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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teacher in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah was placed on administrative leave after she forced a Catholic student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead.William McLeod, 9, had just returned to his school near Salt Lake City after attending Catholic Mass when his fourth-grade teacher called the ash marking "inappropriate" and gave him a hand wipe to clean it off in front of his classmates, grandmother Karen Fisher said.At [...]

WARWICK — The police are seeking the public's help identifying a man who's suspected of passing more than $6,000 in counterfeit checks at two banks last month.The Warwick police published several surveillance photos of the man, who they said had a fake driver's license that matched the information of the person on whose account the checks were drawn.On Feb. 1, the man cashed a bogus check for $3,500 at the Webster Bank in North Kingstown, and then cashed another bogus [...]

Former WPRI news anchor Karen Adams has made a $1-million commitment toward her endowment to support female students at the University of Rhode Island Harrington School of Communication and Media, according to a news release from URI.The Karen L. Adams Scholarship in Communications, established in 2016, benefits junior or senior female students from Rhode Island who maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher.Adams’ gift is “both an inspiring gesture of generosity and a [...]

The United States added just 20,000 jobs in February, significantly below expectations of a 180,000 gain, and a sign that the job market might be beginning to cool. The unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.8 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday. Economists did not immediately panic as hiring has been strong in recent months and they do not see one weak number as a signal of an imminent recession. But the disappointing February figure comes as [...]

When his wife of four years began talking about divorce, Keith Tyrone Smith sought help, according to police charging documents viewed by The Baltimore Sun.Only the 52-year-old Aberdeen man wasn't seeking marriage advice — he wanted help to kill his wife, a friend told police.Baltimore police wrote that Smith's close friend, Donnell Morgan, told detectives that Smith had asked his own brother for assistance in the plot."Keith Smith asked him to get rid of [...]

PROVIDENCE -- A pedestrian was injured after being hit by a car Friday morning in Providence.City police said the pedestrian, 66, was crossing Hartford Avenue at Bodell Avenue when the car, driven by a 43-year-old Providence man, struck her at about 6:30 a.m. The driver had the green light when the pedestrian was crossing, police said.The pedestrian was taken to Rhode Island Hospital for injuries that aren’t considered life-threatening.

Would you trade a one-time hour of sleep loss in exchange for an entire season of later sunsets? You won't have much choice in the matter Saturday night. After four months, we're set to return to daylight saving time. We'll turn our clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, effectively making it 3 a.m. (So don't schedule any important meetings at 2:30 a.m., because that time won't exist Sunday. It's also not a great time for a meeting anyway.) We lose an [...]

Jeff Jackson's latest book, “Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel,” has an A side and a B side like a vinyl album, offering twin narratives of the same events: an epidemic of musicians being murdered onstage.

PROVIDENCE — Matthew Riley lived multiple lives.By day, he worked as the canine officer for the Narragansett Police Department. By night, he was a devoted husband and father of two children.But behind closed doors, Riley transformed into an online predator, sharing lurid messages as well as photos and videos of his genitalia with a 15-year-old girl in Nebraska.And on March 26, Riley, 52, of 30 Orchard Ave., Narragansett, will begin serving a 21-month sentence for [...]

The new sexual assault charges against a former Boy Scout assistant Catholic chaplain involve three alleged victims, including two who were 13 or younger, according to court records.James Glawson, now 74, of 101 Widow Sweets Road in Exeter, was arraigned on eight new counts of first-degree sexual assault Wednesday.In the new charges, state police allege Glawson sexually assaulted two people age 13 or under by force and coercion, and sexually assaulted another person by force [...]