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« June 19, 2008 | Today | June 23, 2008 » June 20, 2008Tonight: Lawmakers pull late-nighter; you don't have toYou can watch Rhode Island lawmakers make the hoped-for final push tonight as the legislative session draws to a close -- or you can check out projo.com's listings of other things to do. The General Assembly action will be showcased tonight on Capitol TV, Channel 15. Or check back with projo.com, which will be posting late reports from the legislative action. In the clubs tonight, there's a bit of everything. Black & White featuring Gary "Guitar" Gramolini plays rhythm and blues at H2O, 359 Thames St., Newport. 849-4466. piano bar 8:30 pm to 12:30 a.m. In Providence, the bands Poorly Drawn People, 19NINTY7, Brzowski, Outwrite and Jotsone play rock at AS220, 115 Empire St., Providence. Call 831-9327. 8 p.m. $6. All ages. There's the Rhode Island Songwriters Association: Mark Cutler, Joanne Lurgio and Nicole Berk, playing folk, acoustic rock and pop at Brooklyn Coffee Tea House, 209 Douglas Ave., Providence. 575-2284, www.brooklyncoffeeteahouse.com. 8 to 10 pm. No cover. Roomful of Blues play rhythm and blues at Waterplace Park in Providence, exit 22 off Route 95. Call 751-1177, www.providenceri.com/ArtCultureTourism. 7:30 pm. Free. Tomorrow, there's a WaterFire in Providence. The lighting's on at 8:24 p.m. -- sunset. Posted by Mike McKinney at 7:00 PM | Comment Records may fall in Newport Bermuda Race / Photo
NEWPORT – Among the 200 boats on the starting line for the Newport Bermuda Race today, three of them – The Monster, Rambler and Speedboat – could set a new record, even though forecasters are calling for light air. The brand-new 100-footer, Speedboat, is the favorite to win line honors in Bermuda, says Ken Read, skipper of il Mostro, The Monster, a Volvo 70 built for Puma Ocean Racing to compete in the Volvo Ocean Race. “Speedboat is a Volvo 70 on steroids,” said Read. The new maxi was designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian. It is owned by Alex Jackson and skippered by Mike Sanderson. Its professional crew is loaded with Teamorigin's America’s Cup Team with navigator Stan Honey. Speedboat and The Monster will attempt attempt to the unofficial open-class record set by George David’s Reichel Pugh 90-foot Rambler will be going after the traditional record of 53 hours, 39 minutes, 22 seconds set by Roy Disney in 2002 on Pyewacket. Final entries have dwindled from 218 to 198 entries, according to race spokesman Talbot Wilson. "One boat sank on delivery, another was t-boned on its mooring, one had an electrical fire and other crews have dropped out for business or personal reasons," he said. "Yet this is still the second largest fleet in the 102-year history of the race. The special, centennial race in 2006 had 263 starters and the previous record was 182. Organizers from the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club are positive about the final turnout." -- Journal sports writer Tom Meade Posted by Jack Perry at 6:45 PM | Comment R.I. gets $742,875 for emergency needs, ID protectionRhode Island will get $742,875 in federal money that U.S. Sen Jack Reed said will improve emergency response communications and help protect people from identity theft. The Rhode Island Democrat's office announced late today $242,000 of that will be awarded through a grant program to help Rhode Island’s emergency communications by doing planning, training and other preparedness exercises. The other $500,000 will come via the 2008 REAL ID Demonstration Grant Program to standardize drivers’ licenses. "This money will help train and equip emergency management officials and first responders to protect the public and respond to any threats or disasters that may strike,” Reed said in a statement of the emergency communications preparedness money. Of the ID grant, he said: “This federal grant will also help Rhode Island comply with new federal guidelines for state-issued driver’s licenses to help prevent fraud and identity theft.” The money comes through the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney Posted by Mike McKinney at 6:19 PM | Comment Photo: A fern plus free lesson equals work of art
