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RI State Police chief to attend Israel anti-terrorism seminar
Brendan Doherty, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, is one of 17 law enforcement leaders from around the country selected to attend a counter-terrorism seminar in Israel later this month. Doherty is attending the conference from March 20-28 at the invitation of The Anti-Defamation League, one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations.
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Cholera outbreak in Mozambique proves deadly
Mozambique’s health ministry spokesman, Leonardo Chavane says the country’s cholera outbreak has now killed 42 people in the northern and central parts of the southern African country. The disease is spreading, with more than 2,600 cases of people who have contracted the highly contagious yet easily preventable infection this year. The situation remains worrying as [...]
Obama proposes new overhaul of education law
The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions in the system. By announcing that he would send his education blueprint to Congress today, President Obama returned to a campaign promise to repair the sprawling federal law, which affects [...]
A new financial reform bill in the Senate this week
Senate Democrats will press forward this week on legislation to overhaul the nation’s financial system in a critical test of whether Washington can pass reform. The bill that Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, will introduce today appears written with the goal of forging a consensus that can overcome partisan division, with [...]
Local weather update
The stormy weather conditions have been causing problems across the Northeast. Rhode Island engineers are deciding whether to open a dam in West Warwick that’s close to breaking. After conferring with state and town officials, David Smith, director of the state Emergency Management Agency, said the Arctic Dam is not in immediate danger of [...]
Priest close to Pope is suspended in abuse case
Peter Hullermann, the priest at the center of a German sex-abuse scandal that has embroiled Pope Benedict the 16th was suspended today, more than 30 years after the church first heard allegations that he had molested children. Father Hullermann was convicted of sexually abusing children in the Bavarian town of Grafing in June 1986 by [...]
Governor Carcieri orders flags to half-staff for late trooper
Sgt. James D. Dougherty, an off-duty state police sergeant whose family has deep roots in the department died early Sunday after his car hydroplaned and hit a utility pole on Route 3, according to the state police. Dougherty, was pronounced dead at the scene by West Greenwich rescue workers.
Gov. Don Carcieri said today that [...]
Proposal to set US Education standards released
Culminating a year’s work, The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, released a set of proposed common academic standards today. The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten [...]
Patrick Kennedy blasts Afghanistan policy
U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy attacked U.S. policy in Afghanistan as “shameful” and called the national press as “despicable” for what he portrayed as its “cynicism” and its insufficient coverage of the issue. Raising his voice in a House floor speech on a resolution to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, the Rhode Island Democrat [...]
Six charity workers killed in Pakistan
Six Pakistani employees of the American Christian charity World Vision were gunned down today, and seven others were wounded in an attack on the aid group’s offices in a remote village in northern Pakistan. Pakistani authorities said about a dozen masked militants stormed the building at about 9:30 a.m., pulled the staff members out of [...]
