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Rhode Island to remove residents from St. Mary’s Home for Children ‘as soon as possible’

Officials are calling an urgent meeting Thursday with foster care agencies and other groups to determine new placements for children currently living in the state-run facility.

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Seven Providence postal workers charged in mail theft ring

“This group worked as a well-organized unit,” said US Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
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‘Appalling failure’: Investigation finds R.I. has ‘routinely’ segregated children with disabilities by institutionalizing them

Rhode Island has repeatedly violated federal disability laws by over-hospitalizing children in state care who have behavioral disabilities, said US Attorney Zachary Cunha on Monday.

Providence man pleads guilty to role in fentanyl trafficking ring

The drug-trafficking organization manufactured and sold counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl to customers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Texas, and North and South Carolina, officials said.

PROTESTS
Protesters at RISD vacate campus building after threat of expulsion
Their occupation of the academic space and refusal to allow students and faculty to retrieve their work oppose our college’s mission and code of conduct,” the art school’s president wrote in an email

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R.I. House passes police reform, but without ‘George Floyd’ provision
“It’s a hell of a start,” said Representative Ray Hull, a Black police sergeant who sponsored the reform bill.

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Former RIPTA CEO Scott Avedisian pleads no contest to charge in drive-thru hit-and-run case

Avedisian, who is also the former mayor of Warwick, was sentenced to six months probation following a hit-and-run crash in a McDonald’s drive-thru in March

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R.I. leaders reach compromise on changes to police misconduct law

The proposed changes to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights meet some, but not all, of the demands by the caucus representing legislators of color. A committee vote is slated for Tuesday.

Cold Case Files

Breakthrough announced in 1989 Warwick, Mass., unsolved murder case involving severed body parts

On June 24, 1989, the severed arms and legs of a murder victim were found along Route 78 in Warwick, Mass., near the New Hampshire border.

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Seven years later, a former Providence gym teacher is headed to trial

Nearly seven years ago, an elementary school physical education teacher in Providence named James Duffy was charged with six felony counts of second-degree child molestation and one misdemeanor count of simple assault. Now Duffy is about to have his day in court.

Boston man caught in Providence after allegedly kidnapping infant daughter in Peabody

Jamaine B. Johnson, 41, was arraigned in Sixth District Court in Providence Tuesday on charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing a police officer, and being a fugitive from justice on a warrant filed in Peabody, Rhode Island State Police said in a statement.

Judge: Criminal case against coach Aaron Thomas in ‘naked fat tests’ of boys can proceed

Former North Kingstown High boys' basketball coach Aaron Thomas is facing charges of child molestation and sexual assault for his behavior during self-designed "fat tests" of naked teen boys.

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Here’s what’s going on with efforts to reform Rhode Island’s police misconduct law

For the fourth year in a row, efforts to reform Rhode Island’s Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights loom over the home stretch of the legislative session.

CRIME

Newton man agrees to plead guilty in R.I. opioid treatment fraud case

Michael Brier was the de facto owner and operator of Providence-based Recovery Connection Centers of America, which allegedly billed for opioid addiction treatment services that weren’t actually provided