Hasbro’s third-quarter revenue performance missed Wall Street’s expectations and the company cut its full-year revenue outlook again as signs of a possible industry slowdown in toy sales heading into the holiday season weighs on jittery investors.… MORE
The decline of one of the rarest whales in the world appears to be slowing, but scientists warn the giant mammals still face existential threats from warming oceans, ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear.… MORE
The Providence municipal courtroom was renamed Friday in honor of Chief Judge Emeritus Frank Caprio, who presided over traffic cases and other disputes for 38 years and brought fame to the city with his television show “Caught In Providence” which aired around the world.… MORE
An East Providence High School student was stabbed by another student Thursday afternoon, prompting a campus lockdown.… MORE
The statewide emergency family shelter system will reach its capacity by the end of the month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey warned Monday saying the system has been expanding at an unsustainable rate to handle the demand from newly arriving migrant families.… MORE
Three years after a Christopher Columbus statue was removed from a square in Providence, the bronze cast has re-emerged, this time in a park in Johnston, about 9 miles west of the capital.… MORE
Scottish authorities have approved the extradition of an American man accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah, but his return to the U.S. may be delayed by another case in Britain.… MORE
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island will procure future wind energy projects together rather than separately as part of a joint agreement the states’ governors announced Wednesday — the first such multi-state agreement in the nation.… MORE
Warwick Mayor Frank Picozzi says Greenwood Credit Union has been awarded the naming rights to a new ice and roller skating rink proposed for a site behind city hall once occupied by the former city hall annex.… MORE
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships.… MORE
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