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TIVERTON — A 55-year-old Middletown man was identified by police as a suspect in a break-in and theft reported at the Boat House restaurant on Feb. 28.Tiverton police, with the help of the Portsmouth and Middletown police departments, obtained a warrant to search the residence of Lino Loyola. That search resulted in the recovery of a number of stolen items from the restaurant at 227 Schooner Drive.Police said the suspect “stole a large quantity of alcohol and the [...]

PPROVIDENCE — A Providence woman is accused of stealing her neighbor's ferret and crushing its back, and force-feeding poison to her own dog.Late last month, police found Bear the ferret and Rhody the chihuahua suffering and unable to stand inside Melissa Snead's apartment at 157 Willow St. in Marvin Gardens Apartments. The officers had been called there to make a well-being check, and Snead at first told the police that someone had a key to her apartment and hurt the animals. [...]

The state’s fourth annual Brain Week kicks off Saturday with a reception, art fair and panel discussion, “Opioids: Health, Policy & Neuroscience.”

Democrat June Speakman notched another election victory for progressives in the East Bay on Tuesday, cruising to victory in a four-way Rhode Island House special election to represent Bristol and Warren at the State House, according to unofficial results.Speakman, a Warren resident and political-science professor at Roger Williams University, received 789 votes, or 41 percent. Libertarian William Hunt Jr., of Bristol, came in second with 513 votes. Kenneth Marshall of Bristol, the [...]

Some cities and towns would pay a share of what it costs to educate children and teenagers locked up at the Thomas C. Slater Training School under legislation that Gov. Gina Raimondo has proposed for the fiscal year that starts July 1.The proposed legislation, which has snagged the attention of Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung, “shifts education costs from the state to local education authorities” for youths at the Training School and also at certain other residential [...]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, the state GOP hierarchy and a former governor stand in opposition.

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PROVIDENCE — An 18-year-old is in serious condition at Hasbro Children's Hospital after a shooting that also injured a toddler in the same car, Providence Police Maj. David Lapatin said Tuesday night.The toddler's injuries were not life-threatening, Lapatin said.He said he had no information about where the shooting took place or how the teen and toddler got to the hospital.As for reports that the Hasbro emergency department was on lockdown, he said it's not [...]

The Providence theater company's season opens with the world premiere of George Brant’s adaptation of Mike Stanton’s book “The Prince of Providence,” and closes with a 40th-anniversary nod to “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”