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@BostonGlobe reporter covering Rhode Island (@Globe_RI) | Past: @TheMessenger, @BostonDotCom, @Milforddaily | News/Music guy | [email protected]
RI | Past: Long Island, Boston
Joined September 2012
It's (officially) my first day @Globe_RI! . Please send all Rhode Island-news tips (and things you love about RI): christopher.gavin@globe.com.
Some personal news: Thrilled to say that next month, I'll be joining @BostonGlobe as the express desk reporter for @Globe_RI!. I couldn't be more excited to be joining the incredible team the Globe has built in Providence and look forward to the stories we'll tell together.
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A juvenile, green sea turtle found stranded on Cape Cod in November is back in the Atlantic Ocean in the waters off of Rhode Island, following nearly a year of rehabilitation, Mystic Aquarium said Thursday.
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Sunflower was released on Weekapaug Beach in Westerly on Wednesday, aquarium officials said.
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A North Providence pharmacy has agreed to surrender its license and close after a review by the state DOH found an “absence of qualified staff,” expired medication, and improperly secured controlled substances during a July inspection, records show.
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The owner of AJ Pharmacy Store II agreed to surrender his license and voluntarily close, records show.
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RT @FitzProv: R.I. regulators criticized for letting country club’s unauthorized seawall stand for two years. “We need a coastal agency tha….
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“We need a coastal agency that will defend our local habitats and natural resources, not violators of the law,” Save the Bay’s Jed Thorp said.
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The Providence police union slammed an oversight panel’s report that found officers violated both city ordinance & police policy by helping ICE arrest a Honduran national. “It is simply ‘trash,'" the union said of the report.
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The union said the Providence External Review Authority “tried to fit a square peg in a round hole” in its findings regarding the July incident that involved city police and ICE.
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RIPTA board backs service reductions, despite outcry from riders, advocates.
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More than 40 of the 67 bus routes will be impacted, but jobs for drivers will be spared.
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BREAKING: Against outcry from riders and public transportation advocates, the RIPTA Board of Directors voted to approve a plan that will reduce service across much of its bus system, while stopping short short of cutting eliminating routes and cutting jobs for bus drivers.
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An employee for the City of Pawtucket who was terminated for a remark he made in a Facebook post that the mayor called “ignorant and racist” has been re-hired by the city, after an arbitrator ruled in his favor, officials said.
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“The outcome of this case is disappointing,” Mayor Donald Grebien said after an arbitrator ruled Joseph Morais, a senior project manager for the city’s engineering division, must be reinstated.
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From Mark Shanahan: Hey Taylor Swift, why not tie the knot at your place in Rhode Island?.
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The pop star's oceanside mansion in Watch Hill should be Taylor and Travis's wedding destination. Hear us out.
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RT @j9weisman: This just in. Unsurprisingly, Rhode Island's congressional delegation is displeased over timing of U.S. Labor Secretary Chav….
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RT @FitzProv: Cranston Council president, council’s lawyer step down over romantic relationship -- Rhode Map by @DanMcGowan .
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The shakeup is significant because Council President Jessica Marino has long been considered one of the Democrats’ best options to win back the mayor’s office.
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RT @FitzProv: 🎙️Podcast: Newscast about a sea creature now part of RI lore. On the #RIReport podcast, former @wpri12 reporter Sean Daly rec….
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On the RI Report podcast, former WPRI-12 reporter Sean Daly recounts his “Mother, Mother Ocean” report, and Frog & Toad’s Asher Schofield explains why he’s selling T-shirts and posters of this iconic...
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The Haversham, a 19th century property now home to a tavern and event space in Westerly, R.I., has new owners who say they’ll continue its history as a public establishment.
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“We fully intend to continue the well-established tradition of good food, good drink, and hometown hospitality,” said John Bellone on behalf of his family, which now owns the 19th century establish...
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This just fell on me while working in Newport. It’s happening folks.
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NEW: A Rhode Island prosecutor who told a police officer he would “regret” arresting her as she was taken into custody in Newport earlier this month, as recorded in a now-viral body-camera video, pleaded no contest to a trespassing charge on Wednesday.
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Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, currently on unpaid leave, declined to comment when asked if she would resign.
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Breaking: Arrested RI prosecutor Devon Flanagan Hogan pleads nolo contendre in Newport County District Court.
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In a federal lawsuit, a former municipal employee in RI alleges she was sexually harassed and subjected to a hostile working environment, citing a co-worker who sent her videos of him having sex, and a stack of pornographic magazines kept in a bathroom.
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Emily K. Spring filed the complaint against the Town of South Kingstown, alleging she faced discrimination and later, retaliation.
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A pregnant Rhode Island mother and her 6-year-old son were attacked by a man with a hammer as they were leaving their Cranston home on Saturday, according to a police report and GoFundMe campaign.
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The pair were leaving their Cranston home for a birthday celebration when they were attacked “by an unknown person,” according to a GoFundMe campaign.
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Gov. Dan McKee and RIPTA CEO Christopher Durand on Monday released a proposed “budget framework” they say will cover RIPTA’s outstanding budget deficit and avoid controversial bus route eliminations and possible driver layoffs.
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Public transit riders would instead see “fewer, more targeted service reductions informed by demand data,” the two officials wrote in a letter to the RIPTA Board of Directors on Monday,
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RT @FitzProv: Halting Revolution Wind will cost 1,000 jobs and undermine New England’s power grid, officials say. RI @GovDanMcKee notes win….
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“Beyond near-term impacts to reliability in the summer and winter peak periods, delays in the availability of new resources will adversely affect New England’s economy and industrial growth,” ISO New...
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RI AG Neronha said Monday a state prosecutor who told a police officer he would “regret” arresting her as she was taken into custody in Newport earlier this month was placed on six-month, unpaid leave. “She has a long road ahead of her," Neronha said.
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“Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan mistreated the Newport Police Department and embarrassed herself, the Office, and frankly me,” Attorney General Peter Neronha said.
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