Eric Tucker

September 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PROVIDENCE, R.I. AP - Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday.The settlement offer from Great White is the latest stemming from the February 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick.

By ERIC TUCKER

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September 05, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PROVIDENCE, R.I. AP - Several defendants being sued by relatives of the 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire have tentatively agreed to a $13.5 million settlement, one of the families' lawyers told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The settlements would be the first in what the plaintiffs hope will be several agreements with dozens of defendants in the lawsuits stemming from the Feb.

By Eric Tucker

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June 05, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PROVIDENCE, R.I. AP - More than a year after the state won a landmark lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead paint, the two sides remain at a gaping impasse over how the cleanup of contaminated properties in Rhode Island should be carried out.Some estimates have placed the potential cost in the billions of dollars.

By Eric Tucker

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May 05, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WARWICK, R.I. AP - A medical student jailed in Boston on suspicion of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist was charged Monday in an arrest warrant with pulling a gun on a stripper in a Rhode Island hotel.The warrant accuses Philip Markoff of assault and weapons violations. Authorities had previously said Markoff was the suspect in the April 16 robbery attempt at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick.

By ERIC TUCKER

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November 27, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PROVIDENCE, R.I. AP - Three former lead paint manufacturers asked a judge Monday to strike down a proposed state plan for the companies to pay about $2.4 billion to clean up thousands of properties contaminated with the toxic substance.The state last year won a landmark lawsuit against the companies - Sherwin-Williams Co.

By Eric Tucker

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March 18, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - A landmark jury verdict that could cost three former lead paint manufacturers billions of dollars is based on "old and well-established" law and should be upheld, lawyers for the state of Rhode Island told the state's highest court in legal papers filed Monday.The state says the companies' appeal of the verdict represents their latest attempt to avoid responsibility for the public health harms of lead paint.

By ERIC TUCKER

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June 14, 2012 | Law.com

A notorious Afghan drug trafficker was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for using proceeds from one of the world's largest heroin distribution operations to support Taliban insurgents who protected him from the police.

By Eric Tucker

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June 20, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PROVIDENCE, R.I. AP - The leader of the Narragansett Indian tribe was ordered Thursday to perform community service for brawling with state troopers during a police raid on a tribal smoke shop.Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas, who had been convicted along with two other tribe members, will have to educate school children on his tribe's history as part of his sentence of 150 hours of community service.

By ERIC TUCKER

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July 07, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By ERIC TUCKER

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December 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By ERIC TUCKER

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