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WARWICK — The City Council's president, Steven Merolla, said Tuesday that he has been questioned by the FBI in connection with an investigation.Merolla said he could not divulge any information that he talked over with the agent or agents during an exchange that took place “several weeks back.”Merolla initially commented on the exchange during an interview on WPRO.The council president’s comment follows similarly vague remarks that Mayor [...]

WARWICK -- Rhode Islanders can receive a free teeth cleaning and oral health examination during the spring semester at Community College of Rhode Island's dental hygiene clinic in Lincoln.Appointments are two hours and can be scheduled Monday through Friday for 8 or 10 a.m. or 1 and 3 p.m. Night appointments are available at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The clinic will see patients through April.Patients do not need any type of insurance to receive treatment.Call [...]

BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — Cousins Cordarrly Jones and Demetria Jones have a hard time counting all the relatives they lost to a monster tornado that wiped out a rural community in Alabama.Their grandparents, 89-year-old Jimmy Jones and 83-year-old Mary Louise Jones, were killed in their home on a two-lane road where most everyone shares family ties.The couple's son Emmanuel Jones, a 53-year-old uncle to the cousins, is gone too. Also dead, they said, were seven cousins by [...]

PROVIDENCE -- It was 15 degrees shortly before 7 a.m., and it won't get much warmer despite mostly sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service's forecast.The high today will reach about 26 degrees in Providence, and it will feel colder, with the northwest wind blowing at 8 to 14 mph. and gusting up to 25 mph. The normal high is about 45 degrees.Tonight, the temperature will drop to about 9 degrees, and the wind chill will drop to about zero.On Thursday, expect [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Back in January, the Democrats welcomed their brash young newcomers to Congress with smiles and hugs. That was before the new colleagues dragged the party's simmering divisions over Israel out in the open.Provocative comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have thrust the Democrats into an uncomfortable debate over Israel policy a few weeks before a high-profile conference at which senior Democrats typically make a show of support for the Jewish state. [...]

CHICAGO (AP) — An emotional R. Kelly says he's being "assassinated" and denies sexually abusing women and controlling their lives.The R&B singer gave his first interview to Gayle King of "CBS This Morning" since being charged with sexually abusing four people, including three underage girls."All of them are lying," Kelly said in interview segments broadcast Wednesday. "I have been assassinated."Kelly, who is out on bail following his Feb. 22 arrest in Chicago, [...]

WASHINGTON - An 18-year-old from Ohio who famously inoculated himself, against his mother's wishes, in December says he attributes his mother's anti-vaccine ideology to a single source: Facebook. Ethan Lindenberger, a high school senior, testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, underscoring the importance of "credible" information. In contrast, he said, the false and deep-rooted beliefs his mother held -- that vaccines were [...]

PORTSMOUTH — The Town Council approved the filing of a lawsuit to challenge the legality of the state’s authority to impose tolls on the Sakonnet River Bridge during executive session on Feb. 25. The lawsuit has not been filed yet because town officials are waiting for a response from state and federal agencies, Town Administrator Richard Rainer said Tuesday. Although there is currently no toll on the bridge — which connects [...]

Their father was old and frail, ground down by his 85 years of life and hounded by cancer and dementia. He would die soon, his grown daughters Mary-Beth Tomaselli and Linda Roberts reasoned. They decided to help him make an early exit, police now say. Anthony Tomaselli's two children meticulously planned his death, authorities would later reveal. On the evening of March 6, 2015, Mary-Beth and Linda were at their father's house, a whitewashed unit in a neighborhood of [...]

Portsmouth and Middletown, which has a co-operative program with Newport, play in a conference with several Bay State teams, and the legislation would prohibit players in the seventh grade and younger from participating in tackle football.Two state representatives in Massachusetts recently presented legislation that would prohibit children in the seventh grade or younger from participating in tackle football.The bill, sponsored by Bradley Jones Jr., R-North Reading, and Paul [...]