WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA to Provide Nearly $1 Million to Mid-Atlantic States to Protect Beachgoers from Bacteria PHILADELPHIA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will provide to the states of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia a total of $962,000 in grant funding to monitor water quality at coastal and Great Lakes beaches and to notify the public if elevated levels of illness-causing bacteria make  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 30 -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion on May 28, 2025: * * * State v. Chandanoeuth Hay. Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Robinson, Lynch Prata, and Long, JJ. OPINION Justice Robinson, for the Court. The defendant, Chandanoeuth Hay, appeals from a June 9, 2023 judgment of conviction and commitment following a jury trial held in the Providence County Superior Court. The defendant was charged with ten counts stemming from a shooting th  more