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April 28, 2023

Rhode Island House votes to let state health plans cover abortions

The Rhode Island House of Representatives has voted to allow state employees and Medicaid recipients to have abortions covered under their health plans.

April 25, 2023

Texas man gets 3 years for $1.5M online romance scam targeting seniors

Fola Alabi, 52, of Richmond, Texas, was sentenced to over three years in jail for his role in a million-dollar online romance scam that targeted women in their seventies and eighties.

April 6, 2023

Rhode Island nurse practitioner who defrauded insurers, Medicare out of nearly $12M sentenced to 7 years

Alexander Istomin, a nurse practitioner from Rhode Island, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding health insurance and Medicare out of almost $12 million.

April 4, 2023

Mayors’ coalition has big plans to take reparations movement national: ‘Moving that needle’

Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity, which has consisted of at least a dozen nationwide mayors, has moved to show how a federal reparations program could be implemented.

April 2, 2023

Providence's Alyn Breed faces 'numerous firearm offenses' after alleged domestic incident

Providence guard Alyn Breed was hit with a number of charges stemming from an alleged domestic incident involving his girlfriend on Saturday.

March 29, 2023

Portions of Rhode Island driver's manual being eliminated following objections from activists

Certain portions of a Rhode Island state driver's manual are being eliminated. A section advising drivers not to assume a traffic stop was based on race is being removed.

March 29, 2023

New York man who fatally shot mother of fiancée's ex-boyfriend in RI sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms

Jack Doherty has received two life sentences for fatally shooting the mother of his fiancée's ex-boyfriend in Rhode Island. He got engaged to his fiancée on the day before the killing.

March 28, 2023

Rhode Island Army sergeant's body accounted for, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery

The body of Sgt. Lawrence Robidoux, an Army sergeant form Rhode Island, was identified using DNA analysis. The sergeant died of starvation in a POW camp in 1951.

March 24, 2023

Rhode Island man who recorded himself sexually assaulting 2 teenage girls sentenced to 30 years

A man from Rhode Island was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls. The man filmed himself assaulting the girls with his cellphone.

March 21, 2023

K-12 curriculum 'socially engineering' millions into enraged young 'social justice warriors,' parents warn

Yale Medical School's Center for Emotional Intelligence uses persuasion tactics to influence students emotions about social justice issues.