RI – Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of Public Safety, announces that on Friday, February 28, 2014, members of the Rhode Island State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested Thomas L. Hewes, age 52, of 64 Verdant Drive, Cranston, Rhode […]readmore
PROVIDENCE - Providence City Council President and Democratic Mayoral candidate Michael Solomon announced today the hiring of Liz White as campaign manager for his mayoral campaign. "I am thrilled to have a campaign manager with an accomplished policy and communications background," said Solomon. "Liz is a great team builder and she is passionate about the […]readmore
PROVIDENCE – Seventeen elected officials representing Cranston today endorsed Aquidneck Island businessman Guillaume De Ramel in his race to become Rhode Island’s next Secretary of State. Senator Hanna Gallo, Senator Frank Lombardi, Rep. Robert Jacquard, Rep. Charlene Lima, Rep. Michael Marcello, Rep. Peter Palumbo, Council President John Lanni, Council Vice President Michael Farina, Councilman Mario […]readmore
Cumberland (Feb. 27, 2014) – Today, Cumberland Mayor and Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Dan McKee announced he has received the endorsement of North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi. «Dan McKee will be an outstanding lieutenant governor. As a small business owner, like myself, and community leader for more than 30 years, he has a vision for […]readmore
A wide variety of diseases and psychological disorders in school-age children are linked to the fact that they are children of older men. So says an extensive joint investigation by Indiana University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden where 2.6 million people were studied. The researchers noted that these diseases are caused by mutations in […]readmore
Rhode Island – Former Central Falls Mayor Charles D. Moreau will appear at the District Court of the United States on Friday and leave there as a free man after his 2-year sentence in prison is halved. Despite his guilty plea on a charge of fraud to a federal program, this will be nullified, even […]readmore
Rhode Island – Rhode Island Housing announced that it has received federal tax credits for two developments to provide 107 affordable housing in the city of Providence. One project will be at Sankofa Apartments which will include 50 rental units at an affordable price on vacant land in the neighborhood of West Elmwood. The second […]readmore
Rhode Island – A Missouri man pleads guilty to sex trafficking when he took a 17 year old with disabilities from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. Stephen Ardrey, 30, admitted that he met the girl online and contacted her for several months, until last September when he met her in Medfield, Massachusetts where he later took her […]readmore
Rhode Island – A man from Swansea, Mass. who robbed five banks in Rhode Island and Massachusetts over a period of 26 days in 2012 was sentenced to 105 months in federal prison. Scott Niemic 36, pled guilty to charges of bank robbery in October. Authorities said Niemic handed threatening notes to the teller in […]readmore
Within the last eighteen months, a small group of children have been admitted to hospitals in California with polio-like symptoms, but without the disease. Cases have occurred in a diameter of 100 miles, so the research team does not believe the virus outbreak represents a single or group. However, the possibility remains that many more […]readmore