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The door to the medicine cabinet was dangling from its hinges and the bathtub was full of blood. Shele Danishefsky Covlin was wrapped in a comforter on the floor when police arrived, the blood still streaking through her long blond hair. Her estranged husband, Roderick Covlin, told police his wife had had a terrible accident, that she slipped and fell in the tub and that his 9-year-old daughter called him screaming early the morning of Dec. 31, 2009, [...]

SEEKONK — At least eleven vehicles got flat tires passing over a large pothole on Route 195 West between Fall River and Seekonk on Tuesday afternoon.The Massachusetts State Police told The Herald News (Fall River) that eleven cars had pulled over with flat tires about 3:25 p.m. The pothole was in the center lane.The problem caused delays and the closing of the right and center travel lanes. Work crews were called to repair the road.No injuries have been [...]

MIDDLETOWN — A Massachusetts man was charged with disorderly conduct last week after he allegedly entered the 7-Eleven on Aquidneck Avenue nude.Police were dispatched to the business April 3 about 3 p.m. The store owner wrote in a statement to police that a naked man approached the register with a “smile on his face” and purchased a soda, the police report said. Police were told the man left the property in a black Mercedes-Benz with a Massachusetts license plate. [...]

 WARWICK — Police are looking for a man and a woman who they say stole nearly $20,000 worth of designer eyeglass frames from the LensCrafters on Bald Hill Road. [...]

Officer James Lewis has suffered “irreparable harm” to his reputation as a result of being erroneously linked to an investigation of tire and rim thefts in East Providence, the head of the police officers’ union said Thursday.

PROVIDENCE — Two women accused of offering undercover police detectives sex in exchange for money at the Foxy Lady strip club in December, arrests that led to a battle over the club’s future, have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor prostitution.Neish Rivera, 26, of Pawtucket, and Melissa McNeely, 32, of Madison, Connecticut, entered their pleas in Superior Court on Tuesday, according to records.Rivera, who also faces a charge of [...]

NORTH PROVIDENCE — Stop & Shop workers across New England went on strike on Thursday afternoon, as they neared two months without a contract.In the Stop & Shop location on Mineral Spring Avenue in North Providence, there were groups of close to 20 protesting workers standing outside both entrance doors at about 1:15 p.m. The doors to the store were locked. (A spokeswoman for the company said later Thursday afternoon that staff at the supermarkets were greeting people at [...]

SMITHFIELD — Police here have arrested four more Bryant University students in connection with Sunday's on-campus assault.Jarret Martin, 19, of 81 Wachusett St., Franklin, Massachusetts, is charged with breaking and entering, and disorderly conduct.John Amaya, 20, of 45 Beck Ave., Rye, New York, and Jack [...]

PROVIDENCE — A fight over how Americans do their taxes has caused a split among Rhode Island's congressional Democrats.The Taxpayer First Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives this week, promises to make the IRS "reformed and modernized to better serve taxpayers." If passed it would, among other things, bar the IRS from hiring private debt [...]

CANBERRA, Australia — Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush won his defamation case on Thursday against a Sydney newspaper publisher and journalist over reports he had been accused of inappropriate behavior toward an actress.The 67-year-old Australian had sued The Daily Telegraph's publisher and journalist Jonathon Moran over two stories and a poster published in late 2017.Australian Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney [...]