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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (TNS) — All massage parlor videos from the prostitution sting that ensnared billionaire Robert Kraft must remain sealed — though not indefinitely, a judge ordered Monday.Over the objection of lawyers for numerous news media outlets — including the South Florida Sun Sentinel — Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Joseph Marx sided with the wishes of defense attorneys for Kraft and several other people charged in the [...]

PROVIDENCE — A week after Stop & Shop employees ended an 11-day strike and returned to work, Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts union members ratified their contract nearly unanimously Monday, and stores seemed to have returned to pre-strike business as usual.Tim Melia, president of Local 328 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International, said Monday evening that in each of four meetings, two in Foxboro and one each on the islands of Martha's Vineyard and [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Rain showers are in the forecast for much of the rest of this week and even into the weekend.Expect showers today, mainly before 9 a.m., according to the National Weather Service."Weak low pressure will track south of New England this morning, bringing a period of rain. High pressure should maintain dry weather tonight through Wednesday," the Weather Service says.The high temperature should reach about 51 degrees under cloudy skies.On Wednesday, [...]

The day of reckoning inside an Upstate New York courtroom did not go as planned - at least for prosecutors and the victim's family. Last Thursday, Shane Piche, a former bus driver for the school district in Watertown, N.Y., received his sentence. Two months earlier, the 26-year-old had pleaded guilty to third-degree rape. According to the Watertown Daily Times, Piche had raped a 14-year-old girl who was on his bus route. But rather than hand Piche a [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed soldiers early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for the military to rise up and oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro."I want to tell the Venezuelan people: This is the moment to take to the streets and accompany these patriotic soldiers," said Lopez, who had been detained since 2014 for leading anti-government protests. [...]

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — The lone suspect in a fatal attack on a Southern California synagogue was a star scholar, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism has dumbfounded his family and others who thought they knew him well.John T. Earnest, 19, made the dean's list both semesters last year as a nursing student at [...]

Don’t write or email if this sporting fantasy suddenly veers off track.Save those calls for my editor. Or Bunky.We are not here to serve as some voodoo sage and jinx things as the Bruins and Celtics march on in playoff runs that resume Tuesday night. We know that David Pastrnak is suddenly turnover-prone and that Al Horford can’t keep stealing Giannis Antetokounmpo’s lunch money.Yet the delicious possibility of a historic Boston sports [...]

NEWPORT — The City Council’s attempt to give preference to young adults for apartments at the former Cranston-Calvert School ran into legal objections at last week’s council meeting. City Solicitor Christopher Behan is now revising a rejected council resolution in connection with the selling of the former school to be converted into apartments. Under the proposed resolution, the council would have directed “the city [...]

A North Providence police officer has been cleared in the non-fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced Tuesday morning.The statewide grand jury investigated the shooting and determined that Patrolman Mathieu Florio's actions were legally justified, according to Neronha. The grand jury declined to return an indictment.On Dec. 9, 2018, [...]

PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns has launched a radio and social media ad campaign opposing legislation, headed for Senate votes on Wednesday, to lock in expired public employee union contracts indefinitely and mandate the payment of overtime to firefighters after they average 42-hour workweeks.In a statement out [...]