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Update: Severe thunderstorm watch for 5 Massachusetts counties until 1 a.m. Wednesday
An updated severe thunderstorm watch was issued by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 9:51 p.m. in effect until Wednesday at 1 a.m. for Bristol, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk counties. Preparing for approaching lightning: Expert safety advice. Each year, lightning strikes the United States approximately 25 million times,...
AG seeks to hold Prospect in contempt for unpaid bills at Fatima, Roger Williams
The state’s top prosecutor remains locked in battle with the owner of two urban safety net hospitals over $17 million worth of overdue bills. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is now asking a state Superior Court judge to hold Prospect Medical Holdings LLC in contempt for failing to pay $17 million in overdue bills to hospital vendors by the court-ordered deadline. Neronha’s motion, filed in Providence County Superior Court on Friday, is the latest in an escalating legal battle over the company’s alleged failure to correctly manage the operations and finances of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence and Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence.
Connecticut marijuana sales outpaced by Massachusetts
Eighteen months after the sale of adult-use cannabis became legal, Connecticut marijuana sales remain lower than Massachusetts but above Rhode Island. The average price per gram of cannabis is also cheaper in Massachusetts than in Connecticut. The average price per gram of cannabis in Connecticut peaked in March, at $12.51 per gram. During June, it […] The post Connecticut marijuana sales outpaced by Massachusetts appeared first on Connecticut Inside Investigator.
Rhode Island woman accused with the international kidnapping of her five children
A federal charge has been brought against a woman from North Smithfield for reportedly taking her five children out of the country without informing their father. On Monday, U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha announced that Jessica Abreu, who is 33 years old, has been arraigned on a charge of international parental kidnapping.
Sheriff Paul Heroux: Close New Bedford's Ash Street Jail, an 'outdated money pit'
DARTMOUTH — Posed with costly long-term repairs to the 136-year-old Ash Street Jail, Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux is renewing his call to close it and move all inmates to the Dartmouth house of correction. The jail's brick work was recently checked by a structural engineering firm. It found...
Building housing Brick Alley Pub sold: Latest Newport County real estate transactions
94 Columbia Ave, $2,005,000, B: Derek W. Hansen & Mary E. Murphy, S: Edward J. Zimmermann. 53 Conanicus Ave Unit 5C, $1,025,000, B: Hart Ft & Roderick P. Hart Tr, S: Lori A. Cervone. 589 E Shore Rd, $1,165,000, B: Michael E. Thomas & Maryjo Thomas, S: Aram Manyan. 29...
Taunton Police Seek Help in Locating Missing Woman
TAUNTON (WBSM) — Taunton Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a woman who has been missing for over a month. Chief Edward Walsh said Amanda Brown, 37, is believed to have been missing since at least early June. He said Brown has ties to the Boston,...
An invasive weed is taking over RI's ponds and lakes. Can it be stopped?
Good morning, I'm Will Richmond at The Providence Journal and this is the Daily Briefing. It sounds like some type of monster that will take incredible measures to take it down. Living in Rhode Island's waters it can grow 16 feet a day. Fortunately, it won't grab your legs and pull you under, but...
Program gives parents of special-needs kids a break – and helps train RI's future nurses
NARRAGANSETT – As Mister Rogers’ mother said, always “look for the helpers. You’ll always find people who are helping.” That was the case on a foggy morning last week at Roger W. Wheeler State Beach, as two dozen nursing students hoisted beach tents, laid out blankets and set up a multitude of colorful...
Co-leaders of drug trafficking conspiracy involving Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, New York that shipped over 100 kilos of cocaine sentenced
PROVIDENCE, RI – The co-leader of a years-long drug trafficking conspiracy that shipped over 100 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. As reflected in court documents, Efrain Colon-Garcia, 43, and...
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