Posted by Andrea Panciera at 6:14 PM | Comment Tape: Entwistle repeatedly denied killing wife, babyWOBURN, Mass. -- A British man repeatedly denied killing his wife and baby in a taped interview with police played today for jurors at his double murder trial. Neil Entwistle said, "No, no, no" when state police Sgt. Robert Manning asked him if he had anything to do with the deaths of his wife, Rachel, and their 9-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose. Entwistle sighed heavily and stammered when pressed by Manning about whether he could have done anything "out of character" on the day his wife and daughter were killed. "God, no. No," he said. "Of course, no, I couldn't do that. Why would I do that?" Prosecutors say Entwistle, 29, fatally shot his wife and daughter in their Hopkinton, Mass., home on Jan. 2006, after becoming despondent over mounting debt and dissatisfied with his sex life. Entwistle denies killing his wife and daughter, and claims he returned home from a two-hour shopping trip to find them dead in a bed in the master bedroom. On the recording, Entwistle sounded flustered as he tried to explain why he did not call police or seek medical help for his wife and daughter before flying back to England the day after the killings. "Looking back on it, I don't know why I did things in the way that I did," he said. -- The Associated Press At another point, after being asked again by Manning why he left, he apologized for not calling the police. "I just feel that it wasn't the right thing to do, was it?" he said. Manning said he recorded the nearly 2-hour telephone conversation when he called Entwistle at his parents' home in Worksop, England, on Jan. 23, 2006, the day after the police found the bodies. Entwistle told Manning he left his wife and daughter cuddled together in bed at 9 a.m. to go shopping for computer supplies. He said he returned two hours later and found his wife and daughter cuddled in bed together, as he had left them. Entwistle's voice cracked and he sniffled as he was fighting back tears when he described finding the bodies. "When I walked in, I couldn't see Lilly. I could only see Rachel, and she just looked asleep," he said. "The first thing I noticed was just her color, she was kind of pale, and then as I got closer, I could see the blood. ... I pulled the covers back and that's when I saw Lilly. Lilly was such a mess." Entwistle told Manning that was so distraught after finding his wife and daughter that he went to the kitchen to find a knife to kill himself, but he couldn't go through with it because he knew "how much it was going to hurt." He said he then drove to the home of Rachel's mother and stepfather in Carver to find a gun to kill himself, but was unable to get into the house. He eventually ended up at Logan International Airport in Boston, where he said he wandered around the terminals, left, then returned again. He said he decided to fly home to England to be with his parents. "I got to the point where I just needed to be with someone," said Entwistle, who described his condition as "trancelike." The tape was played on the eleventh day of testimony in the trial. Prosecutors are expected to rest their case on Monday. During the conversation, Manning alternated between expressing concern about Entwistle and treating him like a suspect. At one point, he asked Entwistle if he was depressed or under a doctor's care. Entwistle said his parents were taking care of him. "I haven't even cried yet," he said. "You haven't even cried?" asked Manning. "No, not properly," he said. "I think it's because I'm here. It almost doesn't seem real. It's a just a void." Prosecutors have depicted Entwistle as a man who was obsessed with sex and searching the Internet for ways to meet women. On Thursday, a computer specialist showed the jury a profile Entwistle posted on a Web site called "AdultFriendFinder.com" in which he said he wanted to meet "American women of all ages" for sex. Manning asked Entwistle if he and his wife had any marital problems or had argued near the time of the killings. "No, nothing," he said. "It was just a normal day." Posted by Mike McKinney at 6:08 PM | Comment 2 picked to fill Traffic Tribunal magistrate vacanciesPROVIDENCE -- R. David Cruise and Alan R. Goulart have been picked to fill two magistrate vacancies on the state Traffic Tribunal. Both are for 10-year terms. They were among 5 finalists chosen June 11 by the Magistrate Selection Committee and sent to state Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, who announced the selections today. Cruise, 51, of Cumberland is chief of staff to state Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano. Goulart, 48, of North Kingstown is criminal division chief of the state Attorney General's Office. The appointments will go to the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation. "Any of the five candidates whose names were forwarded to me could well serve our citizens as magistrates on the Traffic Tribunal," Williams said in the statement. "In David Cruise, we have an individual whose