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Governor McKee Announces Tractor-Trailer Travel Ban, State Government Closure Ahead of Tuesday Storm
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Governor McKee Announces Tractor-Trailer Travel Ban, State Government Closure Ahead

LPR News February 13, 2024

Governor Strongly Urges Rhode Islanders to Stay off the Roads During Snowstorm PROVIDENCE, RI – Ahead of tomorrow’s winter storm, Governor Dan McKee today signed an executive order implementing a tractor-trailer travel ban and closing State government on Tuesday. The Governor is also strongly urging Rhode Islanders to stay off the roads, especially between 9 a.m. and 6 […]Read More

Fortuitous Partners and Public Partners Close on Financing for Tidewater Stadium
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Fortuitous Partners and Public Partners Close on Financing for Tidewater

LPR News February 9, 2024

Stadium will be the anchor of broad transformation in Pawtucket; Stadium on track to open for 2025 USL season PAWTUCKET, RI – The City of Pawtucket, the Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency, Rhode Island Commerce, and Fortuitous Partners have closed on all aspects of funding for the multi-purpose stadium at Tidewater Landing, including the bonds, private debt […]Read More

Mayor Smiley to Induct Three Community Leaders into the City’s Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hall of Fame
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Mayor Smiley to Induct Three Community Leaders into the City’s

LPR News February 5, 2024

Chief Judge Frank Caprio, Derek Earl Hazard Jr. and Helen Baskerville-Dukes will be Inducted in the 21st Annual Hall of Fame PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Brett P. Smiley will join members of the Providence City Council, Providence Human Relations Commissioners and community members to induct Chief Judge Frank Caprio, Derek Earl Hazard Jr. and Helen […]Read More

Whitehouse Details How the Supreme Court’s Billionaire Gifts Program Undermines Public Corruption Cases
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Whitehouse Details How the Supreme Court’s Billionaire Gifts Program Undermines

LPR News February 3, 2024

Washington, DC – In case you missed it, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) published an op-ed in Law 360 detailing how recent ethics revelations at the Supreme Court dovetail with the Court’s line of cases undermining prosecution of public corruption cases.   “A line of precedent has emerged at the court that undermines public corruption prosecutions. As a former prosecutor […]Read More

Reed Statement on U.S. Military Strikes Against Iranian Proxies
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Reed Statement on U.S. Military Strikes Against Iranian Proxies

LPR News February 3, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, United States military forces conducted dozens of airstrikes against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. strikes were carried out in response to an unmanned aerial drone attack in northeast Jordan that killed three U.S. servicemembers and wounded dozens more. Following the […]Read More

Providence Police seized $1,2 million dollars in cash, drugs and guns
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Providence Police seized $1,2 million dollars in cash, drugs and

LPR News February 1, 2024

Mayor Smiley and Colonel Perez announce the apprehension of ten individuals and seizure of over $1 Million as a result of investigations into narcotics distribution throughout the City Providence, RI: Over the past several weeks, members of the Providence Police Department Narcotics Bureau and Intelligence and Organized Crime Bureau have conducted numerous investigations into individuals involved […]Read More

RIDE Receives $5 Million Federal Grant in Support of School Infrastructure Investments
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RIDE Receives $5 Million Federal Grant in Support of School

LPR News January 26, 2024

U.S. Department of Education funding from the Supporting America’s School Infrastructure (SASI) grant program will allow the continued improvement of school facilities and equitable learning environments PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Dan McKee and Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green announced the agency received nearly $5 million in school infrastructure grant funding through […]Read More

Senate passes Quezada legislation that would renew the requirement of traffic stop racial data collection
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Senate passes Quezada legislation that would renew the requirement of

LPR News January 25, 2024

STATE HOUSE — The Senate today passed legislation introduced by Sen. Ana B. Quezada (D-Dist. 2, Providence) that would require the statewide collection and analysis of data about the races of drivers stopped and searched by police. The bill (2024-S 2137) would amend the Comprehensive Community-Police Relationship Act of 2015 to require an annual study on […]Read More

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