For the third time in five years, the ACLU of Rhode Island has sued the City of Providence for interfering with the exercise of free speech rights on the City’s streets and sidewalks.
Today’s lawsuit was filed on behalf of Manuel Pombo, a 62-year-old local street musician (or “busker”) who has been arrested once, and threatened with arrest on numerous other occasions, for playing his saxophone on sidewalks and street corners in Providence. Commerce Corporation, Workforce Solutions of Providence/Cranston, the City of Cranston, and the Department of Labor and Training's Business Workforce Center are announcing that Nelipak Healthcare Packaging, a global provider of custom thermoformed packaging used in the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries, is holding a job fair at its US headquarters in Cranston on Tuesday, July 14, from 2 to 7 PM.
A taxpayer- and user-friendly "Pay-As-You-Go" approach to funding bridge and road upgrades in Rhode Island could save over $650 million as compared with the Governor's special-interest-friendly "bond and toll" plan, as published today in a report by the nonpartisan RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity.
Colonel Steven G. O'Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of Public Safety, announces that on Sunday, July 12th 2015, Brian S. Rutter, age 39, of 17 Pennsylvania Ave. West Warwick, Rhode Island was arrested for alleged Driving Under the Influence of Liquor and Reckless Driving after being stopped traveling the wrong way on Route 95 in the City of Warwick.
Superior Court Justice Netti C. Vogel sentenced Michael Patino (age 33) to life in prison for the October 2009 beating death of six-year-old Marco Nieves. Patino was convicted of second degree murder by a Providence County Superior Court jury on April 28, 2015.
“For nearly six years, the police and prosecutors have worked tirelessly to secure justice for six-year-old Marco Nieves,” said Attorney General Kilmartin. “There are few things as chilling as the death of an innocent child, except perhaps when that death is willfully caused by an adult who is entrusted with the child’s care. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with Marco’s family, and while today’s sentence will not end the pain they experience every day since his death, it is my sincerest hope they can take solace in knowing the defendant was sentenced to life in prison for taking Marco’s life.” |
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