years of public service in both Rhode Island and in Washington have been outstanding. From the General Assembly, to the Governor's Office, to the U.S. Department of Commerce, he has consistently proven himself as a quick study, a conscientious, tireless worker who has served the public well," Williams said. Williams called Goulart "an individual with eminent qualifications gained during his 17 years of prosecuting cases in the Attorney General's Office, culminating most recently as the chief of the criminal division. Prior to his service with the Attorney General's Office, Mr. Goulart served three years as a judge advocate general in the U.S. Navy." The chief justice last year received authority from the legislature to appoint Traffic Tribunal magistrates. A three-member Magistrate Selection Committee, whose chairman was Traffic Tribunal Associate Judge Edward C. Parker, interviewed five candidates, including Cruise and Goulart, on June 5 and solicited written public comment. The committee considered, but did not re-interview, four candidates who had applied for chief magsitrate last fall. Posted by Mike McKinney at 5:30 PM | Comment Assembly passes bill to speed public records releasePROVIDENCE -- A long night still ahead, the House late today passed a Senate-approved bill to quicken release of public records, among them police reports, in Rhode Island. The vote was 49 to 9, with opposition coming from Republicans in the Democrat-dominated House, as lawmakers grind through a host of bills on their way to adjourning the year's regular legislative session. The proposal would change Rhode Island’s Open Records Law, cutting to 7 days from 10 the amount of time a member of the public must wait to receive requested public records. The legislation also requires the release of basic arrest information within 24 hours. -- With reports from Cynthia Needham, Journal State House Bureau Posted by Mike McKinney at 5:29 PM | Comment Cox Communications raising cable TV rates in R.I.WEST WARWICK -- Cox Communications is raising cable television rates in Rhode Island, blaming rising energy costs. Customers with the least expensive basic services or digital service will generally take the biggest hit. Cox says its standard cable service rate will rise 7 percent in August, to $48.99 per month. The price of limited basic service is rising as much as 26 percent, to $12.99, in communities like Cranston and Johnston. In Providence, the increase is 15 percent. Fees for digital service will rise 16 to 20 percent, depending on the package. The company isn't raising rates on packages that bundle cable with Internet or phone services. Cox says high energy prices have pushed costs higher, and it can't afford to absorb the increases. It says digital prices are going up because of rising programming costs. -- The Associated Press Posted by Mike McKinney at 5:15 PM | Comment Amtrak project forces cuts in Block Island Ferry runsDelays in an Amtrak railroad bridge construction project in New London have spilled over to service on the Block Island ferry, which has been forced to cancel some of its runs this Saturday through Tuesday. The delay in work on the Thames River Bridge has blocked one of the ferries, Anna C, from leaving the company's maintenance shipyard and forced cutbacks in ferry runs. The 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. ferries orginally scheduled to depart Point Judith on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are canceled. The 11:30 a.m. ferries from Block Island scheduled to depart Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are canceled as is the 5 p.m. from Block Island on Saturday and Sunday, and the 4:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. People with reservations to take vehicles on any of those departures can call (866) 783-7996, Ext. 3, to reschedule. People with passenger-only reservations will be able to use their tickets on any other scheduled departure on the same day. There are no other cancellations during this time period. The high-speed ferry schedule has not been affected. Beginning tomorrow, the high-speed ferry leaves daily from Point Judith at 7:15 a.m., 9 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1p, 4:35 p.m., and 6:45 p.m., and leave from Block Island at 8:05 a.m., 10:05 a.m., 12:05 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. For more details on both ferry schedules and services, go to its Web site. The Amtrak contruction project is now scheduled from Tuesday, June 24, to Friday, June 27. For more information and the impact on train service, which will be disrupted, go to amtrak.com. or call 1-800-USA-RAIL.
