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BRISTOL — Senators, representatives and generals spoke at the National Vietnam War Veterans Day ceremony at the Rhode Island Veterans Home on Friday afternoon. But the one who commanded the room was a combat medic who served in the conflict."As I was preparing for today, I had a whole flood of memories," said Wayne Smith, of Warwick, a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America Rhode Island State Council who recounted a recent visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in [...]

PROVIDENCE — The NCAA East Regional Men's Hockey Championship is in town this weekend, and you can expect bars, restaurants, hotels and the Providence Place mall to be packed, much to the delight of tourism officials and business owners.It's not just the college hockey tournament that has downtown buzzing. The JLC Live Residential Construction Show has been at the Rhode Island Convention Center since Wednesday, and the ACES: The Society for Editing national conference has been [...]

There’s a line in Nick Payne’s play "Constellations," now on stage at Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, that sums up its premise — "If only we could understand why we’re here."

Fredi Lopez had pleaded guilty in the stabbing death of Andres Arguijo Acosta.

The state Board of Elections has spent more than $12,000 over the last 10 months defending its decision to charge former gubernatorial candidate Ken Block $410 to fulfill a public-records request. Is the fight a matter of principle and legal precedent for the board, or an act of retaliation against a longtime adversary?

RICHMOND — Police seized crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs from a house on Main Street, Wyoming, on Thursday and arrested a man who lives there, according to a Richmond Police Department press release.The police obtained a search warrant for the house at 1152 Main St. after Sgt. William Litterio found drugs on a 17-year-old male shortly after he'd left the house, according to the police.Litterio was on routine patrol when he noticed a young male "briskly [...]

SOMERSET – The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said the major roadways near the Brayton Point Power Plant will be closed briefly starting at 8 a.m. Sunday. Travel on the Braga Bridge and Veteran’s Memorial Bridge will be stopped, and there will be a rolling roadblock on portions of I-195 westbound and Route 79 southbound due to the scheduled demolition of chimneys on Sunday at the Brayton Point Power Plant. The traffic control [...]

NEW BEDFORD — A Bristol County Superior Court judge on Friday denied a temporary injunction sought by a group of Fall River taxpayers that challenged Jasiel Correia II’s ability to maintain his office as mayor.The lawsuit, filed by a group called Ten Citizens for Fall River, was ultimately asking that a permanent injunction be granted to stop Correia from reclaiming the office of mayor. Correia was recalled, but then re-elected on the same ballot in an election last week. [...]

Leading Rhode Island researchers reacted with disappointment Friday to word that Cambridge-based pharmaceutical firm Biogen and its Japanese partner Eisai are stopping Phase 3 clinical trials of Aducanumab, a drug that had raised hopes of slowing the advance of Alzheimer’s disease.