WATERBURY, Conn. — Robbie Parker says he can tell when conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has said something on his show about the Sandy Hook school massacre, because that’s when another round of abuse begins.
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CHARLESTOWN — Rhode Island State Police charged a 25-year-old local man with murder following the stabbing death of a woman found at a Biscuit City Road home on Monday.
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STONINGTON — At least one person sustained an injury following a boating accident Saturday afternoon near the Stonington Breakwater restaurant.
The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
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WESTERLY — More than three and a half years after a grey Saab plunged into the Pawcatuck River shortly after midnight on New Year's Day, the missing car has been located and removed.
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The growing use of cryptocurrency as a financial trading tool has led to an exponential increase in the buying and selling by everyday residents. It has also led to an increase in the number of reported scams associated with the virtual currency.
RICHMOND — A Richmond man is facing charges after a domestic case led to a brief standoff at his home involving a loaded gun before he eventually came out to turn himself in, unarmed and of his own accord.
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WESTERLY — A Connecticut man is facing charges after leading police on an approximately 20-mile chase through Westerly on Friday that began after he backed a rented U-Haul truck into a police cruiser and attempted to flee following a traffic stop.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN (AP) — A former Rhode Island high school basketball coach who authorities say for years asked male student-athletes to remove their clothes while alone with him so he could check their body fat pleaded not guilty to criminal charges Friday.
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HARTFORD — A new lawsuit has exposed a deep rift between two of Paul Newman's daughters and the late actor's charitable foundation funded by profits from the Newman's Own line of food and drink products.
NEW SHOREHAM — Authorities on the Rhode Island tourist hotspot of Block Island have voted to suspend the liquor and entertainment licenses of a beachfront resort that was the site of a brawl during a crowded music festival earlier this month that was later followed by a fight on a ferry to t…
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STONINGTON — David Motherway Jr., a longtime resident and coach in the community and a member of the town's Board of Finance, was one of two men killed in a boating crash late Friday off Latimer Point.
MALDEN, Mass. — A Massachusetts charter school where an 8th grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.”
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HARTFORD — Connecticut released data Thursday for the first time showing the race of people subjected to police use of force, a reporting practice that many states are beginning to adopt in the wake of nationwide calls for more police accountability.
WESTERLY — A medical issue had caused a driver to lose control, go through sand dunes and roll over during a one-car crash along Atlantic Avenue near the Pleasant View Inn late Wednesday morning.
WESTERLY — Members of the Westerly Town Council had violated regulations set forth in the state’s Open Meetings Act at an April 11 meeting regarding discussions and action on the Bradford School Property that was not included in the agenda, but did not do so willfully or with intent to commi…
CHARLESTOWN — A brush fire in a wooded area along the Charlestown-Hopkinton line that was discovered Sunday and contained following a response that involved mutual aid from Pawcatuck to Exeter had been burning for as long as a day before it was found, officials said.
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Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some Jan. 6 defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot, using it as a platform to drum up cash, promote business endeavors and boost social media profiles.
ALBANY, N.Y. — As part of an effort to keep illegal drugs and other contraband out of state prisons, New York is taking away one of the few pleasures of life behind bars: It will no longer let people send inmates care packages from home.
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HOPKINTON — Voters in the community will have the final say on whether recreational marijuana sales and distribution businesses will be able to set up shop in town, and any such establishment would first need to obtain a special use zoning permit.
A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.
The Rhode Island State Police is now accepting applications for the 2024 Rhode Island State Police Training Academy class.
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STONINGTON — Fundraising efforts for the long-sought Stonington Veterans Memorial Monument are nearing completion after the project received an $86,420 grant that will be funded using the town’s American Rescue Plan Act money.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Fighting back tears and finally given the chance to confront conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the parents of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting described being put through a “living hell” of death threats, harassment and ongoing trauma over t…
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CHARLESTOWN — A fire at an apartment complex on Castle Way Saturday evening has left at several people displaced and caused minor smoke damage to several apartment units, officials said.
NEW YORK — Officials in New York City declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the monkeypox virus Saturday, calling the city “the epicenter” of the outbreak.
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NORTH STONINGTON — Connecticut state troopers are cracking down on commuter lot meetups, including an investigation in town that resulted in state police arresting two and issuing numerous tickets and misdemeanor summons as a result of damage and noise.
PROVIDENCE — A North Kingstown man who state officials said had been involved in the creation and distribution of unmarked, mass produced guns known as ghost guns has been convicted of multiple counts of manufacturing illegal firearms.
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WESTERLY — Cloudy skies cast a shadow over the annual Karl E. Kenyon Smokey Bear Parade on Thursday evening, but some starting time sprinkles weren’t enough to dampen spirits as fire departments from Old Mystic to West Greenwich took part in one of the largest processions in the event’s over…
HOPKINTON — A push to seek solutions to growing financial difficulties confronting the Ashaway Ambulance Association Inc. other than taxpayer funding fell short Thursday evening as residents voted overwhelmingly to approve an injection of cash into the organization in the coming fiscal year.
WESTERLY — A Westerly woman has died and a second person suffered injuries after a car collided with the back of a pickup truck along Route 1 southbound in the area of Old Post Road early Thursday afternoon.
STONINGTON — A Charlestown man who police said chased a 12-year-old boy riding a bike in May and struck him with a car after the bicyclist had allegedly made inappropriate comments toward the man’s friends moments before was arrested Monday and faces several charges.