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Lincoln Chafee Files To Run For President In 2020 As A Libertarian

Lincoln Chafee Files To Run For President In 2020 As A Libertarian

Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican Senator and Democratic Governor of Rhode Island, has announced that he is seeking the Libertarian Party’s 2020 nomination for president, CBS News reports. Along with Socialist Howie Hawkins, Chafee is the second person from a major third party to have declared a run for the Oval Office in 2020. According […]

4y ago

Taylor Swift’s Home Broken Into By Polite Suspect, 26, Who At Least Took His Shoes Off

Taylor Swift’s Home Broken Into By Polite Suspect, 26, Who At Least Took His Shoes Off

A man broke into pop star Taylor Swift’s mansion in Rhode Island on Friday, and police say the 26-year-old suspect removed his shoes upon entering in an attempt to be polite. According to a report Wednesday from NJ.com, 26-year-old Richard J. McEwan, of Milford New Jersey, is the third man who has attempted to enter […]

5y ago

Rhode Island Politician Spells Out N-Word On Stage As Audience Cheers

Rhode Island Politician Spells Out N-Word On Stage As Audience Cheers

A Rhode Island politician yelled out the N-word on-stage, one letter at a time, at his opponent during a contentious debate, TMZ is reporting. Alan Gordon, representing the Compassion Party, is running against Peter Neronha in the race for Attorney General. Gordon is a pastor of a church that considers marijuana use a sacrament. And […]

6y ago

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Says FBI Report On Kavanaugh Deserves To Be ‘Sent Back For More Work’

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Says FBI Report On Kavanaugh Deserves To Be ‘Sent Back For More Work’

The FBI has concluded its report on Brett Kavanaugh regarding allegations made against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who said that the Supreme Court nominee assaulted her when the two were both in high school. And while Republicans seem to be content with the findings, many Democrats have openly expressed qualms with the investigation […]

6y ago

Rhode Island Police Shut Down Lemonade Stand, Citing City Ordinance For Commercial Vendors

Rhode Island Police Shut Down Lemonade Stand, Citing City Ordinance For Commercial Vendors

Police officers in Newport, Rhode Island, shut down a lemonade stand on Sunday, stating the two children running it were violating a city ordinance set for commercial vendors. The stand was operating along the Cliff Walk, a popular tourist spot. The Cliff Walk Commission put the ordinance in place to keep the location free from […]

6y ago

Mega Millions Jackpot Expected To Climb To $500 Million After No Winners In Friday’s Drawing

Mega Millions Jackpot Expected To Climb To $500 Million After No Winners In Friday’s Drawing

Those dreaming of a life-changing lottery win had better set their sights on the upcoming Mega Millions jackpot, which is slated to reach an estimated $493 million according to CBS via Valley News Live – a whopping amount indeed. With no winner having come forward for Friday’s most recent drawing, the jackpot only increases even […]

6y ago

Mysterious Object Under Water At Rhode Island Beach Spawns Bizarre Theories As It’s Excavated

Mysterious Object Under Water At Rhode Island Beach Spawns Bizarre Theories As It’s Excavated

What is it? This is a question that sparked the curiosity of some Rhode Island locals this week, prompting them to hire a contractor to dig up an object embedded in the ocean floor just off the beach. The large object was buried in the sand under about six feet of water, and its shimmering […]

7y ago

97-Year-Old Twins Die Together After Falling Outside Home In Freezing Weather

97-Year-Old Twins Die Together After Falling Outside Home In Freezing Weather

Twin sisters Martha Young Williams and Jean Young Haley, both 97, died together tragically on the same day, just about 25 feet from each other, after they both fell and became stranded in freezing temperatures outside Haley’s Rhode Island home. The Barrington Police Department said that the 97-year-old twin sisters, both found unresponsive on Saturday […]

7y ago

Taylor Swift Fan Trespasses On The Celebrity’s Rhode Island Mansion To Propose?

Taylor Swift Fan Trespasses On The Celebrity’s Rhode Island Mansion To Propose?

A Taylor Swift fan reportedly showed up in front of the singer’s mansion in Westerly, Rhode Island on Wednesday. The fan, who TMZ did not identify by name, claimed that he had an appointment with the star. Here are the source’s exact words. “Taylor’s security team first stopped him at her gate and called police, […]

8y ago

Super Tuesday Results: Hillary Clinton Seals The Deal With Democrats & Donald Trump Sweeps [Video]

Super Tuesday Results: Hillary Clinton Seals The Deal With Democrats & Donald Trump Sweeps [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LP3CCxXZZM The nickname “Super Tuesday” — while traditionally belonging to the first Tuesday in a presidential primary season which follows the designated early races (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina) — has entered into more general usage, with various members of the political media using it to describe any Tuesday that contains more than […]

8y ago

Victoria ‘Vickie’ Cushman, Scott Hornoff: ID’s ‘Scorned’ Spotlights Sex Affair And Former Cop’s Wrongful Conviction

