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PROVIDENCE — The panel that helps selects the state's judges has forwarded to Gov. Gina Raimondo the names of six lawyers for consideration for two Superior Court seats.The Judicial Nominating Commission on Thursday night selected Monica Horan, of Horan Law Office in Pawtucket; District Court Judge Joseph T. Houlihan Jr., named to the bench in 2009; Superior Court Magistrate Richard D. Raspallo, appointed in 2017; and Assistant Attorney General Mark J. Trovato as candidates for [...]

"Everyone has their opinion of what I should or shouldn't do," R.I.'s governor says in response to criticism from abortion-rights advocates that she hasn't pushed hard enough to get Roe v. Wade codified in state law. "In this one, I have been crystal clear there from the beginning. I thank them. I understand they are frustrated, and I think we have to just focus on the Senate."

Toxic chemicals that poisoned Burrillville wells could be part of a burgeoning public-health crisis, and environmental activists are urging more aggressive action.

But seven years ago, as a URI freshman, she beat huge odds just to survive.

R.I. native and longtime Seekonk resident Linda Limperis has come to represent a certain type of mom familiar to many people on the internet, thanks to the wildly popular video impersonations of her by daughter Alyssa Limperis, now a Los Angeles-based actress and comedian.

BOSTON (AP) — Authorities have charged a prominent Massachusetts doctor with driving drunk, striking three pedestrians in a crosswalk and then leaving the scene.Dr. Michael Watkins, a vascular surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, was released on $1,500 bail after pleading not guilty Tuesday to charges including assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and operating under the influence.Prosecutors say the 64-year-old Watkins struck the victims just before [...]

CHATHAM — “No one has focused on the placard above my head and the irony in this discussion,” Town Moderator William Litchfield said, gesturing at the Monomoy Sharks banner on the gymnasium wall behind him. Voters laughed, but then went on to reject an article asking for $100,000 for a feasibility study and construction of a shark barrier or detection system to protect what is known as the Children’s Beach on Oyster Pond where the town conducts [...]

The husband, in fact, has won twice.

PROVIDENCE -- A suspect in a Providence murder appeared in District Court Wednesday after his arrest in New York City. Sigismund Dantzler, 36, did not enter a plea on the felony charges of murder and conspiracy in the April 16 death of Jose Santos. Santos was gunned down while in his car at the intersection of Melrose and Mitchell streets. [...]

Each day seems to offer new lessons for Washington in how perilous it can be to invoke the Holocaust. The lesson learned on Tuesday by members of the Harvard Lampoon, the vaunted satirical magazine founded in 1876, was a bit different. Best not to photoshop the head of Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish diarist who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, onto a shapely, bikini-clad body, the student humorists realized. Best, also, not to [...]