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Darnisa Amante, founder and CEO of the Disruptive Equity Education Project, preaches the value of "uncomfortable" conversations in tearing down barriers of institutional racism.

BRISTOL — A 21-year old Fall River man was taken into custody by police Thursday afternoon after a string of car robberies in early March.Richard Smith, 21, of 301 Milliken Blvd., was arrested after a three-week-long investigation into a string of motor vehicle thefts that took place between DeWolf and Ansonia Avenues beginning on March 5, a Bristol Police Department news release said.Police said that one of the stolen items, a debit card, was used at a Cumberland Farms [...]

PROVIDENCE — A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 45-year-old Warwick man to 260 years in prison for violently molesting two young girls for years while filming those acts and then posting the videos on the Internet.U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell said he needed to ensure the victims that they would never again be abused at the hands of Thomas Goodman."The level of depravity is beyond comprehension," McConnell said.Goodman collapsed, falling forward [...]

Green Development and Wind Energy Development had challenged a December emergency town moratorium blocking consideration of proposals for large solar projects until February. That froze the approval process for three projects proposed by Mark DePasquale, the principal of both companies.

The Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls is again housing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, 10 years after a man’s death there led the government to end the practice.The quasi-public jail said Friday, in answer to a Providence Journal query, that on March 10 it received 133 prisoners "from the custody of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."In an emailed statement, ICE spokesman John Mohan said: "As of March 10, U.S. Immigration and Customs [...]

Referendum sparks a debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and anti-Semitism.

U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. sentenced Jason Jones, 25, to 37 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and also 24 months to be served at the same time for attempting to possess a controlled substance and possessing an 8-inch shank while detained at Wyatt, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A sailor from Massachusetts who died when the Japanese sank the Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 has been identified, military officials announced Friday.Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Roman W. Sadlowski, 21, of Pittsfield, was accounted for in December following a lengthy process that included advanced DNA and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a statement. [...]

The 2020 calendar puts Rhode Island's September primary so close to the general election the state might violate a federal deadline to get ballots to troops serving overseas. And, surging demand to vote before Election Day is swamping the state Board of Elections and city halls in cumbersome "emergency mail ballots."

PROVIDENCE — There's a bona fide fight for control of the state Democratic Party brewing this weekend.Progressive Providence state Rep. Moira Walsh announced Friday she would run for party chair as part of a group of left-leaning challengers to the state party's centrist establishment.Walsh, who has openly clashed with House Speaker [...]