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SMITHFIELD — Ronald K. Machtley on Monday announced his plans to retire as president of Bryant University after the 2020 commencement.Machtley, 70, became Bryant's president in 1996. Under his leadership, the university said, Bryant has experienced "unprecedented growth" in academic excellence, enrollment, campus expansion, and endowments.In a news release, Machtley said, “It has been an honor to serve as president of Bryant University and [his wife] Kati and I [...]

PROVIDENCE — Supt. Christopher N. Maher has been hired as executive director of a non-profit organization that trains school leaders for city school districts.Maher, who recently announced his resignation in Providence, will run the School Systems Leaders Fellowship starting July 1."Maher brings a combination of executive, instructional, non-profit, and leadership development experience to the fellowship that will drive greater alignment with the evolving needs of [...]

CRANSTON — The city has settled a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, and agreed not to "selectively" enforce zoning ordinances barring commercial advertisements on city property.The ACLU lawsuit was filed two years ago in U.S. District Court, Providence, on behalf of Stephen Hunter, a bankruptcy lawyer who was threatened with fines if he did not take down advertisements that he had posted at various intersections.It said that even [...]

PROVIDENCE — The president and sole owner of a Providence jewelry manufacturing company pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion.According to a news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman, 47-year-old Byron Urizar, of Lincoln, admitted to diverting a large portion of checks made payable to his business —  B U  Inc. — by using a check casher. The news release said that Urizar admitted diverting from his business to himself more than five [...]

PROVIDENCE — The state Medical Examiner's Office has identified the body that was found Saturday in the water off Collier Point Park as belonging to a Central High School student who has been missing since Feb. 21.Police do not currently believe foul play was involved in the death of Cameron Chun, 17. They are still awaiting additional information from the medical examiner, according to a news release from the Police Department.The news release said the Providence police [...]

Anki is the latest casualty in the shuttering of once-promising consumer robotics companies, as lifelike robots struggle to compete against immobile smart speakers made by Amazon, Apple and Google.

Last month, his work was recognized with three first-place awards in the annual contest of the Rhode Island Press Association.

Inspired by floating communities in the Netherlands, two French engineers living in Miami designed Arkup, a $5.5-million self-sustaining luxury houseboat built to go with the flow of rising seas.

Woonsocket-based CVS has started laying off Tennessee-based workers, according to state records there.The Tennessee Department of Labor said that CVS Healthcare Corp. had filed an official notice on March 1 about the permanent closure of a facility in Nashville where 250 people work.The (Nashville) Tennessean reported that CVS was closing a Nashville call center.According to the document filed in Tennessee, the permanent closure began Friday.CVS did not [...]

75 years after he died in a plane crash in Europe after saving nine fellow crewmen, Lt. John Dudley Crouchley Jr. was buried with military honors at the North Burial Ground in Bristol, with dozens of relatives and members of the community in attendance. “It’s emotional,” said John Dudley Crouchley IV, his grandson, “but it’s almost like a homecoming.”