A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday that he is the suspect and, in an apparent British accent, called allegations that he wasn’t giving his true name “complete hearsay.”… MORE
BOSTON (AP) — Higher wages, stronger student scores and increased housing production are some of the goals Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee promised in his annual State of the State address Tuesday. One pledge McKee made was to increase the buying power of the state’s residents in coming years by setting a goal to raise…… MORE
Parents across Massachusetts, and particularly in the state’s former industrial “Gateway Cities,” would have better access to child care and early education under a plan unveiled Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Maura Healey.… MORE
A Connecticut State Police dog killed last month while trying to subdue a fleeing suspect was posthumously honored Tuesday with the state’s first K9 Medal of Valor.… MORE
The Rhode Island native who faked his death, Nicholas Alahverdian, extradited Friday from Scotland to the U.S. to face sex assault charges in Utah, put up a fight on the tarmac in Scotland.… MORE
A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah, has been extradited to the United States, British media reported Friday.… MORE
Accuweather says Rhode Island may see four to eight inches of snow Sunday in the Providence area, higher amounts to the north and west, however snow mixing with rain to the south.… MORE
For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms off the New England coast.… MORE
Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.… MORE
Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published on Wednesday.… MORE
