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With sponsors such as the NRA and the IGT gaming company, state legislators have traveled to Taiwan, Hawaii, Greece and Colombia as well as destinations throughout the U.S.

The institute graduates 1,130 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center Sunday and for some the journey was long.

CHICAGO (AP) — Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora will not attend the ceremony at the White House on Thursday honoring the 2018 World Series champions.Cora cited the Trump administration's response to Hurricane Maria in his native Puerto Rico as the reason for his decision."The government has done some things back home that are great, but we still have a long ways to go," he said on Sunday following a 9-2 win over the Chicago White Sox. "That's our reality. It's pretty [...]

The Boots on the Ground for Heroes Memorial will host its annual Gold Star Gala evening with a special private viewing of the boots memorial on Friday, May 24, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at Fort Adams, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport.The event will be attended by and honor Rhode Island’s post-9/11 Gold Star Families and raise funds to support the Boots on the Ground for Heroes Memorial and Operation Stand Down Rhode Island’s Veterans Endowment Fund. The families will place the [...]

PROVIDENCE — A person died following a crash on Elmwood Avenue early Sunday morning.Providence police say that they learned of the incident around 2:30 a.m. and immediately responded to the scene.The two occupants of the vehicle were both taken to Rhode Island Hospital where one was pronounced dead and the other was in serious condition on Sunday afternoon.The identity of the person who died is being withheld until relatives are notified.—Kevin G. [...]

PROVIDENCE -- A federal judge says the board that oversees a Central Falls detention center can not break its contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and must allow the center to continue holding migrant detainees.In an order dated Friday, U.S. Chief Judge William E. Smith granted a preliminary injunction request made by the trustees of The Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility. They had challenged recent actions by the detention’s center board to suspend [...]

WARWICK — A mediator has resolved a dispute between Warwick school and city officials that had been driven by what the school system claimed was a shortfall in the city’s appropriation for education spending, Mayor Joseph J. Solomon said Tuesday. Solomon told The Providence Journal that at a mediation session Monday night, representatives of the School Committee agreed to end the conflict without any additional appropriations. The [...]

LYNN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts firefighter police say walked naked into a Rhode Island convenience store on a dare to buy a soda says it never happened. Lynnfield fire Capt. John Walsh was charged with disorderly conduct after an employee at the Middletown store reported the nude customer April 3. [...]

On Friday, the school resource officer at South Cumberland Elementary in Crossville, Tennessee, received an anonymous tip: Someone might be planning a shooting. There was a "hit list," the tipster said, containing names of students to be targeted. The resource officer immediately contacted authorities and an investigation was launched, according to a joint news release issued Monday by the Cumberland County schools, the county sheriff's office, and the Crossville Police [...]

PROVIDENCE — A push is on by a small group of lawmakers to give a pension boost to retired state and municipal employees, and public school teachers, in years when they would not otherwise get a "cost-of-living" increase.When the dust settled on the legal fight over the 2011 pension overhaul championed by then-state Treasurer and current Gov. Gina Raimondo, guaranteed annual COLAs had been relegated to history. They were replaced by likely increases every four years that would [...]