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More than 25 percent of the trucks stopped in Rhode Island during a safety campaign this week were taken off the road because of vehicle or driver violations, according to the Rhode Island State Police.The police inspected 416 commercial vehicles traveling through the state from Tuesday through Thursday and took 117 out of service after finding 696 vehicle violations and 136 driver violations, the state police said.“We hope this enforcement effort sends a strong [...]

PROVIDENCE — If you happen to forget what city you’re in while staying at Providence's newest hotel, the portrait of former Mayor Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. on your wall will serve to remind you.The unique character of Rhode Island’s capital city takes center stage at the Graduate Providence, the new hotel in the former Providence Biltmore — where Cianci himself lived temporarily during the height of a federal investigation into his [...]

"Unaccompanied" women account for nearly 70 percent of all the women the nonprofit agency serves annually. It is a population that often doesn’t receive the resources available to other categories of homeless people, such as military veterans, families or the chronically homeless. But Crossroads R.I. provides housing, hope and dignity

PROVIDENCE — Legalized marijuana appears dead.The proposed $60-million new SuperMax prison for the state's most dangerous criminals appears dead.With one exception, all of the pieces in Governor Raimondo's multimillion-dollar tax-raising package are also unlikely to make it into the new state budget slated for rollout next week. [...]

“A lot of the counties in the Delta do fall below a certain income level,” public broadcasting reporter Alexandra Watts said, “and poverty's an issue that I report on. But I'm not just reporting on poverty, but how that intersects with everything from education to health care” to food insecurity and more.

The settlement involves three entities that used to own Fatima Hospital, Roger Williams Medical Center and the now-closed St. Joseph’s. They are CharterCare Community Board, St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island and Roger Williams Hospital.

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State senators this week condemned white nationalists and neo-Nazis over the objections of one Republican lawmaker who wanted militant leftist Antifa groups condemned as well.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled another vote on the hotly contested abortion-rights legislation that was narrowly voted down last month.Pro-choice advocates for the bill have been negotiating with key senators who are opposed to it to find potential compromise language, since the Senate version of the bill was defeated, 5-4, on May 14.After a vote on the House version of the legislation was added to the Judiciary Committee calendar late Friday, Senate spokesman [...]

When Sen. Frank A. Ciccone III testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month on his bill for three new medical marijuana dispensaries, he said the state now has so many licensed marijuana cultivators that there aren’t enough places for them to sell their product.What he didn’t say was that his daughter Carla is [...]