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COVENTRY -- A pony that was found wandering around Coventry Thursday morning is now back with its owners, police there said.Described as a “chestnut mini pony,” the animal was in the area of Hopkins Hollow and Flat River roads, the police said.Police posted a picture of the pony, sporting a dashing blond mane that hid its bashful eyes -- looking a bit embarrassed at having been corralled by the authorities -- in an attempt to find its owner.By 8 a.m., after [...]

PROVIDENCE — A Springfield, Massachusetts, woman was given three sentences of life in prison Wednesday following her conviction in the 2016 shooting death of a Pawtucket man, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced.Trearra Hudgen, 29, was found guilty in November of first-degree murder, discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence resulting in death, first-degree robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit assault with a [...]

FALL RIVER -- Police responded to the McDonald’s on Plymouth Avenue early Sunday morning after a man fired a gun at a delivery driver who refused to buy him a hamburger, according to police. The driver, a 36-year-old Taunton man, worked for an “internet food delivery service,” Fall River Police Detective John Robinson said. The man told police he was waiting in line at the 300 Plymouth Ave. restaurant drive-thru at about 3:30 a.m. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee chairman formally asked the IRS to provide six years of President Donald Trump's personal tax returns and the returns for some of his businesses as Democrats try to shed light on his complex financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest.The request by Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, who heads the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is the first such demand for a sitting president's tax information in 45 years. The [...]

Two years ago, Liz Smith, director of nursing at Franciscan Children's hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, was headed toward the elevator at work when she saw her: a tiny girl with bright blue eyes and a single soft brown curl swept across her forehead. "Who's this beautiful angel?" Smith asked the nurse who was wheeling the infant down the hall. "Her name is Gisele," the nurse told her. The infant, a ward of the state, had been at the hospital for five months, but Smith [...]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities conducted DNA testing to try to determine Thursday whether a teenager found wandering in Kentucky is who he claims to be — an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago around the time his mother took her own life.The teenager told police in Newport, Kentucky, on Wednesday that he had just escaped two kidnappers in the Cincinnati area, just across the Ohio River, and he identified himself as 14-year-old Timmothy Pitzen.In 2011, a [...]

PROVIDENCE — Mayor Jorge Elorza announced Thursday that members of the Providence State House delegation would withdraw the Municipal Water Supply Systems Transactions Act, the bill that would have allowed the city to lease its water supply system to an outside entity, after it was met with resistance from politicians and the public.After hosting a series of community meetings on the proposal, which Elorza promoted throughout his campaign and second term as a potential solution [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Taylor Swift knows all too well that "nothing good starts in a getaway car."The 29-year-old pop star invoked the lyrics of her own song, "Getaway Car," in response to a police chase Tuesday that ended with a stolen car crashing into the gates of her beachfront home in Rhode Island. Swift wasn't at home at the time.A fan of the [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Parents of children who have died of sepsis in Rhode Island are asking the state to establish standard protocols for detecting the condition.The mothers of three children who died testified before the House Health, Education and Welfare Committee Wednesday in favor of a resolution requesting the state create protocols similar to ones in place in other states. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sepsis occurs when an infection [...]

CVS Health is expanding same-day prescription deliveries nationwide in the latest push by drugstores to keep customers who don't want to wait and are doing more shopping online.The drugstore chain says it can deliver medications and other products within a few hours to homes or offices from 6,000 locations. The company started this service, which comes with a fee, in late 2017 in New York and expanded it to several cities last year.Rival Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. also [...]