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PROVIDENCE — Police and fire crews recovered a body from the water off Collier Point Park just before 4 p.m. Saturday.The police and fire departments had been searching since about 2 p.m. after someone reported seeing a body in the water of the Providence River.The police said they had not identified the body or determined how the person died as of about 4 p.m.“The indication we have is it’s been there for some time,” police Maj. David Lapatin [...]

The agency says that virtually all of the overspending ($17.8 million) is due to increases in caseloads and to expensive treatment services required for some of the most needy children the agency serves.

Light rain Sunday with a high near 54. East wind 6 to 9 mph. Rain continues Sunday night with a low around 46. Northeast wind around 10 mph according to the National Weather Service.Cloudy through mid-morning Monday, then gradual clearing, with a high near 64. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Cicilline says he's hopeful special counsel Robert Mueller will appear before the House Judiciary Committee.Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat who is a member of the committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that "we hope the special counsel will appear" at that time and that "we think the American people have a right to hear directly from him."He later tweeted that "nothing has been agreed to yet."The committee chairman, Democratic Rep. [...]

PROVIDENCE (AP) — The leaders of the two federal cultural agencies are meeting with members of Rhode Island's congressional delegation and arts community.National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede are scheduled to take part in a "cultural conversation" about the important role the arts and the humanities play, both nationally and in Rhode Island.The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. [...]

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Testimony in the trial of a Massachusetts man charged with fatally beating and suffocating his 83-year-old father is scheduled to get underway.Glenn Armstrong, who once served prison time for threatening to kill then-President Bill Clinton, is charged with murder in the January 2017 death of Walter Armstrong, who was found on the floor of his Blackstone home with a trash bag over his head.Prosecutors say the younger man also stole his father's [...]

PROVIDENCE — A self-driving shuttle service is launching soon in Providence.Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo and state Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti say the "Little Roady" autonomous vehicle pilot program is scheduled to begin May 15. It's the first service of its kind in the state.The free service will operate seven days a week, with 12 [...]

WARWICK - A solidarity Prayer Service is held Sunday morning at Chabad of West Bay to honor victims of the attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue, in Southern California. A 19-year-old gunman opened fire killing one woman and injuring three others, including the rabbi.

PROVIDENCE — A six-vehicle crash in front of a prominent South Side church sent five people to the hospital on Sunday afternoon."All we heard was the sound of the boom," said Raymond Espinal, who was attending a youth group at the First Church of God when it happened. "One of the kids in there lives four houses down from me."Video from the crash showed a car jumping over the median strip while driving on Elmwood Avenue toward Cranston before hitting another vehicle [...]

Wild turkeys are thriving after being reintroduced 40 years ago. The hunting limit was raised to two males this spring season. But the birds are notoriously hard to hunt. In 2016, though 1,163 turkey-hunting permits were sold in Rhode Island, only 122 turkeys were actually reported harvested, according to state records.