Colonel James M. Manni, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of the Department of Public Safety, announces that members of the Rhode Island State Police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) have arrested seven people in connection with two shooting incidents in the city of Providence. These arrests are the result of […]Load more...
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that Allen Hanson (age 33), of East Providence, pleaded guilty on June 11, 2019 to one count of involuntary manslaughter. Providence County Superior Court Justice Luis M. Matos sentenced Hanson to a 30-year full sentence with 26 years to serve at the ACI and the balance suspended with probation […]Load more...
By VOA News New York is the latest state where parents can no longer refuse to vaccinate children on religious grounds. Both houses of the New York State Assembly passed the measure Thursday and Governor Andrew Cuomo signed it immediately. The move comes while the United States is experiencing its worst outbreak of measles in 25 years. […]Load more...
VOA News/Jim Malone WASHINGTON – Joe Biden is holding on, Elizabeth Warren is surging, and President Donald Trump is fuming about recent polls and a Democratic presidential field he says is to the extreme left. It is all part of the latest ups and downs of the 2020 presidential campaign. Former Vice President Biden remains […]Load more...
VOA News/Masood Farivar Scores of foreign nationals, recruited by the FBI as witnesses and informants, disappeared between 2015 and 2017 in the United States, according to a new audit. The Justice Department’s inspector general said in an audit released Wednesday that in many cases, the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to report the missing foreigners […]Load more...
VOA News/Steve Herman White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will be departing her post within weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday. «Our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas,» Trump said on his personal Twitter account. Donald J. […]Load more...
VOA News/Carla Babb NORFOLK NAVAL STATION, VIRGINIA – A major military exercise involving maritime forces from 18 countries is underway in the Baltic Sea, but at its helm is not a fleet permanently based in Europe, but one based half a world away in the U.S. state of Virginia. Baltic Operations, known as BALTOPS, is […]Load more...
Starting Sunday Night, June 2 As part of roadway improvements on Route 6 in Scituate, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today announced a one-month closure and detour for westbound traffic, from Route 101 to Route 102, starting Sunday night, June 2. Eastbound traffic will not be affected during daytime hours and on weekends, […]Load more...
This image taken from video shows singer Jennifer Hudson posing with student journalists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who were recognized at the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners awards luncheon at Columbia University in New York, May 28, 2019. VOA NEWS Student journalists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were honored by the […]Load more...
State’s attorney Brad Beckworth delivers an opening statement during the opioid trial at the Cleveland County Courthouse in Norman, Oklahoman, May 28, 2019. VOA NEWS A civil lawsuit brought by the state of Oklahoma against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson went to trial Tuesday over the company’s alleged role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The first-of-its-kind trial, which […]Load more...