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TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki seems to have said "sayonara."The 45-year-old Seattle Mariner star left the Tokyo Dome field in the eighth inning on Thursday night, waving goodbye to the crowd and being hugged by teammates in a three-minute walk that signaled to all his great career has ended.The Japanese agency Kyodo News reported during the game against Oakland that Ichiro would announce his retirement after it was over.Ichiro went 0 for 4. He took his spot in right [...]

The loss marks the first time in the Raimondo administration that the state lost jobs from the same month a year earlier.

PROVIDENCE — Rick Bruno opened his eyes at 6:19 a.m. on Wednesday, the day he was scheduled to testify before House and Senate committees on legislation that was spurred by his son’s death. Nathan Bruno’s birthday is 6/19. “I can’t help but think today there are no coincidences,” Bruno said before members of the Senate Committee on Education as he testified in support of the Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act. [...]

The state police announced Thursday that authorities have arrested or gotten arrest warrants for 88 people who investigators say fraudulently received public assistance benefits.The suspects got about $469,000 in public assistance over the past several years even though they had outstanding felony court warrants when they applied, state police said Thursday.People who faced those warrants, which ranged from attempted murder to robbery to drug charges, aren’t eligible to [...]

As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit. That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane, according to two people familiar with Indonesia's investigation. The next day, under command of a [...]

DARTMOUTH — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson gave it to him straight: Mr. President, the drug problem is so bad that the hospital in New Bedford sees 15 to 20 overdoses every day, on the second shift alone. The sheriff made that assertion in the Oval Office on Friday, after he and others witnessed President Donald Trump sign his first veto, blocking Congress' attempt to overturn the president's declaration of a national emergency on the southern border. [...]

PROVIDENCE — The state Supreme Court has suspended a Providence lawyer amid allegations that he spent his clients' money on golf club membership fees, airline flights, hotels and other personal expenses.The state Supreme Court on Friday agreed to immediately suspend Peter D. Leach from practicing law and to appoint the court's chief disciplinary counsel David D. Curtin as special master based on bank records that indicate a "persistent pattern" of Leach misappropriating client [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has approved an agreement for Wells Fargo Securities to pay an $800,000 civil penalty to end a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over Rhode Island's failed $75 million deal with former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios.Wells Fargo doesn't admit or deny wrongdoing under terms of the judgment entered Wednesday. Claims against a Wells Fargo employee are still pending.A Wells [...]

PROVIDENCE — A Providence man is in federal custody following the seizure of more than two kilograms of fentanyl and approximately 400 grams of heroin, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman.According to the news release, members of a Drug Enforcement Administration task force had been electronically monitoring Josimar Delacruz-Reyes, 31, in February as Delacruz-Reyes made deliveries totaling more than 100 grams of fentanyl.On [...]

WEST TISBURY — An early morning fire Tuesday at Flat Point Farm destroyed a barn and killed dozens of farm animals. The fire was called in at 5:08 a.m, according to West Tisbury police Detective Nikolaj Wojtkielo. The barn was engulfed when firefighters arrived, Wojtkielo said. The blaze killed 22 lambs, 12 sheep, two beef cattle and 50 chickens. It also destroyed 500 bales of hay, Wojtkielo said. Three [...]