Love Songs from the Ocean State: 7 RI Artists Laying All Their Cards on...
If you’re as chronically online as I am, you might have caught wind of the way people from in and out of state romanticize a Rhode Island summer and share the nostalgia of having fallen in love here. Perhaps there’s something about the salty air breezing in from the bay on quiet beaches or the way PVD lights up at...
RI Tech Company Lays Off 38
East Greenwich-based EaglePicher has filed with the State of Rhode Island, notifying it that the company is laying off 38 Rhode Island employees. The layoffs are scheduled for March. EaglePicher filed its WARN letter (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) this month. A WARN letter is a legally mandated...
PHOTOS: A Look Inside Perry Raso’s New Matunuck Atelier – Bounce Back From Fire
The bounce back by noted Rhode Island food innovator Perry Raso is on. The chef, restaurant owner, and oyster farmer took a major blow in May 2025 when his Matunuck Oyster Bar was devastated by a fire. The building was a total loss. Now, Raso is opening Matunuck Atelier &...
Man Was Convicted of Raping R.I. Grandma, 66, Then Putting Her in a Bathtub...
A man serving life without parole for the 1999 rape and murder of a Rhode Island grandmother is now alleging that investigators planted DNA evidence as he seeks a new trial. Jeremy Motyka, 50, was convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual assault in the killing of 66-year-old Angela...
Massachusetts woman sentenced for embezzling $429,980 from environmental services company
BOSTON – The former office manager for a Franklin environmental services business was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for embezzling more than $400,000 from her employer. Marie Hobson, 55, of Attleboro, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Denise J. Casper to 18 months in prison...
3 Dead, Including 2 College Students, After Fiery Wrong-Way Crash
Rhode Island officials confirmed that three people — including two college students — were killed over the weekend in a wrong-way crash. In a news release, the Rhode Island State Police said authorities received 911 calls around 12:27 a.m. local time on Sunday, Jan. 25, about a vehicle traveling south on Route 99...
Attleboro repairs massive water main break on Route 152
The Attleboro Fire Department is working to fix a significant water main break that flooded a section of Route 152 Monday evening.
‘This is a critical moment’: Providence’s The Steel Yard reveals major financial issues
The Steel Yard, a pillar of Providence's arts scene, is facing serious financial difficulties and has parted ways with its executive director. The organization, which is 25 years old, offers classes in industrial arts such as blacksmithing and welding and is known for creating functional public artworks such as bike...
McKee’s proposed FY2027 budget drops GLP-1 drugs for weight loss from Medicaid
Are GLP-1 drugs prescribed for weight loss becoming too outsized a line item for continued coverage through the state Medicaid program? That’s what Gov. Dan McKee’s fiscal year 2027 budget suggests. Medicaid costs roughly quadrupled between the start of fiscal year 2024 and the end of fiscal year 2025 in per-member...
Attleboro woman sentenced to 18 months for embezzling more than $400,000 from Franklin-based employer
BOSTON — A former office manager for Franklin-based Green Site Services Group, Inc., an environmental services business, was sentenced in federal court to 18 months in prison for embezzling more than $400,000 from her employer, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. On Thursday,...
