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Raimondo's State House press team referred questions on where she stands now on Governor Edwards to David Turner, the spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association. His statement said: "While they disagree on this issue, Governor Raimondo remains confident that Louisiana is in good hands under Gov. Edwards' leadership."

As Jose Guzman was about to back into his driveway, a gray vehicle with tinted windows pulled up next to him. Guzman saw a shot from the rear passenger side. A bullet went through his windshield and into his upper right arm.

The Fall River police responded to a reported assault and found the suspect’s girlfriend bleeding from her mouth after he had punched her when she tried to end their relationship, the state police said.

WORCESTER — The savage murder and rape of 75-year-old Concetta Schiappa in September 1979 went unsolved for more than a year before investigators fixed their sights on her two great nephews.The two men, Gary and Michael Cifizzari, would later be convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Michael died behind bars; Gary has now served more than three decades in prison.The New England Innocence Project announced Friday it is is seeking Gary Cifizzari's release pending a new [...]

Sen. Frank Lombardi, D-Cranston, said he introduced the bill on the advice of his accountant, who relayed horror stories about clients being targeted for very old, "stale" liabilities they no longer had the records to dispute.

The approved budget plan increases the city’s tax levy by almost 3.5% percent in the budget year that begins July 1. Following a recent revaluation of real estate, the residential property tax rate will actually decrease to $18.73 per $1,000 of assessed value.

Southern New England typically gets one to three tornadoes a year, and they're usually weaker storms, but every decade or so, a stronger storm hits the region. In June 1954, "the granddaddy of them all" roared through Worcester for 84 minutes and killed 94 people, Field said.

“I happened to be home with a high school girlfriend who, of all things, was a drinking water expert,” says this week's guest on "Story in the Public Square," Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. The friend asked if the pediatrician had heard about Flint's “new” water. She had. She had heard the reassurances of public officials that it was safe.Except it wasn’t. And she did research to prove it, and then set out to tell the world about it.

MIDDLETOWN — Newport schools Superintendent Colleen Burns Jermain will ask the Middletown Town Council to discuss the possibility of a joint Newport-Middletown high school during the council meeting Monday night.“The short time we sit and listen to each other may surprise us on what we may learn, especially if it means we can maintain the same structures and students we now service, PK-8,” Jermain wrote in a memo, “and allow our communities together to [...]

"My father lost his job at the mill and my stepmother's salary from working at a department store was all the income we had," said Helen Dannis, an only child whose mother died five days after childbirth. "So I missed the dance and stayed home."