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SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The police are investigating a single-car crash Monday evening on Commodore Perry Highway that left the driver trapped inside the car for 40 minutes while first-responders worked to extricate her.The crash at about 4:45 p.m. occurred just north of Green Hill Beach Road when the 2013 Hyundai Sonata driven by Lauren Pandora, 25, of Charlestown, veered off the road and struck a guardrail, according to a news release from Capt. Alfred E. Bucco III.Pandora, [...]

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — A University of Rhode Island shark researcher has named a new species of shark, the Laila’s lantern shark, after his 17-year-old daughter.Researcher Bradley Wetherbee, of Lincoln, named the species, which was captured off the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands nearly 30 years ago, after his daughter, Laila Mostello-Wetherbee, according to a press release from the university.The sharks were inadvertently captured by scientists with the National Marine [...]

SOMERSET — A 65-year-old Pawtucket woman died Tuesday morning when her car left I-195 westbound and crashed into the median.State Police at the scene said the woman was ejected from her car.The driver of the Jeep Grand Cherokee who was killed has been identified as Judith Wright, 65, of Pawtucket.The car went off the road at 6:40 a.m. at the Lees River Avenue exit from the highway. It was hidden from view by the brush in the center of the median.State [...]

PROVIDENCE — Ward 10 City Councilman Luis Aponte filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Friday, claiming that he owes $300,000 to Cost Realty Inc., a Lincoln-based real-estate development company owned by state Rep. Gregory Costantino.The debt is tied to a years-long legal dispute between the city of Providence and Costantino’s business. [...]

NEW YORK — Jenna Bush Hager better get her wine glass ready.NBC appointed her Tuesday as co-host of the "Today" show's fourth hour with Hoda Kotb, and she'll replace Kathie Lee Gifford in that role in April.Kotb and Gifford were successful pioneers in expanding "Today," with an irreverent hour where glasses of wine were often kept close by.The daughter of former President George W. Bush has been [...]

PROVIDENCE — Supt. Christopher N. Maher is leaving Providence after four years, saying he wants to spend more time with family, but state education Commissioner Ken Wagner said what really drives away superintendents are the layers of bureaucracy that keep them from doing their jobs.

PROVIDENCE — James M. Manni, a retired state police major and former town manager of Narragansett, moved a step closer to becoming superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police — a job he said he's spent his life working toward.

More than 100 military personnel of the Rhode Island National Guard’s 143rd Airlift Wing have flown to an unnamed forward operating base in Southwest Asia to support military operations in Afghanistan, according to the Guard.

NEWPORT — Reality TV dating game "The Bachelorette" is planning to film some of its 2019 series at multiple locations around the city from March 21-31.NZK Productions, the Los Angeles company behind the long-running reality series, is requesting the City Council's permission to film.In the show, the bachelorette, her bachelor suitors and other cast members will stop at the Black Pearl and the Clarke Cooke House and walk around Bannister’s Wharf and [...]

PROVIDENCE — A 45-year-old man has been charged with driving under the influence after police say his truck struck 41 vehicles in the area of Elmwood Avenue Tuesday afternoon."It appears at this point that we have several vehicles hit by this one striking vehicle," Police Chief Hugh T. Clements said, adding that police are now compiling a "lengthy report" due to the number of cars hit.The incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. when the driver, identified as Christopher [...]