Posted by Brandie Jefferson at 5:14 PM | Comment Health Department reopens 3 beaches to swimmingThe state Department of Health today reopened to swimmers the Atlantic Beach Club in Middletown, Saunderstown Yacht Club in North Kingstown and Warren Town Beach. Water sample results showed bacteria within acceptable limits. Remaining closed due to high bacteria levels are Gorton Pond, in Warwick, and Camp Grosvenor, in North Kingstown. For updates about swimming at Rhode Island beaches, go to www.health.ri.gov or for recorded information call (401) 222-2751. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney Posted by Mike McKinney at 4:52 PM | Comment Trooper Doyle back at work, has already made an arrest
Journal photo / Mary Murphy Trooper Brendan Doyle during an interview at State Police Headquarters earlier this week. Almost a year after suffering a nearly fatal head injury, Rhode Island State Trooper Brendan Doyle is back on the job -- and he's already made his first arrest. Doyle returned to work this morning and at about 9:20 a.m., he'd pulled over a vehicle over on Hartford Avene, Providence, and discovered the driver had a court warrant, according to Maj. Steven O'Donnell. "It's great to have him back," O'Donnell said. Doyle overcame great odds to return to the state police. He wasn't expected to survive the severe brain injury he suffered last summer. On June 16, 2007, Doyle was off-duty and out with friends in downtown Providence when he attempted to stop an alleged reckless driver. The driver, a former corrections officer named James Proulx, punched Doyle in the face, according to the police. The trooper fell backward and hit his head on the pavement. The police say Proulx sped off and boasted about the beating in a call to an ex-girlfriend. Proulx is out on bail awaiting trial on felony assault and reckless-driving charges. Doyle, who had been a trooper for three years when he was injured, took some time to conduct interview with local television stations this afternoon, but now it's back to the road for the trooper, O'Donnell says. Read more about Doyle and his recovery. Posted by Jack Perry at 1:54 PM | Comment Jury in Entwistle murder trial hears tapeWOBURN, Mass. -- Jurors in the trial of a British man accused of killing his wife and baby daughter have listened to a tape recording of him saying he had "not done the right thing" by flying home to England without calling police. Neil Entwistle is accused of fatally shooting his wife, Rachel, and their 9-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose, in their Hopkinton home in January 2006. Today, prosecutors played a 2-hour recording of a telephone interview Entwistle had with a state trooper from England. Entwistle cried as he told the trooper that he discovered the bodies of his wife and daughter, fatally shot in bed together, after returning home from doing errands. He said he should have called police, but "just couldn't get it clear" in his head. Prosecutors say Entwistle flew to England the following day. -- The Associated Press Posted by Mike McKinney at 1:33 PM | Comment RIPTA begins summer bus schedule tomorrowThe Rhode Island Public Transit Authority has released its annual summer schedule, which will take effect tomorrow. First the good news for the sun seekers: Daily busses to First and Second Beaches in Newport begin on Route 61; daily service to Fort Adams Park in Newport begins on Route 62; and Route 67 will be extended to the Cliff Walk in Newport. Several routes are being canceled for the season, however, such as the 6:05 a.m. Saturday outbound trip at 50 Douglas Ave. and the 77 Benefit/Broadway 7:19 a.m. inbound on Sunday. Still to come -- "Beach Bus" 7-day-a-week express buses from the following points will run from July 1 to Aug. 11: Woonsocket Depot, Cranston City Hall, Central Falls (400 Dexter Street), Pawtucket Transit Center and North Providence (Tim Horton's) run to South County Beaches. Fare is the regular bus fare. Please see Rte. #66 (URI/Galilee) schedule for details. To see a complete list of discontinued, rescheduled or renamed routes, see RIPTA’s Web site or call 401-781-9400 Click below to see the lines that will be affected by schedule changes starting tomorrow. 