Saying he wants nonprofits to pay their fair share to a city which has an overwhelming amount of property not subject to taxation, Mayor Brett Smiley Thursday outlined a seven-point list of priorities for legislation to go before the General Assembly this session.… MORE
The NHL Players’ Association has hired U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh as its executive director.… MORE
A third person who played a role in an internet romance scam that cheated multiple victims across the country out of a total of about $3.2 million has pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors said.… MORE
Rhode Island – based gaming giant Bally’s Wednesday proposed introducing online casino gambling on slots and table games.… MORE
The sheer size of the vessel and the shoes were what struck Robert Ballard when he descended to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1986, the year after he and his crew from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution helped find the ocean liner that struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.… MORE
An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents’ burdensome medical debt. … MORE
A man was shot to death before dawn on Sunday at a South Side home that police described as an after-hours drinking establishment, and a suspect was quickly apprehended, and charged with homicide and using a “ghost gun” in the killing.… MORE
A federal judge has ruled against a group of Taunton residents who sued the federal government in an effort to prevent the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe from building a casino in the city.… MORE
The acting chief and second-in-command of the Providence Police has been named the department’s 38th chief, and Oscar Perez becomes the first Latino in the job.… MORE
Rhode Island authorities were conducting a necropsy on a swan found shot to death Wednesday on Gaspee Point Beach in Warwick, and said that if it was found to be an intentional act, the shooting could result in prison time.… MORE
