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This is the first year that Operation Stand Down Rhode Island has set up the memorial anywhere other than Roger Williams Park in Providence. The display, which also features identifying information and photos of each service member, will remain up through Memorial Day.

Tyrone "Freaky" Williams was riding in a car with a girlfriend last July 1 when Arnold Evans Jr. fired on them. Williams tried to run but the gunman followed, continuing to shoot until Williams collapsed.

The House and Senate judiciary committees will decide whether to extend the limit for lawsuits regarding molestation of children.

The 24-room estate was more recently owned by socialite Marion "Oatsie" Charles.

PROVIDENCE — Gov. Gina Raimondo has appointed lawyer Kyle Palumbo to a seat on the nine-member Ethics Commission that has been vacant since a resignation in January.Palumbo is currently the in-house counsel and vice president of "transactional affairs" for Southern Sky Renewable Energy. He previously worked for the Shechtman Halperin Savage, and Orson and Brusini law firms, among others.Palumbo was chosen from a [...]

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CRANSTON — A Warwick man is facing charges of felony assault after, the police say, he beat another man with a bat in what appears to be a road rage incident.James Germalm, 47, of 235 Holmes Road, Warwick, is charged with three counts of felony assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of disorderly conduct after the Friday afternoon incident at the Mobil station at Park and Elmwood Avenues, according to the Cranston police.  He is receiving medical treatment and [...]

JAMESTOWN — A 36-foot-long vessel appeared to be destroyed by a fire that erupted after it pulled in near the East Ferry Landing in Jamestown, according to the Coast Guard. There were no reported injuries, officials said.A 45-foot-long Coast Guard vessel from Station Castle Hill and a fire boat from the Newport Fire Department, along with Jamestown and state officials responded to the scene.No further information about what type of boat involved was available late [...]

PROVIDENCE — The police are investigating reports of gunshots being exchanged between a maroon Acura and white pickup truck late Friday.Officers responded around 10:30 p.m. to a report of shots fired into a house at 49 Gallatin St. after a residents noticed an apparent bullet hole in her bathroom wall. According to police, a witness flagged the officer down to say  he saw a maroon Acura chasing a white pickup truck at the intersection Sumter and Emerson streets and [...]