Providence Journal

An American flag flies every day over the stoop and the wrought iron balustrade of a brownstone on Manhattan's East 20th Street, just off Broadway. Though it looks old, the...

Remember the Barbie who said math was tough? She's gotten over that phobia-and breezed through med school. The new Barbie-Dr. Barbie, with blond bouffant, white coat and heels-will appear in...

Oh what a difference $120 million makes. Because "Wayne's World" was such a surprise hit, there have been lots of changes in the script for "Wayne's World 2" and in...

Trying to interview Robin Williams is like trying to get a straight sentence out of the Genie in "Aladdin," that comical character whose leap of thought might have him playing...

Some teachers are energetic, conscientious and demanding of their students. Then there's Rafe Esquith. The teacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Los Angeles, who spoke at a teachers union...

Two researchers at the University of Rhode Island say that history dealt a low blow to Max Schmeling, the German boxer who knocked out American idol Joe Louis in 1936...

From a beach chair on his front lawn, Norman Lincoln, 54, a retired military man, has launched a war against Rhode Island and its plans to turn his home into...

Kara Kathleen Hewes could be a typical college-bound teenager from America's heartland-a blond in jean shorts waiting for her boyfriend to steal her away in a black convertible. But the...

Dee Rowe met Jim Valvano long before the money and the success, the celebrity and the excess, long before Jimmy V became a lounge act, long before he became a...

This is a story of human hearts at Christmas-hearts broken, hearts mended, even a heart given as the ultimate gift. In rural Exeter, R.I., a struggling mother and father kept...