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The event was the fourth and last one in a series organized by Youth In Action, with the help of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Temple Beth-El and the Rhode Island Council for Muslim Advancement.

A dual-language program at a Providence elementary school points to the future. Students are immersed in Spanish for one-half of the day; the other half is in English, and the immersion begins in kindergarten.

Rhode Island Kids Count, a children’s policy organization, on Monday released its 25th annual factbook, which provides a statistical look at the issues affecting child welfare in Rhode Island.This year’s factbook contains new data on childhood obesity and shows that 35% of Rhode Island children between the ages of 2 and 17 are either overweight or obese.

Grammy-winning duo Dan + Shay solidified themselves as the hottest group in country music with multiple wins at the Academy of Country Music Awards, where Keith Urban was named entertainer of the year and Kacey Musgraves won three honors.Urban won the top prize Sunday with his ninth nomination for the award, besting Chris Stapleton, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean, who held the title the last three years."Baby girl, I love you so much," Urban said, looking to his [...]

Five suspected poachers entered Kruger National Park in South Africa last week to kill rhino living there, according to authorities. Only four of the men left alive. The fifth was killed by an elephant and later "devoured" by a pride of lions, park officials said in a statement. "Entering Kruger National Park illegally and on foot is not wise, it holds many dangers and this incident is evidence of that," said Glenn Phillips, managing [...]

EAST PROVIDENCE — The Haven United Methodist Church may strike people as an odd place to present a conference on the history of baseball. Yet local historians gathered there Saturday afternoon to listen to Francis Leazes speak about Kinsley Avenue and the Titanic."I cannot drive by the corner of Kinsley and Acorn without thinking about the Titanic," the Rhode Island College professor of political science and public administration told about 20 attendees at the lecture, "Extra [...]

Harvard University has launched an investigation after the Boston Globe reported that the school's legendary fencing coach received almost double the asking price for his suburban home from a Maryland businessman not long before the man's son was admitted to the school. The Globe story, "He bought the fencing coach's house. Then his son got into Harvard" - [...]

PROVIDENCE — A Providence man described by authorities as a member of the Hanover Boyz street gang has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.The Cranston police arrested Anthony Washburn, 33, in July 2018 during a traffic stop, when officers seized from his vehicle a firearm and a stamp collection that had been reported stolen from a Cranston home, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman. The police [...]

PROVIDENCE — A Provincetown, Massachusetts, man was sentenced to three years' supervised release and fined $20,000 after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Warwick police arrested Gregory Lee, who is now 50, after finding him passed out inside a vehicle in a retail parking lot on Aug. 4, 2017. Police said that after they [...]

PROVIDENCE — Threats and insults on social media escalated into a deadly confrontation on an East Providence sidewalk in 2016.Now a jury will decide if the killing came in self defense or with premeditation.A jury of nine women and three men began deliberations Friday afternoon in the murder trial of 31-year-old James Stevens, of East Providence. Authorities accuse Stevens, who took the stand in own defense, of viciously stabbing Jasper Williams to death Dec. 10, 2016. [...]