The University of Rhode Island has removed a partial Malcolm X quote from the facade of its main library 30 years after members of the school’s Black Student Leadership Group and others protested because they said the shortened quote misrepresented the fuller meaning of the civil rights leader’s message.… MORE
A Smithfield woman escaped unharmed, when a fire that broke out in the kitchen drove her from her Log Road home just before noon on Wednesday.… MORE
The owner of a chain of clinics treating substance abuse disorders in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and one of the company’s employees, were charged Thursday with cheating health insurers out of millions of dollars while depriving patients of needed services, federal prosecutors said.… MORE
Heavy snow bookended the United States on Tuesday, with a late-season storm bringing a messy morning commute to the Northeast and leaving California residents to dig out, or in some cases simply wait for help, after yet another storm.… MORE
Two people died in an early morning fire Friday that heavily damaged a home in Cranston’s Garden City neighborhood.… MORE
The 20th anniversary of the Station Nightclub fire that claimed 100 lives was a low-key event that brought a steady stream of people to the West Warwick park that rose from the ashes of one of the nation’s deadliest fires.… MORE
A convicted sex offender who spent nearly three decades in prison was arrested Thursday morning by Rhode Island State Police, charged with fraudulently using a stolen casino rewards card belonging to a woman who said she doesn’t know him.… 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
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
