PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 12 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has established a Civil Rights Team made up of criminal and civil attorneys to bring a coordinated and focused approach to the investigation and prosecution of hate crimes and police misconduct - whether pursued criminally or civilly. Comprised of the Civil Rights Advocate in the Civil Division and a new Civil Rights Prosecution Unit in the Cr more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 8 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that the Office of Attorney General customer service center has prioritized service for state background checks for individuals needing them for employment in healthcare and education, as well as those who need them to acquire housing. The new policy was implemented to efficiently process state background checks while protecting more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 8 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Four students and recent graduates from Brown University were named to this year's classes of Marshall and Schwarzman scholars, two prestigious international scholarships that enable graduate study abroad, on Monday, Dec. 7. Class of 2020 graduate Frishta Qaderi was awarded a Marshall scholarship, which provides full funding for two years of graduate study at any university in the United Kingdom. In additio more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 9 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: After several decades of improvement, inequality in infant health is once again on the rise in the United States, a pair of Brown University researchers has found. Between 1989 and 2010, the health gap between infants born to the most socially advantaged mothers -- those who are married, highly educated and white -- and infants born to the least socially advantaged mothers -- those who are unmarrie more PR

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pennsylvania, Dec. 12 (TNSPer) -- East Stroudsburg University issued the following news release: Kimberly S. Adams, Ph.D., professor of political science at East Stroudsburg University, has been elected to the board of directors for the National Organization for Women (NOW) in Washington, D.C. She was elected to serve the Northern district which includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. Her term on  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 10 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that on December 3, a Providence woman was ordered to pay $84,106.25 in restitution to her former employer after being sentenced in Providence County Superior Court for Medicaid fraud charges. The charges stem from her role in a scheme to divert Medicaid funds into personal bank accounts owned and controlled by her and several co-def more PR

DARTMOUTH, Massachusetts, Dec. 4 (TNSRes) -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus issued the following news release: On December 2, shark research groups and government agencies from the northeastern US and Canada announced the establishment of the New England White Shark Research Consortium (NEWSRC). The consortium provides the first-ever collaboration of these entities to jointly study the white shark (Carchardon carcharias) throughout its entire northeast US-Canadian range. Wi more PR