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
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Providence – A 17-year-old boy died of a gunshot wound in Providence Tuesday night. The Providence Police were called to a home on Colfax Street shortly before 9 p.m., and officers discovered the boy with a gunshot wound in the Kitchen. The boy was later pronounced deadreadmore
The Food and Drug administration is launching a new campaign geared towards teens in hopes of stopping them from smoking and encouraging them to quit. This $115 million multimedia education campaign called «The Real Cost» will use adds depicting yellow teeth, wrinkled skin, and other costs at-risk teenagers face if they smoke cigarettes. Beginning February […]readmore
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV) is launching Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month 2014 with a campaign created and depicted by teens from a Providence organization called Young Voices. Prior to February, these high school students met and brainstormed ideas for a public service announcement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_xLhsvl-c) that focuses on dating abuse […]readmore