1 Eddy/Gaspee Posted by Brandie Jefferson at 12:49 PM | Comment Three accused of tax fraudThree Rhode Islanders face tax fraud conspiracy charges after allegedly using multiple bank accounts, fake business names and writing letters to the IRS to avoid paying taxes. According to a statement released today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Bruce Lapierre, 47, of Pascoag, Albert Martin, 58, and his wife Lorraine Martin, 59, both of Woonsocket, were arrested yesterday. Lapierre and Lorraine Martin were arraigned and pleaded not guilty. Albert Martin is scheduled to be arraigned June 26 after he said he did not understand the charges. According to the indictment, which was sealed until the arrests yesterday, Lapierre and Albert Martin hid earnings from their Woonsocket-based machine shop, Classic Machine, between 2004 and 2007. The indictment claims that the two used Lorraine Martin’s personal account, instead of a business account, to deposit receipts and that they used an anonymous “private” account to conceal income. The three each face one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of tax evasion for 2002 and 2003. All three were released on bond. The defendants are also accused of using various business names –– Banner Technologies, Circle Machine, Preferred Enterprises and Royal Enterprises –– to conduct business. And Bruce Lapierre is accused of trying to thwart the IRS by sending “false and frivolous letters to the IRS claiming he was not required to file returns or pay taxes,” according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Posted by Brandie Jefferson at 12:04 PM | Comment Portsmouth motel murder plotter's conviction upheldPROVIDENCE -- The state Supreme Court today upheld the murder conviction of Tajendra Patel, who got two consecutive life sentences after a jury found him guilty of hiring a man to kill the manager of a Portsmouth motel. Authorities believe Tajendra Patel blamed the manager of Founder's Brook Motel and Suites, Sanjeev Patel -- his brother-in-law -- for breaking up his marriage. The motel owner's son, Jay Patel testified at trial that he saw his father gunned down, that his father pleaded with the man, “Please, don’t do that, sir. Please don’t do that.” He was the only witness who saw the murder. Sanjeev Patel’s wife, Prena, testified she could hear her husband pleading with the customer and when she entered the office after hearing the shots, she saw her husband covered with blood. Patel's appeal to the state's highest court argued the judge erred when she admitted an in-court identification of defendant "because the identification procedure was unnecessarily suggestive and because the identification lacked independent reliability," the court's opinion says. The appeal also argued that the judge also erred in admitting a 911 call that was "irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial." Among its conclusions, the Supreme Court found "no clear error" in allowing the 911 call recording to be part of the trial. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with Journal archival reports The man who was hired, Roger Graham, an immigrant from Barbados who lived illegally in New York City, was convicted of shooting and killing Sanjeev Patel at the motel on New Year's Day 2002. Tajendra Patel was convicted in a separate trial in 2003 of first-degree murder and conspiring with Graham. Tajendra Patel has the possibility of parole. The Journal reported that a prosecutor said Superior Court Judge Melanie Wilk Thunberg was barred from considering life without parole in sentencing because of different evidence in the case that didn't meet the legal standard for such a ruling. Posted by Mike McKinney at 12:03 PM | Comment Update: Barrington teen put on home confinementPROVIDENCE -- A Barrington teenager accused in the boating death of a fellow teen last summer can be released from the Adult Correctional Institutions and await trial for second-degree murder at home, a special magistrate ruled today. Ryan Greenberg, 18, was sent to the ACI in April after he violated the terms of his bail, but this morning Special Magistrate Joseph A. Keough ruled that Greenberg can go home under a strict set of conditions with the posting of $10,000 cash bail. He'll be released tomorrow. Greenberg is accused of killing 17-year-old Patrick Murphy in a boating incident that involved alcohol last summer. He violated the terms of his bail when the police found him and seven other underage Barrington residents at a local pond with beer and liquor on April 19. Under the terms set by Keough, Greenberg is only allowed to leave his house for medical, legal, educational or religious purposes. He has a strict 8 p.m. curfew under any condition. Greenberg, wearing khakis, a white shirt and blue blazer, spoke only briefly during the short court session. He told Keough he understood the terms. Keough told him he hoped Greenberg's