PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 26 (TNSpol) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Brown University has established an official land acknowledgment that recognizes and honors its location within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. The acknowledgment is one of five commitments Brown is making to build understanding of the relationship between its campus community, Indigenous peoples of the region and the land on which Brown is situated. University President C more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 24 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: The federal government needs to take clear, specific action to support harm reduction centers, which have been shown to prevent drug overdoses, according to Elizabeth Samuels and Aneeqah Naeem of Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School. In a perspectives piece published in the May 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Samuels, an assistant professor of emergency medicine, and Nae more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 28 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that under the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Rhode Island school districts and other eligible school bus operators and contractors can apply to begin replacing their fleets of school buses with clean, American-made, zero-emission buses through the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new Clean School more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 27 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 26, 2022: Governor Dan McKee announced six awards totaling close to $1.5 million to the dedicated service providers addressing the homelessness crisis in Rhode Island. These grants are part of the Governor's Rhode Island Rebounds initiative and funded through American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars and the state's Consolidated Homeless Fund. These are the first round of projects aw more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 26 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 25, 2022: Governor Dan McKee today signed into law the Rhode Island Cannabis Act, legalizing and safely regulating recreational adult-use cannabis in the state. The Act includes automatic expungement of prior civil or criminal marijuana possession charges, a key provision in the Governor's original cannabis proposal to the General Assembly. Governor McKee was joined for the histor more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 27 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 26, 2022: Governor Dan McKee was joined by White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Senior Counselor to the President, Dr. Ashish Jha, to announce a new federally-supported Test-to-Treat site opening in Rhode Island, making the State and its partners the first in the nation to stand up a brick-and-mortar location where eligible Rhode Islanders can get tested for COVID-19 and t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 27 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (Nos. 20-227, 20-228): In these consolidated appeals, the plaintiffs challenged the hearing justice's ruling on the defendants' motions for summary judgment and contended that the hearing justice erred in finding that the defendants owed plaintiffs no duty of care. The Supreme Court first determined that the plaintiffs' complaint did not raise a new cause of action that required a different more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 26 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (Nos. 19-445, 19-447): In these consolidated appeals arising from two consolidated Superior Court civil actions, the Town of Johnston appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court granting declaratory judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, retired town police officers who filed suit in Superior Court seeking declaratory judgment that they were entitled to distribution of certain contributions more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 26 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (No. 20-233): The plaintiffs, Kenneth Loffredo and Michelle Loffredo, appealed from the Superior Court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants on all eight counts of the plaintiffs' third amended complaint. On appeal, the Loffredos contended that the hearing justice (1) improperly interpreted and applied G.L. 1956 Sec. 9-1-4 (the Statute of Frauds) in deciding that that statu more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 27 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (No. 21-35): The respondent biological father appealed from a Family Court decree terminating his parental rights to his daughter. He maintained that the decree should be vacated because the trial justice erred in finding that he was unfit to parent his daughter, that the Department of Children, Youth, and Families made reasonable efforts to achieve reunification, and that it was in the chil more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 27 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (No. 20-121): The State of Rhode Island appealed from a Superior Court order granting a motion to suppress statements made to the police by the defendant. The state argued that the trial justice erred in finding that the defendant was in custody at the time he made incriminating statements at the scene of an automobile accident and that the rights read to the defendant at the time of his ar more PR

LINCOLN, Rhode Island, May 27 -- The Rhode Island Department of Education issued the following news: Student voice is taking center stage in the new $5 million ARTS Initiative, launched today by Governor Dan McKee, Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) during a celebration at Lincoln High School. Under the Art Reengages Talent in All Students (ARTS) support effort, each public school district and charter school system will receive at least $10 more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, May 24 (TNSawa) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A University of Rhode Island student's independent study project that offered free locally grown food, recipes, and cooking tips to the campus community, has won the gold award for Outreach and Education from the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). The award recognizes institutional members who provide information on sustainability efforts to students and the ca more PR