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Norwegian Air said it is suspending flights with the Boeing 737 MAX, the plane that the low-cost airline uses to fly from T.F. Green Airport to Dublin.Tuesday's flights between Green to Dublin have been canceled, a spokesman for the airline said.The decision comes after two fatal crashes in five months involving Boeing 737 MAX airplanes. [...]

CENTRAL FALLS -- The Central Falls City Council on Monday repealed its youth curfew, a move applauded by the state ACLU.City Council President Maria Rivera said the council voted unanimously to nix the curfew because it was not an effective public-safety tool.“It really hasn’t changed anything in the city,” Rivera said. “I feel that we intimidate our youth by having a youth curfew. They should be able to be outside. There’s no reason for [...]

The University of Rhode Island women's tennis coach is among those charged in a sweeping college admissions bribery case.Gordon Ernst is charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. The charges are related to his time as coach at Georgetown University.URI has placed Ernst on administrative leave while [...]

PORTSMOUTH — A Portsmouth police officer and two firefighters experienced symptoms of exposure to fentanyl Sunday afternoon after responding to a reported overdose.The Portsmouth Fire Department firefighters and police officer were transported to Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts; the firefighters were released on Sunday and the police officer returned to duty Monday morning.At 1:05 p.m. Portsmouth police went to an East Main Road residence for the [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Health officials are encouraging Rhode Island residents to carry an overdose-reversal medication because of the number of opioid overdoses that occur in public places.The state Department of Health said Monday about 34 percent of the opioid overdoses emergency medical personnel responded to in 2018 occurred in public places, including streets, restaurants and beaches. That's up from 31 percent in 2017 and about 30 percent in 2016.The department urged [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who robbed a Rhode Island bank has been sentenced to four years in prison.Federal prosecutors say 36-year-old Justin Davis, of Fall River, was also sentenced Monday to three years of probation for robbing a Bank Newport branch in Tiverton in October 2017.Authorities say Davis entered the bank and handed the teller a note that read "All $100 50, Empty Draw, No Dye packs, No Alarms."The teller handed him $4,920 and he ran [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — A colossal sculpture that will give people more than 150 interconnected stairways to climb is opening to the public as part of New York City's Hudson Yards development.Vessel is a metal structure shaped like the bowl of a wine glass that will open Friday as part of the first phase of the project on Manhattan's west side.Vessel was created by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. The latticed [...]

A Providence man and 34-year-old Pawtucket woman who collected unemployment compensation while they were working will pay back more than $39,000 in restitution, Attorney General Peter F. Neronha said Monday in a news release.Both Orenda Monroe, who was employed as a certified nursing assistant for a state health-care agency; and Derrick Her, who worked for a company involved with the management of trucking fleets, made pleas in Superior Court, Providence, in February.Monroe [...]

BOSTON — Louis D. Coleman III, the Providence man charged in the kidnapping and death of a woman from outside a Boston nightclub, made his first appearance in Massachusetts federal court Monday.Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and led into court with his hands shackled behind his back, Coleman agreed for now to remain in custody on the federal charge in the death of 23-year-old Jassy Correia. Magistrate Judge M. Page Kelley told Coleman he had the right to remain silent. [...]

FALL RIVER — A Catholic priest has been placed on leave from "active priestly ministry" after adult parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Seekonk complained he sent them "inappropriate communications," the Fall River diocese announced Sunday.Rev. Mark Hession, former pastor of Mount Carmel, was placed on leave "because of conduct inconsistent with standards of ministerial behavior and in direct violation of the Code of Conduct for priests," the diocese said in a [...]