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First, as part of its effort to provide the best-possible access to mental health care, the Department of Veterans Affairs is reminding veterans that it offers same-day access to emergency mental health services at VA medical facilities across the country. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie calls it a top clinical priority.Veterans may call the Providence VA Medical Center at (401) 273-7100, ext. 3400, or visit the emergency department at the main building’s first floor at 830 [...]

Lawmakers rejected most of then-Gov. Lincoln Chafee's tax plans in 2011, but got behind one of his concepts in their annual budget — a future sales tax rate cut if the state were ever allowed to tax internet sales from the likes of Amazon.

CRANSTON — The TD Bank at 178 Phenix Ave. (Route 12) was robbed just before 2:48 p.m. Sunday by a man who, as recorded by security cameras, walked nonchalantly up to a teller, showed her a note and held open a blue deposit bag for her to fill.Cranston police Maj. Todd [...]

It's edgy and provocative and a story of our times. Playwright Naomi Iizaka tells the story of those in today’s society who fall through the cracks, live on the fringe and are forgotten as much as they forget themselves.

Conserving this property has environmental advantages. It has prime farming soil and is located within a drinking-supply watershed, with the Maidford River and Paradise Brook nearby.

The same three who short-circuited the library's proposed expansion support a reduced library budget at workshop.

PROVIDENCE -- April has been a rainy month, and it looks like the region will get at least one more round of wet weather before the calendar flips to May on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.Monday looks dry and "seasonably warm" with sunny skies and a high near 59 degrees, according to the Weather Service."Weak low pressure will track south of New England tonight and Tuesday morning bringing a period of wet weather to the area," the Weather Service says. [...]

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — Eight-year-old Noya Dahan had finished praying and gone to play with other children at her Southern California synagogue when gunshots rang out. Her uncle grabbed her and the other children, leading them outside to safety as her leg bled from a shrapnel wound."I was scared, really, really scared," said Noya, recalling how the group of children cried out of fear after a gunman entered Chabad of Poway on Saturday morning and started shooting. "I didn't see my [...]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints considers same-sex marriage to be a "serious transgression" - and, until this spring, treated Mormons involved in these unions as apostates, subject to church disciplinary hearings that could result in their excommunication. So a commencement ceremony on Friday at Brigham Young University, the flagship academic institution of the Mormon Church, was an unlikely occasion for this pronouncement: "I stand before my family, [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Police arrested three Massachusetts men and took three handguns off the streets early Monday. Commander Thomas Verdi said Patrolman Brendan McKenna was in the area of Longmont and Salina streets at about 1 a.m. because of a recent increase in gunfire in that area. McKenna saw a black Dodge Charger speeding down the street and then blow past a stop sign onto Longmont Street, Verdi said. When police stopped the car, the driver, 20-year-old [...]