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NEWPORT – Alex Byczko of Ontario, Canada, was sitting on the left pontoon of the catamaran, the port side, while Sandra Tartaglino of Tiverton, was on the right pontoon, starboard, as they traveled south on a port tack towards the center span of the Pell Bridge, according to a state Department of Environmental Management incident report. "Without warning a power vessel traveling west struck the sailboat on its port side, at approximately a 90-degree angle, [...]

FALL RIVER — Police are seeking information after a 38-year-old city man said he awoke early Tuesday morning with over a dozen puncture wounds and lacerations to his head, back and buttocks, according to police. The victim told police he went to the area of Barresi Heights Monday night to drop off a friend when he was hit over the head by one of two men he said confronted his friend near the intersection of Pleasant and Campbell streets, according to Detective John [...]

The veteran police officer had already pushed the sixth-grader against a brick wall and shoved her to the ground when he shouted at her to "stop resisting." Zachary Christensen, an officer in Farmington, New Mexico, had the 11-year-old pinned to the pavement. Clad in a pink sweater, she was crying as the officer at her middle school tried to wrestler her into handcuffs. "I'm not resisting," she told him. "Get off of me - you're hurting me." [...]

AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Russian military police began patrols on part of the Syrian border Wednesday, quickly moving to implement an accord with Turkey that divvies up control of northeastern Syria. The Kremlin told Kurdish fighters to pull back from the entire frontier or else face being "steamrolled" by Turkish forces.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan echoed those warnings, saying his military would resume its offensive against Kurdish fighters if the new arrangements [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The theater staging a play about the notorious late Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci says it has raised just $500 for the charity bearing his name, while collecting donations during the show's sold-out run.Trinity Repertory Company is raising money for the educational foundation during "The Prince of Providence," with solicitations in programs, collection buckets at the door nightly and Cianci's own pasta sauce for sale. These efforts had raised about $500 [...]

While Gov. Gina Raimondo considers another attempt to legalize recreational marijuana in the next legislative session, she’s already agreed in principle with several Northeast states to a coordinated approach to marijuana regulation, vaping protections and possibly taxation.Rhode Island marijuana regulators and health officials met last week in New York with the governors from New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as their counterparts from Massachusetts. [...]

NEW YORK - At two of President Donald Trump's oldest businesses - a pair of ice rinks in Central Park, which Trump has run since the 1980s - Trump Organization employees did something unusual in the past few weeks. They started removing the Trump name. Now, as skating season begins, the president's name is gone from the boards around each rink, where large red "TRUMP" signs once surrounded skaters. It is mostly gone from the desk where visitors rent [...]

PROVIDENCE -- A substitute teacher at Esek Hopkins Middle School saw a student with what looked like a BB gun, but didn’t report it until the next day, school officials said.The substitute teacher is now no longer working for the schools in Providence.Interim Providence schools superintendent Frances Gallo “took immediate action and the substitute was removed from all school assignments,” spokeswoman Emily Martineau said in an email. “After a [...]

NORTH KINGSTOWN — A 63-year-old man was killed Tuesday after his pickup truck, stopped in the breakdown lane, was struck by another vehicle on Route 403 west, according to the North Kingstown police.The police have not released the name of the man, who was the sole occupant of the GMC Canyon.According to the police, a Honda Element driven by a 40-year-old woman was traveling in the breakdown lane and struck the GMC Canyon after passing a tractor-trailer. The [...]

CRANSTON — A 32-year-old Warwick man died when the Jeep he was driving rolled over in the early-morning hours Wednesday on Route 10 in Cranston. Matthew Ross was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, south of the Garfield Avenue exit ramp, state police Capt. Darnell Weaver said in a news release. He was the only person in the Jeep, and no other vehicles were involved.Weaver said the Jeep exited the roadway, which was wet at the time, and struck the right shoulder [...]