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FALL RIVER – Of all the animals his office has helped rescue and rehabilitate, Cape Wildlife Center Executive Director Dr. Zak Mertz said Pierce the Canada goose was among the most famed. “He is definitely one of our most famous patients. The only one I can remember that got more attention was another goose that was also shot with an arrow, but he was shot through the head,” said Mertz. But unlike “zombie goose,” Pierce [...]

NEWPORT — A federal judge ruled this week that Police Chief Gary Silva, City Manager Joseph J. Nicholson Jr. and the city denied retired Police Sgt. Albert “Jim” Quinn Jr. due process when he was removed from the Retired Officer Corps in March 2014 without written notice and without a written explanation.Retired Officer Corps members work special details, of which there are many in the city.U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. issued a 15-page [...]

Data show that Rhode Islanders' personal income grew in 2018, but those gains were completely or almost completely erased by inflation.

PROVIDENCE — Cheryl Ruzzo traveled from Vermont on Wednesday to give her 8-year-old adopted daughter a voice.Ruzzo addressed the court at the sentencing of the child's biological father, Charles Parker, for victimizing, abusing and traumatizing her daughter."We promised [her] that when the time came, we would make sure her words were heard loud and clear so that everyone would know just how brave she really was to tell the horrific and awful things you did to her and [...]

PROVIDENCE — The panel that helps vet the state's judges has forwarded the names of five lawyers to Gov. Gina Raimondo for consideration for the Workers' Compensation Court bench.The Judicial Nominating Commission selected Monique A. Desormier; Hagop S. Jawharjian; Jeffrey Liptrot; Kevin B. Reall; and Michael A. St. Pierre as candidates to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Janette A. Bertness. Desormier since 2017 has worked as agency counsel for [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Detectives are investigating the robbery of a CVS Sunday.According to Commander Thomas Verdi, a man walked into the CVS at 799 Hope St. at about 6:40 p.m. and demanded that an employee open the register.The employee opened it, and the suspect grabbed money and fled, police said. The suspect was described as having tattoos on his hands and was wearing a dark zip-up hoodie, jeans, a camouflage baseball hat, reading glasses and had a full beard, police said. [...]

PROVIDENCE -- A second person died a day after a crash on Elmwood Avenue Sunday, Providence police say.Carmen Negron, 51, was the passenger in a crash early Sunday. She died Monday from the injuries she suffered in the crash, according to Lindsay Lague, spokeswoman for the Providence police.Police also identified the driver, also killed in the crash, as Dilcia Hernandez, 43. Hernandez was [...]

PROVIDENCE — Authorities have made an arrest in the shooting death of a Woonsocket man last month.Sigismund Dantzler, 36, whose last known address was in Lincoln, was arrested with the help of federal authorities in New York City a week ago after fleeing Rhode Island in the wake of the slaying of Jose Santos, Major David Lapatin of the Providence Police Department said. [...]

PROVIDENCE — The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island has filed suit in federal court on behalf of Rhode Island's nonfiction writers, and renowned whistleblower Paul Caranci in particular, who accuse state Tax Administrator Neena Savage of discriminating against them.Titled Association of Rhode Island Authors v. Savage, the lawsuit centers on the sales tax exemption that [...]