Army on Friday, May 17 at the College. One of … Read more
Sarah Doiron and Jake Holter 7 mins ago PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island is set to receive a more than $3.8 million federal grant to address the state’s housing crisis. The money was earmarked through the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) program, which aims to identify and remove affordable housing barriers, … Read more
CRANSTON, R.I. — The families of three men who died by suicide at the Adult Correctional Institutions last year are suing the prison’s supervisors and staff, arguing that they were “deliberately indifferent” to their risk of suicide. Cooperating attorneys for the ACLU of Rhode Island filed the lawsuits in US District Court on Wednesday on … Read more
Using the Dunlap version, Solomon Southwick, printer of the Newport Mercury, on July 12, 1776, was paid to make 29 prints to be distributed to town clerks in Rhode Island, according to the State Archives. Only six are known to exist. One copy has remained at its intended destination for nearly 250 years. A Southwick … Read more