15 Individuals Convicted, Sentenced in Heroin and Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy
The fifteenth and final defendant arrested, charged and convicted for leading or participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that repeatedly arranged for and supervised multi-kilogram shipments of heroin and More...
How Are Drug Laws Changing Across the US in 2019?
A law passed by the federal government is only as functional as a state’s agreement to enforce it. That’s why laws passed at the federal level can often have little to no effect on state jurisdictions. More...
Rhode Island Man, Matthew Haviland Arrested for Threatening Massachusetts Professor
A Rhode Island man was arrested today and charged with sending a series of violent and threatening emails to a college professor in Massachusetts and to a professional school at the university where the professor More...
Boston Children’s Hospital and Lifespan’s Hasbro Children’s Hospital Sign Alliance Agreement to Broaden Access to Pediatric Complex Care
Boston Children’s Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital have signed an agreement to identify areas of care for children and adolescents in which a formal collaboration will enhance the organizations’ More...
New England’s first in-utero spina bifida surgery performed at Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital, through their joint Fetal Treatment Program of New England, have performed the first open fetal surgery of its kind in the Northeast – microscopic More...
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to sell out Internet to government control
In his recent Washington Post editorial Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for regulation for “harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.” Zuckerberg’s proposal appears More...
Police Officer, Matthew Riley Sentenced for Transferring Obscene Material to a Minor
A former police officer who admitted to engaging in sexually explicit discussions via social media and text message with a 15-year-old girl and transferring obscene material to her while employed by the Narragansett More...
Rhode Island Man, Louis Coleman Charged with the Kidnapping of Jassy Correia
Louis Coleman III has been charged today in federal court in Boston with the kidnapping of Jassy Correia, who had been missing since Feb. 24, 2019. Coleman, 32, of Providence, R.I., has been charged with one count More...
Democratic Senators won’t support ‘born alive’ bill to the infanticide that Gov Ralph Northam described
Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island did not mince words as he expressed his horror after Democrat U.S. senators voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act, designed to protect children born More...
Catholic Medical Association condemns New York’s new abortion laws, calls on Catholics to demand action from state lawmakers
The Catholic Medical Association resolutely condemns the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), signed into New York law by Governor Andrew Cuomo in January—as well as “copy-cat” states which have introduced similar More...
‘Boss of Bosses’, Juan Valdez Sentenced in International Drug Trafficking Operation
Juan Valdez, 51, of Milton, Mass., identified in court as the “boss of bosses” of a large scale international drug trafficking operation that repeatedly imported multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine from More...
Chambersburg Man, Keanu Davone Sentenced 10 Years for Sex Trafficking a Minor
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Keanu Davone Martinez, age 22, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on November 1, 2018, by Chief U.S. District More...
WWE RAW Results and Review October 22 2018 : Bowen’s Botches and Bodyslams
WWE Monday Night RAW is Live from Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Finn Balor will face Bobby Lashley, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre will defend the RAW Tag Team Championships against Seth Rollins More...
Daniel Frisiello pleads guilty to sending threats, white powder to Vanessa Trump, Donald Trump Jr
A Beverly man pleaded guilty today in connection with mailing threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to high-profile individuals, law enforcement officials and others. Daniel Frisiello, 25, pleaded More...
Emmanuel Miamen charged by FBI after social media threats, selling AR-47 rifles
A Providence man arrested a week ago on federal indictments charging him with unlawfully selling four firearms, including two AR-47 assault rifles, was re-arrested yesterday and ordered detained in federal custody More...
Valentine’s Day bank robber, Efrain Delacruz, sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison
A Providence man who admitted to robbing a Providence bank as it was closing for the business day on Valentine’s Day in February 2017 was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison. Efrain Delacruz, 35, previously More...
Rhode Island: FBI crackdown on firearms, gang violence leads to 26 indictments as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods
Twenty-six individuals have been indicted and more than two-dozen firearms, including three AK-47 and two AR-15 assault rifles, along with significant quantities of heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine More...
Former Rhode Island Democrat State Senator James Doyle pleads guilty to 31 counts of bank fraud, bogus tax returns
Former Rhode Island State Senator and businessman James E. Doyle, III, 46, of Pawtucket, today pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to thirty-one counts of bank fraud and one count each of filing More...
Texas tops list of ‘annual Fall Allergy Capitals’ report to highlight allergy hot spots
Today, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), the leading patient advocacy organization in the U.S. representing 60 million Americans with asthma or allergies, released its annual Fall Allergy Capitals™ More...
Brown University censors their professor’s transgender study, shutting down gender dysphoria questions
Brown University removed a news story on a study conducted by one of their own researchers, a study on the rise in transgenders, particularly the phenomenon called “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”: gender dysphoria More...
