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Name decision to go to voters
What’s in a name? It will be for the voters to decide. The deadline for submitting questions for this fall’s election ballot has passed, and only one issue will go to a statewide vote. That question asks voters whether they support stripping the word “plantations” from the full state name of Rhode Island and Providence [...]
Langevin to preside over House of Representatives
Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin ill become the first person to preside over the U.S. House of Representatives from a wheelchair, after the speaker’s rostrum was made handicapped accessible.
Langevin’s office on Thursday said the five-term representative will preside over the House on Monday to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities [...]
Hicks, 21, killed in bike accident
Tragic news out of South Dakota as a 21-year-old Brown University senior riding across the country to raise money for affordable housing was killed Tuesday in South Dakota after she was struck by a trailer truck’s wide load as she checked phone messages on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 18. Paige Hicks, who hailed from [...]
Nun carjacked in Pawtucket
A carjacker forced a 72-year-old Pawtucket nun out of a car Tuesday, knocking her to the pavement of the Smithfield Avenue CVS lot and taking her keys and purse, the police said Wednesday.
The nun was not injured. Pawtucket police would not release her name or religious order. Lt. Napoleon Gonsalves said he didn’t know whether [...]
Soares gets two life sentences for double homicide
A Rhode Island man has received two consecutive life sentences for killing his parents and burying their bodies in their backyard cesspool.
Twenty-six-year-old James Soares Jr. was sentenced Wednesday in Providence Superior Court for the July 2008 murders. He pleaded guilty in April to killing James and Marian Soares, stashing their bodies in the cesspool [...]
15 year old girl dead in car accident
State police say a 15-year-old girl has died after the minivan she was in rolled over on Interstate 95 in Richmond. Police think a tire on the van blew out, causing the driver to lose control just before the rollover on Monday morning in which four other people were hurt and needed hospitalization. Police say [...]
Catalan’s possible murderer arrested
A man has been arrested in the strangling death of a Providence woman. The woman, identified as 22-year-old Lisbeth Catalan, was found dead Saturday morning inside her home on Chalkstone Avenue in Providence. Police have arrested a suspect, Victor Onishi. Providence Detective Lt. Paul Campbell said that police found him suffering from an overdose on [...]
Dogs sniffing cell phones
The Rhode Island Corrections Department is joining an increasing number of prisons systems using dogs not only to sniff out weapons and drugs, but also cell phones. Prisons officials say dogs have sniffed out about a half dozen phones as well as other electronic devices in the past couple of years.
Murder at Balloons strip club
Providence police are looking for the suspect in the shooting outside a city strip club over the weekend. Authorities say 29-year-old Paulo Jorge Barbosa of Pawtucket man is dead after being shot several times during a dispute outside the wonderfully named Club Balloons at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday. It was the city’s 10th homicide of [...]
Providence woman dead
Providence police say detectives are investigating the death of a 22-year-old woman in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Police were called to the Chalkstone Avenue home on Saturday afternoon when residents broke down the woman’s bedroom door and
found her body. A Providence police spokesman says there was no evidence of substance abuse or health problems. [...]
