Amanda Milkovits

The men are believed to have collected $230k from victims in "grandparent scams" across the country.

“The victims are smart. They are educated. They are kind. They are not foolish women. They were conned,” said Assistant United States Attorney Denise M. Barton

The Narragansett man and a local gold dealer team up in ruse that led to arrest of Canadian man now accused of money laundering and fraud.

Two Rhode Island men are accused of being high-ranking members of an organized crime ring that made $12.3 million through the wholesale of stolen health and beauty products.

More than 80 children in the care of Rhode Island DCYF are being sent to dozens of out-of-state residential treatment facilities — including some accused of abuse, neglect, and dysfunction

The North American Trading Group Inc. placed the winning bid for the foreclosed beachfront property. It’s unknown whether Mota placed a bid.

City claims committee taking up tentative settlement in eviction case against Skyline at Waterplace

“We just found out, no rumors, no nothing. Just bang, a letter in the mail,” said Donna Truppi, whose grandchild lived at the residential treatment facility for 14 months and still attends the school there

“Sadly and too often, they have been forgotten or shipped out of state to be someone else’s problem,” said Exeter State Representative Julie Casimiro. “I am beyond grateful today because that will no longer be the case here in Rhode Island.”

The girl’s mother wants to know what happened, demanding accountability from the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families, which placed her daughter in the home run by the North American Family Institute.

Although the ordinance was to take effect on Sept. 1, the town has agreed to stay its action until a hearing on a temporary restraining order on Sept. 16.

Police in Hopkinton, R.I., twice denied Joseph Francis’ applications to buy firearms because of a cyberstalking charge. But Francis’ lawyer, who is also the president of the R.I. Second Amendment Coalition, cleared the way.

Attorneys for the ACLU of Rhode Island filed the lawsuits on behalf of the families of 39-year-old Dana Leyland, 27-year-old Brian Rodenas, and Peter De Los Santos, 35, who all died within a five-month span.

Kyle Delaney, 49, of Glocester, had served on the parent advisory board for the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

More than 1,000 anonymous graves sit just adjacent to the Rhode Island Training School. The young people incarcerated there worked to give stories to those buried next door.

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families said the decision is a “pause in construction, not a termination."

Born at just 25 weeks, their son needed intensive medical care. The machines that kept him alive were meant to be used by people who could hear. The couple and Franciscan Children’s Hospital had to innovate to help the child survive.

The decision came just weeks after Tides Family Services took over management of troubled nonprofit organization.

Stephen Thomas Farrea, of Warwick, is a member of the Nationalist Social Club-131 also known as NSC-131.

Acting Child Advocate Katelyn Medeiros is widely praised by Senate Judiciary Committee, which forwarded her nomination to the full Senate Thursday.