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PROVIDENCE -- The temperature should climb a little higher today but isn't likely to reach the normal high for the season, according to the National Weather Service.Expect a high of 54 degrees today in Providence, three degrees below the normal high of 57. The average temperature this month has been almost one degree below normal."High pressure from central Canada will bring mainly dry but cool weather today into Friday," the National Weather Service says in its forecast [...]

The 29-year-old woman had no idea why her eye was swollen shut. She was in unbearable pain and could not stop tearing up. The Taiwanese woman said she was confused why what she thought was an infection kept getting worse, CTS News reported. But when the woman, identified by her surname He, received treatment at Fooyin University Hospital in Taiwan, doctors didn't find a bacterial infection. While looking at He's eyes through a microscope, Hung Chi-ting, the hospital's head [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Two men robbed a food market clerk at knifepoint here Saturday night, city police say.Commander Thomas Verdi said police were called to Manton Food Market at 315 Manton Ave. at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday.The clerk, 36, told police that one of the men walked behind the counter while pointing a knife and demanded money. The clerk handed over cash, and the suspect also grabbed an envelope from the shelf under the front counter with cash in it, police said. The other [...]

The state Department of Transportation has announced that it plans to implement a so-called "road diet" on a two-mile stretch of Elmwood Avenue, in Cranston and Warwick, starting Monday, April 15.Currently, the stretch allows for two lanes of traffic in each direction. It will be changed to one lane in each direction, with a center lane for left-hand turns.A DOT traffic analysis found that the changes would not cause delays on this stretch of Elmwood Avenue. The DOT says that [...]

WARWICK — T.F. Green Airport will soon offer non-stop flights between Rhode Island and both New Orleans and Las Vegas. In early September, Sun Country Airlines will expand its service to incorporate both routes, according a joint announcement made Monday morning by both the airline and the Rhode Island Airport Corp. Officials hailed the service as a key development for the Rhode Island economy, helping to lengthen the reach of local companies and [...]

PROVIDENCE -- City officials and local merchants have been working for months to repair the fountain that is the centerpiece of DePasquale Square in hopes of having it ready for dining al fresco in the upcoming season.On Monday morning, a setback came at the speed of a runaway car: A driver bashed into the fountain early Monday morning, then took off. [...]

NEWPORT — About 200 children at an early child care center in Building 1376 at Naval Station Newport were evacuated to an adjacent building Monday morning after a report of a chemical odor in the laundry room. The odor was later attributed to a common cleaning agent.Navy base officials sent out an announcement at 1:50 p.m. confirming that the air quality in the building on Bushnell Street was confirmed safe.Parents of the children ranging from infant through preschool [...]

BOSTON — Actress Felicity Huffman has agreed to plead guilty in the sweeping college admissions cheating scam that has ensnared wealthy parents and athletic coaches at some of the nation's most selective universities, federal authorities said Monday.The "Desperate Housewives" star and 12 other prominent parents will admit to charges in the scheme, which authorities say involved rigging standardized test scores and bribing coaches at such prestigious schools as Yale and [...]

PROVIDENCE — The nursing-home lobby is fighting back against the state's "mischaracterization" of them as scofflaws refusing to repay $60.8 million in advances that were, in most cases, subsequently double-paid.The nursing homes say they are victims of the state's painfully slow process for determining who qualifies for Medicaid, which leaves them caring for people who need nursing home care for months without payment — in some cases, more than a year. They place the [...]

PROVIDENCE — A jury on Monday convicted an East Providence man of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old man in 2016.A Superior Court jury found James Stevens, 31,  guilty in the stabbing death of Jasper Williams on an East Providence sidewalk, just days after Williams was released from prison.In reaching the verdict, [...]