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PROVIDENCE— The Judicial Nomination Commission this week selected 16 lawyers to interview for lifetime seats on the Superior and Workers’ Compensation Courts.For the vacancies created by the retirements of Superior Court Judges Allen P. Rubine and Michael A. Silverstein, the panel on Wednesday chose assistant state public defender Michelle M. Alves; Molly Kapstein Cote, a prosecutor turned defense lawyer who recently returned to Attorney General Peter Neronha’s [...]

Angry voices echoed through the chamber Tuesday and a challenge to House leadership was answered with a threat to have one lawmaker forcibly removed in the latest blowup over the legislature's etiquette and parliamentary protocol.

PROVIDENCE — The Providence police have gone to a downtown apartment building at 95 Chestnut St. in connection with the disappearance of a woman in Boston.The Boston police said earlier that they were looking for a Providence man wanted in the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman after she left a nightclub.Police describe Louis D. Coleman III, 32, as a suspect in the kidnapping of Jassy Correia, who disappeared after leaving the Venu nightclub early Sunday. [...]

PROVIDENCE — Gov. Gina Raimondo's attempt to levy a 10-percent surcharge on the sales price of guns and ammunition appears likely to draw a large and unhappy crowd to the Rhode Island State House on Thursday night for a House hearing on the proposal.Local gun-rights groups have asked Facebook followers to come to the State [...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has pleaded not guilty to two counts of misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution in a Florida case, according to court documents released Thursday.Kraft's attorney Jack Goldberger filed the written plea with the Palm Beach County court on Wednesday. Kraft, 77, is requesting a non-jury trial.Kraft was among hundreds of men charged in a crackdown on massage parlor prostitution and an investigation into [...]

PROVIDENCE -- A Connecticut man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison, with 9½ years to serve, after he admitted to charges in a fatal car crash, according to the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office.James Beattie, 41, pleaded no contest to driving under the influence, death and personal injury resulting; and driving to endanger, death and personal injury resulting for a 2017 crash in Foster that killed Orlando Colon, 40, of Southbridge, Massachusetts, Attorney [...]

PROVIDENCE — A Coventry woman was arrested on DUI charges after the police say she was driving the wrong way on Route 95 early Thursday morning.Nancy Alger, 26, of 43 Hunters Crossing Drive, was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and/or drugs, blood-alcohol content unknown (first offense); refusal to submit to a chemical test (second offense); and reckless driving, according to a news release from Lt. Col. Kevin M. Barry, acting superintendent of [...]

During an interview with WPRO talk show host Tara Granahan on Thursday, House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello said lawmakers — having reversed an earlier beach-fee hike only three years ago — will "probably" freeze the fees for the next several years, despite Gov. Gina Raimondo's bid to raise those fees to cover maintenance costs.

PROVIDENCE — Grown-ups sexually molested when they were children — by their local parish priests, by sports coaches, family members, even by the notorious Larry Nassar — came to the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday night to tell their horrific stories, some for the second or third time.And some were more graphic than others, including Ann Hagan Webb, the 66-year-old psychologist and sister of the Rhode Island lawmaker who introduced the legislation [...]

If the forecasts for first week of March are verified, one of the coldest weeks of the winter season, compared to normal, is on its way. At peak, it will feel more like midwinter than early spring for much of the Lower 48. "The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere is set to nose-dive into the U.S. to start March," tweeted Ben Noll, an atmospheric scientist based overseas. What that means on the ground is that large [...]