DES PLAINES, Ill. – The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released its annual Hot Wheels report which identifies the 10 most stolen vehicles in the United States. The report examines vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and determines the vehicle make, model and model year most […]Load more...
Providence, RI – On Wednesday, August 3, at 10 a.m., Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will join with leaders from Rhode Island’s recovery community and law enforcement for a soft opening of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s new facility co-located within The Providence Center on North Main Street. CODAC and The Providence Center have joined forces to provide complementary […]Load more...
The Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy hosts outdoor performances by the Providence-based contemporary dance company Providence, RI – The Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy (DPPC), the public-private partnership responsible for stewardship and programming in Greater Kennedy Plaza, will host Doppelgänger Dance Collective for two days of outdoor performances on August 9th and 11th, as part of their […]Load more...
Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of Public Safety, announces that the Rhode Island State Police have arrested nine (9) suspects for Driving While Intoxicated over the course of the weekend. The following is a list of those arrested: Amanda L. Luiz, age 26, of 11 […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo, joined by Chief Innovation Officer Richard Culatta and local education leaders, will visit the Bootstrap http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ Summer Camp at the Academy for Career Exploration (ACE) in Providence. According to the state Department of Labor and Training, by 2022, there will be more than 4,000 openings in computer and […]Load more...
Secretary Gorbea launches online voter registration in Rhode Island Voters
ROVIDENCE, RI – Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea today announced the official launch of her new Online Voter Registration (OVR) portal at vote.ri.gov and in Spanish at vota.ri.gov. With the August 14 voter registration deadline for the September State Primary just two weeks away, eligible Rhode Island voters can now securely register to vote […]Load more...
Providence – “I do not support placing this question before the voters. The administration has yet to provide concrete plans on how the money will be used. Promises of future oversight from the very councilmembers that were prepared to create multi-million dollar council-controlled slush-funds provides no assurance that this money will be spent wisely. City […]Load more...
Chris Hannas Turkish forces detained 11 soldiers Monday who are suspected of attacking a hotel where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was staying during an attempted coup in mid-July. The captures were made near the resort town of Marmaris, and followed the detention last week of several other soldiers accused of targeting Erdogan. The president had […]Load more...
VOA News A group of twenty gunmen inside a police station in the Armenian capital of Yerevan have surrendered to authorities, ending a tense, two-week standoff that left two police officers dead and several people wounded. The gunmen, members of a radical opposition group, surrendered one day after police said they would storm the building. […]Load more...
VOA News Safety tests on the net that would catch Luke Aikins indicated that the risk-motivated American skydiver might not survive the seven kilometer jump without a parachute. To come out alive, he had to navigate throwing himself from a plane above California’s Simi Valley on Saturday, reaching terminal velocity (193 km/hour) in a belly-to-earth […]Load more...