time at the ACI was an eye-opening experience. Although his attorney, William Devereaux, indicated that Greenberg's parents would be able to post the bail, Greenberg did not walk out of Superior Court a free man. He was taken to the ACI to be fitted for an electronic bracelet. -- With reports from C. Eugene Emery Jr. Greenberg's case is in a legal limbo because Greenberg is one of the "gap kids," arrested when state law said that 17-year-olds should be tried as adults. The state has not figured out what to do with all the teens who were arrested before the state legislature put the age limit back to 18, so there’s been no progress toward trying the Barrington youth. The state Supreme Court is weighing arguments in the matter. Posted by Jack Perry at 11:59 AM | Comment Reports: Teen girls made pact to get pregnantGLOUCESTER, Mass. -- A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said. Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are about four pregnancies a year at the school. Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none older than 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and "seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were." Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers "is a 24-year-old homeless guy," Sullivan told the magazine. -- The Associated Press Superintendent Christopher Farmer confirmed the deal to WBZ-TV, saying the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant." He said the girls are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life." Christen Callahan, a former Gloucester High School student who had a child when she was 15, said on NBC's "Today" show that some of the girls would ask her about her own pregnancy. "They would say stuff like, oh, I think my parents would be fine with it and they would help me, stuff like that," Callahan said. But she said she had no firsthand knowledge of a pact between the girls to get pregnant. "They were just kind of like curious about it, they never actually came out and said it," Callahan said. The first reports of the students' apparent plan to get pregnant were in the Gloucester Daily Times in March, when Sullivan said students were reporting that the girls were getting pregnant on purpose. The rash of pregnancies has shaken the seaside city about 30 miles north of Boston. Last month, two officials at the high school health center resigned to protest the resistance from the local hospital to the confidential distribution of contraceptives. The hospital administers the state money that funds the clinic. Posted by Jack Perry at 11:23 AM | Comment Coming tonight: HSGameTime All-State boys volleyballTonight at 6, we continue our coverage of spring All-States by unveiling the 2008 Providence Journal HSGameTime All-State boys volleyball team. You can find the first-team and second-team All-State listings as well as All-Division and All-Tournament teams, at HSGameTime. Right now, you can get watch and listen to a multimedia interview with All-State James Boyce, from the Division I champion East Providence team. Here is the online schedule for spring All-States. The new teams will be announced at 6 p.m. each day. Online now: Boys tennis, golf Posted by Mike McDermott at 11:11 AM | Comment Woman arraigned in stabbing death of another woman
WEST WARWICK -- A West Warwick woman pleaded innocent to murder in the stabbing of another woman in March in West Warwick. Abimbola O. Johnson was ordered held without bail following her arraignment this morning in Kent County Superior Court. She was indicted by a grand jury June 4 for one count of murder, accused of fatally stabbing Natasha Gonsalves. Both were 18 at the time. The police have said that on the night of March 20, Gonsalves and two friends followed Johnson to Gonsalves’ 114 Pepin St. home. Johnson and one of Gonsalves’ friends argued, when the police said Johnson went inside and returned with a kitchen knife. During the argument, Johnson pulled the knife from her waistband and stabbed Gonsalves, the police said. Officers arrived to find Gonsalves lying on the ground as neighbors tried to help her. She was pronounced dead at Kent Hospital, in Warwick. A status conference was scheduled for July 14, and a pretrial conference was scheduled for Aug. 5. -- Journal staff writer Talia Buford Posted by Jack Perry at 10:32 AM | Comment Curt Schilling to have surgery, career in doubtBOSTON (AP) - Curt Schilling says he's out for the season, and his career may be over. The Red Sox right-hander said Friday morning he will undergo surgery next week on his