Rhode Island’s first Secretary of Housing resigned on Wednesday, and Governor Dan McKee accepted Josh Saal’s resignation.… MORE
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Court weighs tossing Boston marathon bomber's death sentence
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorney urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the 29-year-old’s death sentence because of juror misconduct claims just months after it was revived by the nation’s highest court.… MORE
Air travel across US thrown into chaos after computer outage
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or cancelled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Wednesday. The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage…… MORE
Police dig through trash for clues in woman's disappearance
Investigators will inspect several items they found at a Boston-area trash processing facility to determine if they are connected to the disappearance of a Massachusetts woman, authorities said Tuesday.… MORE
Senators Reed and King visit Ukraine, meet with President Zelenskyy
Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Angus King (I-ME) made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Friday, where they met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and received a briefing on the country’s resistance to the 2022 invasion by Russian forces.… MORE
Providence man who shot officer gets 40 years behind bars
A man who shot and injured a Rhode Island police officer during an exchange of gunfire outside a laundromat in 2019 has been sentenced to serve 40 years in prison.… MORE
First woman elected Massachusetts governor sworn in
Maura Healey, the first woman and first open member of the LGBTQ community to be elected governor of Massachusetts, was sworn into office at the Statehouse Thursday, pledging to lead “with empathy and with equity.”… MORE
'Gut-wrenching': Rising star state lawmaker killed in crash
A Connecticut state representative was killed overnight when a wrong-way driver crashed head-on into his vehicle as he was returning home from the governor’s inauguration ball. … MORE
Former RI governor and US attorney Lincoln Almond dies at 86
Lincoln Almond, a former two-term Republican governor of Rhode Island and longtime U.S. attorney in the state has died. He was 86.… MORE
Democrat Dan McKee sworn in as Rhode Island's governor
Democrat Dan McKee was sworn in for his first full term as Rhode Island’s governor Tuesday, saying he has never believed more strongly in the state’s future.… MORE
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