Rhode Island Social Blog

Coming off a record breaking 2011, Foundation Financial Group, with Rochester offices at 1 S. Washington Street, Suite 300, seeks to hire 11 full time employees for positions such as marketing professionals, loan […]

A scrap pile sitting on the Providence waterfront is finally being cleaned up – but as the metal goes, jobs are coming in.

Your dog may be barking for joy about temperatures in the
50s, but unfortunately ticks like this weather too.

The Rhode Island State Police executed a search warrant at the Institute for International Sport in Kingston to track a trail involving $575,000 in taxpayers’ money .

The former mob boss of the Patriarca crime family pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, but in a surprise turn of events, the man investigators say was his mafia captain didn’t like what he heard from […]

Time is ticking away for Rhode Islanders who want to be delegates at the Democratic or Republican presidential conventions this summer.

For this day of repentance, local clergy took to the streets — to make it more convenient for the faithful to receive the sacramentals of ashes on their foreheads.

A grand jury has indicted a Providence man on charges of manslaughter after police and prosecsaid he punched another man, causing him to fall to his death.

Officials at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence are trying to identify a mysterious illness that’s afflicting a 30-year-old
white-cheeked gibbon named Gloria.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said Wednesday that it expects road repairs to continue throughout the week, following a fiery tractor trailer crash on Route 79 in Fall River.  In the meantime, a […]

Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner has rejected a request by Blue Cross & Blue Shield to hike its premiums on people who buy their own insurance and ordered the company to charge 1.1 percent less.

Detachment 23 Operation Support Airlift Command will leave from the Quonset Air National Guard Base in North Kingstown on Friday.

Central Falls native and now Oscar nominee Viola Davis started her career right here in Rhode Island and no one is happier about her best actress nominations more than her sister.

On the eve of a plea hearing with the reputed former mob boss of the New England crime family, the lawyer for one accused mob associate is sending signals they too may be close to an agreement with federal […]

A car has crashed into a Providence home on the corner of Butler Ave. and Waterman St.

Providence police say a series of shootings and weapons arrests in the city since November is the result of an ongoing feud between local Asian gangs.

The West Warwick Town Council voted Tuesday night to table councilman Ed
Giroux’s ordinance that would charge taxpayers a fee each time the fire department responds to an emergency.

The man the Feds say used to run the New England mob, is expected to admit to a federal racketeering charge Wednesday.

Rhode Island’s governor has announced the creation of a commission to oversee the planning of next year’s
350th anniversary celebration of the signing of the state’s charter.

Some Providence students had the surprise of a lifetime when they had an unexpected meeting with the First Lady.