injured shoulder. When asked on the WEEI "Dennis and Callahan Show" whether that will end his season, he said "Yes." "My season is over and there is a pretty decent chance I have thrown my last pitch forever," he said. Schilling's physician, Dr. Craig Morgan, confirmed to The Associated Press the surgery would be at his office in Wilmington, Del., on Monday afternoon. "If you use a scale of 1-10 and 10 is pitching in the big leagues, I'm at about 3 right now," Schilling said. He added: "I'm going in to make it not hurt anymore." Early in spring training, Schilling's course of treatment became a sort of melodrama. Red Sox team physician Dr. Thomas Gill recommended rehab for a tendon injury. Schilling sought a second opinion Morgan, who operated on the right shoulder in 1995 and 1999. Morgan felt strongly that surgery was best and that rehabilitation would fail - and potentially end Schilling's career. Morgan said Friday that Schilling's shoulder is stronger than it was in spring training when he originally recommended surgery. But the original problem with the tendon persists. He said Schilling could throw off flat ground, but that not from the mound. The 41-year-old Schilling, who's been out since the start of spring training, underwent an MRI Tuesday and after conferring with Morgan and Gill, a decision was made to do the surgery. "We had a rough couple of weeks, so a lot of stuff happened over the last couple of days," Schilling said. "I met with Dr. Morgan ... and Dr. Gill. It got to a point we had to make some decisions." A team spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment. Posted by Mike McDermott at 10:11 AM | Comment Budget may be signed todayThe governor said yesterday that he’s likely today to sign the 2009 budget, which has been approved by the House and the Senate. The Senate voted yesterday to approve a $6.9 million budget for the 2009 fiscal year, which begins July 1. The House voted last night. "I look forward to signing this budget plan into law as early as Friday,” Governor Carcieri said yesterday in a statement. Some of the notable highlights of the approved budget: - No increase in income, sales, capital gains or corporate taxes. Taxes on medical and dental premiums increased. - Closes the estimated deficit of $422 million, mostly through spending cuts. Largest include $67 million in Medicaid spending; $90 million in cuts to state work force. - $12.5 million cut in non-school aid. Slight increase for school aid. Find out what other spending plans were approved and rejected in today's Journal. Posted by Brandie Jefferson at 8:42 AM | Comment Today in history: Lizzie Borden found innocentOn this day in 1893, a jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. Read more from today in history. Posted by Jack Perry at 7:02 AM | Comment It's official -- almost -- summer ish ereSummer arrives today, at 7:59 p.m., when we reach the summer solstice, The spot in the Earth's orbit when the sun appears at its northernmost position in the sky. Although we'll only have 25 minutes of sunlight left in the day. So what does that mean for the weather? Not much. Today we have more of the same warnings that we've heard most of the week from the National Weather Service: A slight chance of rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Rain aside, we'll have cloudy skies, a high temperature near 77 degrees and south winds between 10 and 13 mph. Tonight, we may see more rain through the night, when the temperature hits about 60 degrees. But check this out: tomorrow, Saturday, the sun makes its return, high in the sky, with temperatures reaching 83 degrees and west winds between 7 and 11 mph. Tomorrow night there's another slight chance of rain and storms, with temperatures in the mid 60s and mild south winds. Back to gloom Sunday, with a good chance of rain and storms in the late morning. Also, expect strong south winds, gusting upwards of 25 mph. Temperatures should hit the high 70s with cloudy skies. It's the same story Sunday night, with temperatures int he mid 60s, and a pretty high chance rain and maybe thunderstorms. And Monday sounds like today, with a chance of rain and temperatures in the high 70s. Check for changes in the forecast during the weekend on projo.com's weather page. Posted by Brandie Jefferson at 7:01 AM | Comment Today's front page: A state trooper's amazing recoveryToday's front page features the story of Trooper Brendan Doyle's recovery from a severe head injury to return to work with the Rhode Island State Police. |
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