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A Coventry man was arrested Saturday on charges that he made a “credible threat” to the lives of his coworkers at General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut, police there said.Edward Lesniak, 39, was arrested at JFK Airport in New York City, where he was trying to re-enter the United States, the Groton Police Department said. He worked at a location for the defense manufacturer overseas, police said.Police searched Lesniak’s home at 10 Marjorie St. in Coventry [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a foggy November morning in 2015, a heavily intoxicated man showed up before dawn at the Dupont Circle Hotel, forked over $1,200 cash for a ninth-floor penthouse suite and kept drinking. His bender continued all day.By the next morning, he was dead. Authorities concluded that he died of blunt force trauma, the result of repeatedly falling in his room and suffering at least one serious head wound.Normally, such a case would be quickly forgotten. But [...]

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Voters in Fall River are deciding whether to remove their embattled mayor from office.A recall election is scheduled for Tuesday in the southeastern Massachusetts city. Mayor Jasiel Correia declined to step down after being charged last year with defrauding investors in an app he developed. He pleaded not guilty in [...]

A new course uses themes and stories from the hit 2018 film "Black Panther" to examine concepts such as colonialism, Afro-futurism (science fiction that looks to the future with black characters at its center), non-linear storytelling and much more.

It's not just the province of journalists, politicians and activists.

Jasmin Rothermel waited for a plane to Florida at T.F. Green Airport Friday afternoon, with a tiara in her hair, wagging a magic wand, smiling and thinking about taking to the air for the first time in her life.

Sista Fire, which advocates for needs of women of color, surveyed more than 200 women on issues related to social, political, economic and health topics.

Despite solid performances from its principals, the show falters, misses mark.

Student enrollments at all three of Rhode Island's public colleges are declining, including at the Community College of Rhode Island, which has reported an upsurge in the number of recent high school graduates enrolling under a free tuition program.

BOSTON (AP) — Family and friends have gathered at a Boston church for the funeral of a 23-year-old woman who was kidnapped and killed following an outing for her birthday at a nightclub.The service for Jassy Correia was being held Saturday morning at Saint Peter Parish in the Dorchester neighborhood. A private burial was to follow.Correia, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was last seen leaving a Boston nightclub early on the morning of Feb. 24. Her body was found four days [...]