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The Coast Guard Auxillary supports the Coast Guard by helping with search-and-rescue missions, boating safety courses and vessel inspections. This week they are devoting several mornings to the Sea Cadets enrolled in a federally financed youth development program operated through the Navy.Boy Scout volunteer facing charges
HOPKINTON -- A Warwick father volunteering at Camp Yawgoog with his son's troop was arrested Monday on charges that he showed pornographic videos on his laptop and gave alcohol and cigarettes to teens at the Boy Scout camp.
Lawyers question inmate's story
PROVIDENCE -- Defense lawyers spent more than five hours yesterday trying to poke holes in the testimony of Jose Gonzalez, a former inmate who has accused two guards at the Adult Correctional Institutions of physically and verbally assaulting him two years ago.
Doctor describes Narragansett tribe members ankle injury
PROVIDENCE -- An orthopedic surgeon told jurors yesterday that the Narragansett Indian whose ankle was broken during a state police raid on a tribal smoke shop suffered some permanent loss of motion from the injury.
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Special Reports
The new state budget
Slowly, Rhode Island budget cuts begin to take hold
Budget graphic: A snapshot of spending cuts
Your turn
What do you think of this year's budget?
Will this year's General Assembly action influence your vote for your legislator in November?
Labor's voice loud at State House
Most days on Smith Hill, union lobbyists far outnumber those from other interest groups.
Rhode Island School of Design's rock star
John Maeda, RISD's new president, has spent the past few weeks introducing himself -- and he's brought some high-tech upgrades to getting acquainted.
Video: John Maeda talks about his philosophy and ideas for RISD
Extras: Read John Maeda’s blog || See Maeda’s online art gallery
Your turn: What can be done to keep young people out of gangs?
Multimedia
The luck of the draw: Parents learn whether their children win spots at charter schools
Q&A: What, why and where are these schools?
Gallery: Students at, and who want to be at, charter schools
Your turn: Do you think Rhode Island needs more charter schools?
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Continuing Reports
Local, state government employs 1 in 6 workers in R.I.
Rhode Islanders paid their city and town employees more than $1.6 billion in 2006, a Providence Journal analysis of municipal employee records shows.
Chart: Municipal employees figures, town by town
Chart: What Rhode Island's cities' and towns' payrolls cost
Public Payroll: The Journal's ongoing analysis of Rhode Island's state and municipal employee costs
The Immigration Debate
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