Victoria ‘Vickie’ Cushman, Scott Hornoff: ID’s ‘Scorned’ Spotlights Sex Affair And Former Cop’s Wrongful Conviction

Vickie Cushman, aka Victoria Cushman, had an affair with married cop Scott Hornoff, who was later accused of murdering her in her Rhode Island apartment many years ago. And tonight, Investigation Discovery’s crime show, Scorned: Love Kills, will air their case in detail. The episode, which is titled “Blunt Force Drama,” reenacts the case of […]

8y ago

Ex-Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci Dies Just Weeks After Proposing To 30-Something Model

Ex-Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci Dies Just Weeks After Proposing To 30-Something Model

Former Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci died on Thursday morning after being rushed to a local hospital on Wednesday night. According to WPRI, Attorney Artin Colonian confirmed that Cianci died at 9:40 a.m. at Providence’s Miriam Hospital. Cianci, 74, was taping his weekly television show, On the Record with Buddy Cianci, at WLNE-TV […]

8y ago

‘Mrs Doubtfire’ Stunt Leads To Resignation Of Cranston, R.I. Official

‘Mrs Doubtfire’ Stunt Leads To Resignation Of Cranston, R.I. Official

While it seemed like a good idea at the time – getting a man to dress like a woman Mrs. Doubtfire style, all in a good cause and for the camera – things went horribly wrong. Now the Cranston, Rhode Island Director of Elder Affairs has had to resign after her efforts to aid the […]

8y ago

Providence’s ‘Dancing Cop’ Plans To Sue Everybody, Claims He’s Not A Racist

Providence’s ‘Dancing Cop’ Plans To Sue Everybody, Claims He’s Not A Racist

The “Dancing Cop” of Providence will have to hang up his dancing shoes this holiday season. Tony Lepore, the fancy-footed police officer who directs traffic there, was fired last month, and now a neighboring city has booted him from a planned holiday performance on their streets. And now, that Dancing Cop, Tony Lepore, said he’s […]

9y ago

Rhode Island Mandates That Seventh Graders Get HPV Vaccine, But School Committee Fights Back

Rhode Island Mandates That Seventh Graders Get HPV Vaccine, But School Committee Fights Back

The Coventry School Committee introduced a resolution to ask Rhode Island’s Governor, Gina Raimondo and the RI Department of Health, to rescind the state’s mandate requiring all seventh graders to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) with the Gardasil or Cervarix vaccines. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. Committee Member James Pierson, who introduced the […]

9y ago

Two High School All-Star Football Games Erupt Into Brawl [Video]

Two High School All-Star Football Games Erupt Into Brawl [Video]

A West Virginia high school all-star football game turned from a friendly competition into a brawl, ending the competition with 9:14 before the end of the contest. The video, captured by a local newspaper, is available by clicking here. What should be upsetting to the contest’s organizers is that this is the second straight year […]

9y ago

Rhode Island Beach Explosion Injures Woman, Sends Her Flying Onto Rock Jetty

Rhode Island Beach Explosion Injures Woman, Sends Her Flying Onto Rock Jetty

A mysterious freak explosion rocked a Rhode Island beach Saturday morning, injuring at least one woman as the violent beach explosion blew up through the sand and threw her through the air. The Rhode Island beach explosion occurred on Salty Brine Beach forcing the beach to be evacuated as police and fire fighters scoured the […]

9y ago

Hooking Up Through Your Phone Greatly Increases Your Chances Of STDs In This State

Hooking Up Through Your Phone Greatly Increases Your Chances Of STDs In This State

Casual hookups in general probably aren’t considered the safest sex, and of course not if the sex is unprotected. But a recent surge of HIV, gonorrhea, and syphilis cases left one state scrambling to try to pinpoint the cause in order to educate the public. It turns out the initial medium was something just about […]

9y ago

Old And Peculiar Laws In Rhode Island May Not Last Much Longer

Old And Peculiar Laws In Rhode Island May Not Last Much Longer

If you live in Rhode Island and you’ve been taking home unlimited amounts of seaweed from the beach to fertilize your garden in Barrington, you may be breaking an old but still technically enforceable law. According to the Associated Press, Rhode Island State Librarian Thomas R. Evans constructed a list of Rhode Island’s old “strange […]

9y ago

Beheading Of RI Elementary School Students Threatened, Police Receive ‘Chilling’ Warning Letter

Beheading Of RI Elementary School Students Threatened, Police Receive ‘Chilling’ Warning Letter

An anonymous letter threatening the lives of elementary school students in three Rhode Island communities was sent to Johnston police on Tuesday, with the contents of the letter under wraps until today. On Wednesday, officials told NBC 10 that the letter stated that a “beheading is planned” in the cities of Johnston, Warwick, and Cranston. […]

10y ago

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