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Families of inmates who died by suicide at ACI file lawsuits

Attorneys for the ACLU of Rhode Island filed the lawsuits on behalf of the families of 39-year-old Dana Leyland, 27-year-old Brian Rodenas, and Peter De Los Santos, 35, who all died within a five-month span.

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R.I. ‘parenting coordinator’ accused of raping and molesting girl

Kyle Delaney, 49, of Glocester, had served on the parent advisory board for the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families.
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R.I. businesswoman carried out $10m mail sweepstakes scheme that targeted senior citizens, DOJ says

Meagan E. Shine, 47, utilized the US Postal Service to engage in predatory fraud schemes that allegedly duped the elderly and other vulnerable people into sending payments.

Two Mass. men indicted by grand jury in Rhode Island for alleged murder-for-hire plot, targeting rivals and two federal prosecutors

Elijah Melton allegedly told a witness that “members of his gang” had placed a bounty on someone they believed was cooperating with prosecutors.

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‘That one decision changed everything’ says grieving husband, days after former officer charged in fatal R.I. tricycle crash
A former Providence police officer of 34 years, Daniel Famiglietti was charged with a DUI after he allegedly struck and killed 53-year-old Linda Sherman with his Jeep last week.

Rhode Island man pleads guilty to methamphetamine trafficking, officials say
A 55-year-old Rhode Island man is the eleventh and final defendant to plead guilty in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking ring that operated in Boston and throughout New England and extended to California, officials said.

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Two ‘Rise of the Moors’ members convicted on gun charges in Middlesex court

Jamhal Tavon Sanders Latimer, who has been identified as the leader of the Rhode Island-based group, and Steven Anthony Perez were convicted by a Middlesex Superior Court jury of a total of eight charges after two days of deliberations, records show.

Stoughton man gets 11 1/2 years in prison for shipping cocaine to Mass., R.I. in air fryers, cash boxes

A Stoughton man was sentenced Thursday to 11 and a half years in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking organization that shipped cocaine from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts and Rhode Island in air fryers and cash boxes, officials said.

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Cranston, R.I., police officer under investigation for shooting at suspected shoplifters’ car

Video from Cranston Officer Kayleigh Cooper’s body-worn camera shows her shooting at the car as it drove away after the driver refused to get out

Cranston, R.I., officer fires gun at fleeing shoplifter who hit the officer with a vehicle, police say

Authorities are investigating after an officer fired a single shot at two alleged shoplifters who struck the officer with a vehicle as they fled from a traffic stop in Cranston, R.I., on Sunday evening, police said.

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Seven people arrested after brawl on Block Island Ferry dock

Police in Narragansett, R.I., received a report about 20 to 30 people “actively fighting” late Saturday. At least five of those arrested were from Massachusetts.

Convicted killer of Boston police officer pleads not guilty to alleged robbery of a woman in R.I., officials say

Joshua McCullough, 60, of Warwick, R.I., was held without bail Wednesday after pleading not guilty to violently robbing a woman outside a Rhode Island bank in March, officials said

HEALTH

Johnson & Johnson settlement includes $14.5m for Mass., $6m for N.H., nearly $7m for R.I.

The awards are part of a $700 million nationwide settlement over the company’s talcum powder products.

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Long-awaited R.I. police reform heads to governor’s desk

Some advocates argued the bill doesn’t go far enough to punish police officers who use deadly force.