Governor Dan McKee is defending his decision to use a contractor to conduct emergency repairs to the Washington Bridge that is presently under state indictment.
Dennis Ferreira, the project supervisor for Barletta Heavey Machine on the construction of the $410 million 6/10 project, appeared before Magistrate John McBurney in Providence Superior Court on Tuesday morning to plea to multiple state charges.
In 1952 Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential campaign train stopped in at the Pawtucket/Central Falls railroad station in this once important urban nexus. Within a decade, the station closed, and by 1981 rail service to the dying towns was discontinued altoge
Last week, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced the indictment of Barletta Heavy Machine and one of its former top staffers for their role in illegally dumping material in the Olneyville neighborhood in Providence in the summer of 2020 as