Can You Dig it? A Guide to Shellfishing in RI

Justin Whipple is waist deep in water at Gull Cove, just off Route 24 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He’s shimmying a bit, his eyes fixed on a far-off point. While it looks like he’s doing some sort of awkward dance, he’s actually plying the soft sands of the cove bottom in search of quahogs. It’s…

Signs of reopening: Brown University begins in-person classes for undergraduates

PROVIDENCE – Brown University has moved to its next phase of re-opening its campus, allowing undergraduate classes of 19 students or less to meet in-person.The in-person classes for undergrads began last Monday, according to an email to faculty and staff.The university has also opened its libraries and undergraduate, graduate and medical students can reserve study…

New Bedford hospitals say they’ve learned from first COVID wave as winter approaches

NEW BEDFORD – It has been six months since the coronavirus pandemic first swept across the nation, a time in which local hospital staffers learned more in the field than what their schooling had taught them.”We learned a lot in terms of responding to a pandemic,” said Shawn Badgley, public information officer for Southcoast Health,…

Worcester bans door-to-door trick-or-treating this year due to COVID-19

WORCESTER — The city is asking people not to trick-or-treat door-to-door this Halloween.According to the city, the community’s designation as being at higher risk for transmission of COVID-19, combined with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, prompted the decision not to endorse the fall tradition.TO OUR READERS: This content is being provided for free…

Sunny Sunday, high near 68

Sunny with light and variable wind Sunday with a high near 68.Mostly cloudy with a low around 50 Sunday night with slight chance of showers after 2 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

President Trump said to be improving, but next 48 hours ‘critical’

BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump went through a “very concerning” period Friday and faces a “critical” next two days in his fight against COVID-19 at a military hospital, his chief of staff said Saturday — in contrast to a rosier assessment moments earlier by Trump doctors, who took pains not to reveal the president…

In video, Trump says he hopes to ‘be back soon’

President Donald Trump on Saturday released a new hospital video in which he says he’s starting to feel better and hopes to “be back soon.”In the four-minute video, Trump says he “wasn’t feeling so well” when he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday after testing positive for the coronavirus.But he…

President Trump flown to Walter Reed military hospital, treated with remdesivir

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stricken by COVID-19, a feverish and fatigued President Donald Trump was flown to a military hospital Friday night where he was given remdesivir following treatment with an experimental drug at the White House.In a day of whipsaw events Friday, the president, who has spent months downplaying the threat of the virus, was…

Virus spreads on panel handling Supreme Court nomination

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about the timing of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett and whether additional senators may have been exposed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed the confirmation process is going “full steam ahead.”North Carolina…

State health department lists rules for safe trick-or-treating during pandemic

PROVIDENCE — After Gov. Gina M. Raimondo gave her approval this week to trick-or-treating and other Halloween festivities, state Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave guidelines for keeping the holiday safe during the coronavirus pandemic.”We want Halloween to go on but it has to be done differently this year,” Alexander-Scott said Wednesday during a briefing…

Brown Health dean Jha: Trump’s COVID-19 infection ’total failure’ by White House

Dr. Ashish Jha, the new dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, called President Trump’s infection with COVID-19 “a total failure by the (White House) to protect the President.”Jha, a leading infectious disease expert, took to Twitter soon after news broke that Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19.Jha tweeted,…

President Trump and first lady test positive for coronavirus

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday.Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump was last seen by…

Westerly man faces 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography

A registered sex offender faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography after having been previously convicted for possession of child pornography.Vincent J. Siravo, 41, of Westerly was arrested by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force while he sat in a restaurant…

September continued string of warmer, drier than normal months

September is in the books and it marked the fifth month in a row of below normal rainfall in the Providence area, according to the National Weather Service.It was the fourth month in a row of above average temperatures.Providence had 1.2 inches of rain in September, which is 2.72 inches below normal, according to the…

Health Department warns of botulism risk in products from Cranston store

The Rhode Island Department of Health is warning of a botulism risk with products sold by a Cranston store.The Health Department is telling consumers to avoid juices, smoothies and sea moss gel from Health is Wealth Nutrition Center, which is located at 1674 Cranston Street.No health issues have been associated with the products, but the…

Tiverton schools won’t pay their share for resource officer

TIVERTON — Longtime School Committee member Sally Black asked her colleagues recently to reconsider funding their share of the cost of the school resource officer, but with more than 20 layoffs in the School Department due to budget shortfalls, she didn’t get the support she had hoped for.The vote was tied 2-2, so it failed.Black…

Zoo separates parrots for swearing at customers

LONDON (AP) — A British zoo has had to separate five foul-mouthed parrots who keepers say were encouraging each other to swear.Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade and Elsie joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre’s colony of 200 gray parrots in August, and soon revealed a penchant for blue language.”We are quite used to parrots swearing, but we’ve never…

More than 26,000 without power; high wind warning posted

More than 26,000 National Grid customers were without power shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, as high winds blow through the region.The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for winds of 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph.National Grid’s outage map is showing outages throughout the state, with 26,892 customers…

Mac Davis, country music singer, songwriter for Elvis Presley and actor, dies at 78

Mac Davis — a singer, songwriter and actor who wrote “In The Ghetto” and other classic songs for Elvis Presley before becoming a multitalented star in his own right — died Tuesday at age 78.The announcement was made by the Country Music Association, following word from Davis’ manager that he had become “critically ill” after…

Judge OKs lawsuit claiming environmental threat at Providence waterfront fuel terminal

PROVIDENCE — A lawsuit alleging that Shell has failed to adequately protect its fuel terminal on the Fields Point waterfront from the impacts of climate change is set to move forward after a federal judge rejected much of the oil and gas giant’s motion to dismiss the case.In a […] Top Featured Tags: – Rhode…

Taunton woman’s sign says husband ‘being killed’ by loud music — but no one else seems to agree

TAUNTON — Dorothea Pelletier, 54, has lived with her 75-year-old husband and her two teenage children on 4th Street in Taunton for more than 20 years. But she says she can get no peace in her own home because of the loud music being played by her next-door neighbors.Pelletier claims her neighbors, the Nunez family,…

Heavy rain could finally hit tonight

The Providence area finally got some rain Monday, but it wasn’t enough to put a dent in the drought that’s stricken the region.Just .05 inches of rain was recorded in Providence Monday, and the city is down 2.99 inches from its normal rainfall for the month.Relief is apparently on the way, though. The National Weather…

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