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Police Log: Stray Cats No, Loose Ducks Yes

9:33 a.m. – Police arrested an East Greenwich man, 37, for disorderly conduct and simple assault after he turned himself in on a warrant. He was involved in an incident at Extra Space Storage on South County Trail (where he was employed as manager) on October 12, where he allegedly held a man down while one of his...
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5 displaced after tree falls onto home in Burrillville

(WJAR) — A family was displaced after a tree fell onto a home in Burrillville during the storm on Friday. According to family members, high winds caused a large tree to fall onto their ranch on Pulaski Hill Road at around noon. No one was injured, but five were...
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Dem Rep. Amo: Visa Lottery Shouldn’t Be Scapegoat When Criminal Killed People ‘With Guns’...

On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) said that, in the wake of the Brown University shooting, the diversity visa lottery program “should not be scapegoated, because, at the end of the day, we had a criminal kill, with guns, and that is, frankly, something that we should not...
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Man arrested as fugitive from justice in Providence

PROVIDENCE, RI — A traffic stop led to the arrest of a fugitive wanted in Massachusetts on Friday night. Troopers arrested Corey A. Johnson, 36, of Coventry, at 10:30 p.m. on Carpenter Street. Johnson was wanted as a fugitive from justice out of Attleboro, Massachusetts, on an original charge...
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How One Man’s Santa Tradition Lights Up Rhode Island

Santa was out spreading joy on the side of a Rhode Island bridge, and the story behind why the jolly man himself makes this stop every year is the holiday joy we all need. Neil Lynch and his wife Sue were blessed with a granddaughter back in 2020. As we can all recall, that year was unlike any other. With their...
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Support these Verified Fundraisers for Brown Univ. Students

PROVIDENCE – Investigators discovered the body of the man officials say carried out the shooting at Brown University on Saturday, Dec. 13, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, in a storage unit in New Hampshire. While speculation on a motive will continue, the hooting , will start moving out of the news cycle.
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Best Ghost Towns For Astrophotography in Rhode Island

You’ll find Rhode Island’s best astrophotography at five prime ghost town locations: Fort Wetherill, Ramtail Factory, Rocky Point, Fort Mansfield, and Hanton City. These sites combine Bortle 4 dark sky conditions with compelling architectural ruins for dramatic foreground elements. For ideal results, target winter...
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Talking to our kids about the traumatic events following mass shooting at Brown University

It happened at a university where no one ever thought something like this would happen. "This one feels particularly painful," said Dr. Tanuja Gandhi, a pediatric psychiatrist at Bradley Hospital. But isn't that often the case?. Dr. Tanuja Gandhi, a pediatric psychiatrist at Bradley Hospital, spoke with NBC 10's...
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A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the 48-year-old Portuguese national returned to the campus again and...
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It honked (complimentary): One reporter’s thoughts on Goosemas 2025

Don’t weigh enough to make this life whole" Folks, they said it couldn’t be done. They said a white guy from Western Massachusetts with a degree in Ethnomusicology couldn’t make it to both nights of Connecticut jam band Goose’s annual holiday blowout, the creatively titled Goosemas. Well, buckle up, because this...

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