NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sept. 17 -- The Naval War College issued the following news: U.S. Naval War College hosted a conference Sept. 11-13 focused on military veterans, gathering more than 40 scholars to examine the experience of war, homecoming and what it has meant to be a veteran in the United States and elsewhere. The conference, called "Veterans: Enduring, Surviving and Remembering War," was organized by assistant professor J. Ross Dancy, who teaches in the Naval War College's John B. Hat  more

CONCORD, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The fourth meeting of the Gould Island Restoration Advisory Board is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the Town of Jamestown Council Chambers located at 93 Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, RI. The meeting is open to the public. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, working with loca  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, Aaron L. Weisman, issued the following news release: The owners of two trucking companies that hauled tons of refuse and scrap metal through Rhode Island and Massachusetts were each sentenced today to 12 months probation and fined $1,250 for directing employees to falsify federally mandated United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports (DVIR) and allow trucks in need   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, Aaron L. Weisman, issued the following news release: A Rhode Island couple has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges they participated in a scheme that lasted more than twenty years to defraud the United States Government of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federally-funded benefits. Lens Chappell, a/k/a Carter Jefferson, 71, and his wife, Mulin Alexandre, a/k/a Kesa Pittman and later Kesa Jeffers  more

WARWICK, Rhode Island, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency - Rhode Island Field Office issued the following news release: Agricultural producers affected by natural disasters in 2018 and 2019, can apply through the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+). Sign-up for this U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program begins Sept. 11. "There is no doubt that extreme weather has greatly impacted Rhode Island's agricultural producers over the last se  more