The head of Rhode Island's emergency management agency says there is no immediate threat that a dam on a flooded river in West Warwick will fail. J. David Smith said Monday that officials are evaulating whether boards along the top of the private dam should be ...

Ashley Delgado graduated from one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college — if only she could get there. When Delgado's parents could not take her to visit Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., her French teacher at Central Falls High ...

Ryan Brooks scored 16 points and No. 17 Temple held Rhode Island to its lowest point total in five years for a 57-44 victory in an Atlantic 10 Conference tournament semifinal Saturday. Sophomore guard Juan Fernandez once again ignited the top-seeded Owls (28-5), scoring ...

As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time ...