Eyewitness testimony is a crucial part of many criminal trials even though research increasingly suggests that it may not be as accurate as we (and many lawyers) would like it to be.

By Mark Reynolds The $12.5 million, awarded to the University of Rhode Island, will pay for training for high school and middle school teachers.

By Philip Marcelo For 20 years, the routine had been the same. A screenwriter, a producer, or an ambitious actor would come along and purchase the exclusive rights to develop -- in Hollywood parlance, option -- the novel.

By Andy Smith, The Providence Journal, R.I. Aug. 3--Bad times usually mean a boom in continuing education.

As someone who taught Rhode Island history at Rhode Island College for years and has written a lot of Rhode Island history, I was appalled that so many erroneous items appeared in the June 5 article "Independence Trail Tour." 1. Rhode Island did not declare its independence in May 1776.