VOA News At least six children were killed when a school bus carrying dozens of students in the southern U.S. city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, crashed Monday. Police say at least 35 students from kindergarten through grade 5 were on the bus when it crashed, turned on its side and wrapped around a tree. Twenty-three children […]Load more...
VOA News NEW YORK/CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA —Police fired tear gas and water at hundreds of protesters in the freezing North Dakota weather late Sunday and early Monday, in the latest violent clash over a pipeline project running through the state. An estimated 400 protesters mounted the Backwater Bridge just north of Cannon Ball, North […]Load more...
VOA News Texas police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a veteran Texas policeman, one of four officers shot in the line of duty Sunday in multiple states. Police say the 31-year-old suspect, Otis McKane, was arrested without incident Monday evening following an extensive manhunt. They say they do not yet know […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, RI – «What cheer, Netop.” The famous greeting of the Narragansett to Roger Williams along the shore of the Seekonk River in 1636 still resonates throughout the Ocean State today. A new exhibition at the Rhode Island State Archives, entitled “First Nations who helped form Rhode Island” chronicles the history of indigenous peoples, including […]Load more...
WASHINGTON, DC – A deadly year for law enforcement just got a lot worse these past few days when five officers were shot, two of them fatally. The shootings occurred in four different states and at least three of the incidents appear to have been cold-blooded ambush-style attacks. On Friday, November 18, Deputy Commander Patrick […]Load more...
VOA News/Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD —Pakistan’s military says intense clashes with India along the disputed Kashmir frontier Monday killed at least four Pakistani civilians and wounded 10 others. The army’s media wing, in a statement said, “effective retaliatory fire» killed six Indian soldiers. It did not cite sources for the Indian casualty toll and there has […]Load more...
Press Conference Owen West, age 16 and a Survivor of Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Speaks Out to Raise Awareness Providence, RI – November 18, 2016 – Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West LLC hold a press conference with Governor Gina M. Raimondo and the American Red Cross at PLDW’s Providence office, to raise awareness of Rhode Island’s […]Load more...
Haitians are awaiting preliminary results from Sunday’s long-delayed presidential election, which took place after balloting in October of last year was annulled due to allegations of fraud. Six million people were eligible to vote for one of 27 presidential candidates, as well as for some members of both houses of parliament. Reports have suggested that […]Load more...
VOA News A major fire engulfed a central market in the hillside Petionville district above Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, late Sunday. The cause of the fire was unclear. It came hours after polls closed for the long-delayed presidential election. Meanwhile, Haiti’s electoral council president warned candidates to accept the official results and not make premature announcements. […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.* [Brown University] — Brown University President Christina Paxson has joined more than 100 college and university presidents calling for the continuation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has allowed more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to remain in the country. […]Load more...
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