Michelle Smith

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Whistle-blower suit claimed Navy kickbacks in 2006

Michelle Smith · February 28, 2013 5:08 pm

Club fire charity to Great White singer: No thanks

Michelle Smith · January 18, 2013 5:46 pm

Google forfeiture cash to boost 2 RI pension funds

Michelle Smith · January 11, 2013 11:05 pm

In this Nov. 13, 2012 photo provided by David Bazarsky, a set of 18th century Torah finial bells are seen on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. A disagreement over the ownership of the bells has prompted lawsuits between leaders of the nation's first Jewish congregation and the nation's oldest synagogue. The dispute started after leaders of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., agreed to sell the bells for $7.4 million to Bostonâs Museum of Fine Arts so they can set up an endowment to care for the synagogue. (AP Photo/David Bazarsky)

Rift between oldest synagogue, Jewish congregation

Michelle Smith · December 31, 2012 10:18 pm

FILE - In this July 19, 2011 file photo, United Arab Emirates Col. Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-Ali enters Federal Court in Providence, R.I. Al-Ali was ordered Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, to pay $1.2 million to former domestic worker Elizabeth Ballesteros, who accused him of imprisoning her and forcing her to work long hours for little pay. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

UAE officer ordered to pay $1.2M to former worker

Michelle Smith · December 27, 2012 8:06 pm

In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 photo, McKenna Pope,13, poses for The Associated Press in her home in Garfield, N.J. Hasbro has announced it has been developing an Easy-Bake Oven in the gender-neutral colors of black and silver. It made the announcement after meeting with Pope, whose online petition asking the company to make one attractive to all kids gathered tens of thousands of signatures. Hasbro says it knows both boys and girls have fun playing with the Easy-Bake. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Parents struggle to find gender-neutral toys

Michelle Smith · December 22, 2012 1:15 am

FILE - This Sept. 8, 2011 file photo shows Hasbro's newest version of their famous "Easy Bake Oven" in Pawtucket, R.I. Hasbro says it will soon reveal a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven after meeting with a New Jersey girl who started a campaign calling on the toy maker to make one that appeals to all kids. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

APNewsBreak: Unisex Easy-Bake oven on the way

Michelle Smith · December 17, 2012 5:00 am

After watching TV news reports of the school shooting in Connecticut, Alicia Combo tightly hugs her son Morgan Askins at the close of school, Dec. 14, 2012, at Garfield Elementary in Spokane, Wash. A man killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Friday inside the elementary school where she taught, massacring 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in fear to the sound of gunshots reverberating through the building and screams echoing over the intercom. (AP Photo/Spokesman Review, Dan Pelle)

How to talk to your kids about Conn. mass shooting

Michelle Smith · December 15, 2012 10:39 pm

FILE - This Sept. 8, 2011 file photo shows Hasbro's newest version of their famous "Easy Bake Oven" in Pawtucket, R.I. An eighth-grade girl from Garfield, N.J., has started an online petition asking Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to make the toy ovens in gender-neutral colors and feature boys on the package after she went to buy one for her little brother and discovered that it comes only in girly pink and purple, with girls and only girls on the box and in the commercials. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Top chefs join call for gender-neutral Easy-Bake

Michelle Smith · December 12, 2012 12:04 am

FILE - This Sept. 8, 2011 file photo shows Hasbro's newest version of their famous "Easy Bake Oven" in Pawtucket, R.I. An eighth-grade girl from Garfield, N.J., has started an online petition asking Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to make the toy ovens in gender-neutral colors and feature boys on the package after she went to buy one for her little brother and discovered that it comes only in girly pink and purple, with girls and only girls on the box and in the commercials. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

NJ teen wants Easy-Bake Oven to appeal to boys

Michelle Smith · December 7, 2012 9:58 pm

Company asks to lower $18M fine in RI mercury case

Michelle Smith · December 4, 2012 7:12 pm

US to sell wind energy leases off 3 states

Michelle Smith · November 30, 2012 9:13 pm