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Archive of Rhode Island on Wednesday November 04, 2009
RI: H1N1 to blame for girl's death; new case probed
Health officials confirmed Tuesday that the 12-year-old Lincoln girl who died over the weekend did have swine flu, and revealed that a middle-aged woman died Monday of a suspected case. Read More
RI: New R.I. law banning indoor prostitution leads some spas to close
Word that Rhode Island's governor signed legislation Tuesday afternoon to outlaw indoor prostitution traveled quickly through the state's community of sex workers, leaving many of the women who work at Asian "spas" on edge and their employers angry and without customers. Read More
RI: RI Ethics Commission dismisses GOP charge against Attorney General Lynch
The Rhode Island Ethics Commission on Tuesday dismissed a complaint against Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch for accepting a $428 plane ticket from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) for a conference in New Orleans last year. Read More
RI: Without notice expungements almost expanded
Amid the chaos of last week's special legislative session, advocates of a bill that would automatically erase a whole new class of criminal records scored a short-lived victory at the State House. Read More
CT: State helps fight electricity rate system
A coalition of New England states, energy consumers and a utility urged the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to reject a federal regulatory structure that coalition members said would hold people who already pay the nation's highest electric rates hostage to wholesale rates set by private companies. Read More |
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