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Patrick Kennedy retired from Congress in January, but on a recent evening in a veteran's hall here, he sounded like he was still running for office as he spoke about the plight of troops traumatized by war.
Patrick Kennedy, a former Democratic congressman from Rhode Island and son of the late Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, said Tuesday that his departure from Congress has given him a chance to start building private relationships and taken him "off the beaten path" in a life that has largely been led in the spotlight.
The onetime Rhode Island Democratic candidate for governor who said President Barack Obama could "shove it" shortly before November's election has a new career at an Atlanta-based finance firm.
With gas prices above $4 in some states, Americans are canceling spring break plans and rethinking summer vacation, and some tourist destinations are offering gas vouchers of as much as $50 to talk people out of giving up and staying home.
Former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci is the ultimate political phoenix: a rising star in the national Republican Party cast out of the mayor's office twice — once amid a felony conviction and years later a federal corruption probe — only to emerge from years in prison and return to prominence as a radio talk show host each time.
Reality TV star Richard Hatch was ordered back to prison Friday to serve a nine-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million he won on the first season of the hit CBS show "Survivor."
Brown University is celebrating the opening of a new $40 million arts building. It will be a venue for performances and art exhibits, as well as classroom space for subjects as varied as robotics and music.
Federal regulators are investigating Rhode Island's bond offerings, adding it to the list of state and municipal governments to come under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The founder of the celebrated Newport jazz and folk festivals is taking them nonprofit in an effort to make sure the events he's been producing for six decades live on after he is gone.
A team of divers say they've discovered the remains of the USS Revenge, a ship commanded by U.S. Navy hero Oliver Hazard Perry and wrecked off Rhode Island in 1811.
Angel Taveras has been publicly sworn in as mayor of Providence, becoming the first Hispanic mayor of Rhode Island's capital city.
Cash-strapped states are cutting back on a program that provides free medicine to people with HIV, leaving thousands of patients to wonder where their drugs will come from and stirring fears of a return to the days when an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death.
Reality TV star Richard Hatch is accused of violating probation on his tax evasion sentence, which he received for failing to pay taxes on his $1 million prize from the first season of "Survivor."
Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline (sis-uh-LEE'-nee) has become the fourth openly gay member of Congress, winning the House seat vacated by retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy.
Rhode Island independent candidate for governor Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'-fee) is running a TV ad featuring President Barack Obama, the day after rival Democrat Frank Caprio said Obama could "shove it" for not endorsing him.
The candidates for Rhode Island governor are meeting in the second-to-last televised debate before Tuesday's election, and it'll be a bit more crowded on stage than usual.
Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee has released a new ad in his independent bid for governor that evokes memories of his father, a longtime and beloved U.S. senator, who he says taught him to "tell the truth and trust the people."
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee's independent campaign for Rhode Island governor says it owes $8 in federal income taxes for 2009.
President Barack Obama will visit Rhode Island to raise money for Democratic congressional candidate David Cicilline (sis-uh-LEE'-nee) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
A Chinese company thought to have once been responsible for most of the illegal human growth hormone smuggled from overseas into the United States pleaded guilty along with its CEO Wednesday to illegally selling the drug and agreed to pay $7.5 million.
Rhode Island Democratic candidate for governor Frank Caprio on Friday criticized his independent rival Lincoln Chafee over Chafee's acknowledgment that his old Senate campaign committee of $18,400 in back taxes and fees due to a misunderstanding of tax regulations by his campaign treasurers.
Laure Rondeau, an 82-year-old Catholic, supports Providence Mayor David Cicilline for Congress because he wants to get the troops out of Afghanistan and says Washington is losing sight of what's happening to regular people.
A top Rhode Island economic official said Thursday he expects to close by mid-September on a controversial $75 million state loan guarantee for the video game company of former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.
A Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate has questioned one of the most memorable moments in New England sports history as he criticized a $75 million state loan guarantee given to a video game company owned by former Boston Red Sox star Curt Schilling.
There are no campaign signs, no crowds around former Sen. Lincoln Chafee. He's standing, sometimes alone, as baseball fans stream toward the stadium before a Pawtucket Red Sox game.
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