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A North Kingstown man was arrested Wednesday and charged with sending a series of violent and threatening emails to a college professor in Massachusetts and to a professional school at the university where the professor teaches.Matthew Haviland, 30, was charged by complaint with cyberstalking and with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, according to the office of Andrew E. Lelling, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Haviland will appear Wednesday in federal court in Boston. [...]

The news comes in the same year that another Rhode Island summer tradition is grounded: The Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show — known more familiarly as the Quonset Air Show — has been canceled for 2019 as well.

PROVIDENCE — Starting in May, the Raimondo administration plans to dock Medicaid payments to dozens of nursing homes that have not "voluntarily'' reimbursed the state for $84.3 million in payments they were advanced to hold them over while the applications of scores of prospective nursing home patients were snagged by the state’s balky "UHIP" computer system.Most of the homes in this extended tug-of-war with the state's Executive Office of Health & Human Services [...]

NEW YORK — Sarah Jessica Parker and a British jeweler have settled a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the actress.Kat Florence Design sued Parker, arguing that she had agreed to promote a collaborative jewelry line of diamonds and other gems for a fee of $7.5 million but failed to live up to the obligation.Parker filed a lawsuit of her own, saying payments from the designer were "abruptly and without notice or explanation stopped" in October 2016. She [...]

PROVIDENCE — A Superior Court judge on Wednesday sentenced a Cranston man acquitted of murdering his friend to serve 18 years in prison as a habitual offender who stole his friend's car and tried to barter it for drugs and committed other crimes.Judge William Carnes said in doling out the sentence to 57-year-old Louis Sinapi that it came in response to the "extraordinary and aggravating" circumstances of the crimes. The court, Carnes said, needed to ensure that Sinapi, a [...]

Four apartment building proposals and one for an office building are competing for a site in the former Route 195 corridor across an intersection from the Wexford Innovation Center campus. The I-195 Redevelopment District Commission expects to choose a preferred developer at its next meeting, scheduled for May 22.

These teams of guidance counselors, administrators, mental health professionals and police would train faculty on how to recognize students who could become violent, come up with policies around reporting suspicious behavior and evaluate students considered dangerous.The bill passed unanimously with no discussion.

PROVIDENCE — With the days counting down for state regulators to consider Brigham Health’s proposed acquisition of Care New England, Lifespan on Wednesday launched an intensive campaign warning that Rhode Island’s health-care consumers face “dire consequences” if the acquisition is approved.Instead, Lifespan president and CEO Dr. Timothy J. Babineau and his board assert, the state’s interests would be best served by “a unified, [...]

On Thursday, Police Chief James J. Mendonca will retire. He was appointed in December 2012 by then-Mayor-elect James A. Diossa. Maj. Daniel Barzykowski has been named his replacement.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The embattled Bedford Gardens nursing home and four other Southeastern Massachusetts facilities owned by Skyline Healthcare will close, a state spokeswoman told The Standard-Times on Wednesday."Skyline Healthcare will voluntarily surrender the licenses for each of their five Massachusetts nursing homes," a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in an email. "The Department of Public Health is working with the licensee on an [...]