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Rhode Island’s statewide primary will be held on Tuesday, and while the majority of voters are expected to vote by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic, in-person voting will be open at polling places around the state.To find your polling place, visit vote.sos.ri.gov/Home/PollingPlacesVoters can also call their local Board of Canvassers for polling place information.…

After a story appeared online about the University of Rhode Island removing 1950s murals from its Memorial Union as part of a renovation plan, university officials heard from the artist’s family, and the plans may be changing.URI had planned to update the interior of the Union, which serves the school’s more than 17,000 students with…

The literary landscape has certainly changed since Vanessa Lillie published her first novel. With her second book slated for release on Tuesday, she reflects on how things will be different this time around, due to the coronavirus, but she still has plenty to be thankful for. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release…

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island’s cities and towns are disputing the legality of a 50% cut by the Raimondo administration in a $12.4-million aid program for “distressed” communities, including “some with the highest COVID-19 case rates in the state.”The administration put city and town leaders on notice that it was likely to go ahead with the…

NARRAGANSETT — The body of a young minke whale that washed up on Scarborough State Beach with the high tide Sunday at about 11 a.m. was to be buried Monday morning.TO OUR READERS: This content is being provided for free as a public service during the coronavirus outbreak. Sign up for our daily or breaking…

PROVIDENCE — As headlines go, this one reaching back 64 years into Rhode Island’s political history is an eye-grabber:”Elections can be stolen in the United States. It happened to my grandfather.”Right under this October 2016 Washington Post headline appeared the words: “When politicians make voters suspicious of the electoral system, the whole country suffers.”Ring any…

Mainly dry weather, seasonable temperatures and low humidity levels this holiday weekend. Partly cloudy Sunday, with a low around 61.Labor Day, Monday, will be sunny, with a high near 78.Warm and increasingly humid conditions will return Tuesday through the end of next week. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

Social-justice activists on Saturday afternoon brought a strong message against racism and for equality and diversity to a predominantly white and affluent town that recently witnessed an incident in which a resident allegedly used racial slurs during an altercation with a neighbor. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

CENTRAL FALLS — At least one person was injured in an afternoon shooting Saturday, according to a local media report.In an online post, WPRI TV said that one person was brought to the hospital following an incident that briefly closed a section of Washington Street.”12 News obtained witness video of emergency personnel responding to the…

They’ve found ways to keep the place generating revenue through the coronavirus shutdown, and now they can offer wine by the glass, flight or bottle at outdoor tables near the vines. Top Featured Tags: – Rhode Island News Press Release Distribution Service

An East Providence state lawmaker seeking re-election Tuesday says he plans to file months’ worth of overdue campaign finance reports next week as voters head to the polls.First-term Democrat Jose Serodio has failed to submit the last three financial reports required of candidates with a primary race, covering all campaign spending and fundraising going back…

CUMBERLAND – Cumberland is the latest school district to defy Gov. Gina Raimondo’s plan to bring every student back to school in person this fall.Over the objections of many parents, the School Committee voted Thursday to go to remote learning when schools reopen Sept. 14, and to move to a hybrid model Oct. 13.Raimondo has…

LACEY, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.The man, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was killed as…

Nice weather is likely for the Labor Day weekend, according to the National Weather Service.”Dry and less humid conditions return today, but quite warm,” the Weather Service says in its forecast discussion. “The holiday weekend will feature dry and seasonably warm weather with low humidity, although an isolated shower is possible Sunday.”For this Friday, clouds…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NYPD says it is trying to locate a car that drove through a group of protesters blocking a street in Times Square.Video posted on social media shows the car jerking through the crowd with its horn blaring as demonstrators scramble out of the way.Car drives through protesters, Times Square, New…

A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man’s family.Daniel Prude died March…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police officers in Washington, D.C., fatally shot a young Black man Wednesday who the department said had “brandished a firearm,” prompting protests amid increased nationwide and local scrutiny over police tactics.The killing prompted a late-night face-off between police and dozens of protesters outside a city police station. Police identified the victim as…

The state Fire Marshal’s office has determined the fire that claimed the life of a Tiverton man on Aug. 28 was started by the man who died in the single-family home.Mark Bassaly, 27, died in the fire at the home at 197 Church Pond Road in Tiverton.”This cause of the fire was investigated by members…

A 28-year-old Cumberland woman was sentenced to serve two years at the Adult Correctional Institutions and in home confinement after she pleaded no contest to leaving the scene of a crash that seriously injured a tow-truck drive in 2019, according to Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.Emily Lowe drove away after striking the AAA…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former friend and adviser of Melania Trump said Tuesday that she made recordings of her conversations with the first lady because she needed evidence to protect herself amid questions about the costs of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, whose book “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship…

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts defeated U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Tuesday’s hard-fought Democratic primary, harnessing support from progressive leaders to overcome a challenge from a younger rival who is a member of America’s most famous political family.It was the first time a Kennedy has lost a race for Congress…

Meteorological fall arrived today with a fall-like start, the temperature at 57 degrees shortly before 6 a.m. in Providence.The temperature should climb to about 77 degrees under partly sunny skies.The month of August was hotter and drier than normal. The average temperature was 75.6 degrees, 3.3 degrees above normal, while the Providence area had just…