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GoLocalProv | Sports | O For Four – PC Goes to NIT, Brown Loses at Buzzer

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March 17, 2024

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Rhode Island’s four D-I teams are not going to the Big Dance.

Sunday was a day of disappointment for the four Division I men’s basketball teams in Rhode Island.

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

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Providence College, which lost on Friday night against Marquette, sealed its fate.

The Friars needed a run to the Big East tournament final to nab an NCAA bid.

PC now waits to learn who and where they play in the NIT.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

No one had a more painful Sunday than the Brown Bears, who were leading Yale in the Ivy League Championship by four with 15 seconds left, but failing to hit free throws in the final couple of minutes cost the Bears dearly.

Matt Knowling’s one-handed floater at the buzzer lifted Yale to a thrilling 62-61 victory over Brown in the championship game.

The shot and the win sends the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament as the Ivy League’s automatic qualifier. Yale is headed to March Madness for the third time in the last four seasons.

“I just wanted to put myself by the basket in case of a miss,” said Knowling, a senior. “We were trying to get a play for someone else, but they found me. I didn’t think I was going to be that open. I work on that shot every day. I didn’t overthink it, I just let it go and it went in.”

Yale trailed by six, 54-48, with three minutes remaining but rallied. August Mahoney hit a pair of three-pointers and Poulakidas drilled one to spark the comeback. Still, the Bulldogs were down six with 27 seconds remaining.

Brown finished 13-18 on the season.

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

It was painful for the URI Rams that #6 seed Duquesne, in the Atlantic 10 tournament, went on a run and won the conference championship.

URI finished 12-20 on the season

BRYANT UNIVERSITY

Bryant had lost the semis of their conference playoff to the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

The Bulldogs finished 20-13 despite the coaching chaos, Jared Grasso’s resignation, and Phil Martelli, Jr.’s emergence.

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2 dead, 1 seriously hurt after crash on I-95 South in Warwick

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April 18, 2026

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2 dead, 1 seriously hurt after crash on I-95 South in Warwick

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Two people are dead and another person seriously hurt after a crash involving two vehicles on the highway in Warwick Saturday.

Rhode Island State Police said the crash happened around 1:34 p.m. on the ramp from Route 113 West to I-95 South.

According to police, a Hyundai SUV that was driving in the middle lane of the highway started to drift to the right, crossed the first lane, and then crossed onto the on-ramp lane. The car struck the guardrail twice before driving through the grass median.

The Hyundai then struck the driver’s side of a Mercedes SUV that was on the ramp, causing the Mercedes to roll over and come to a rest. The impact sent the Hyundai over the guardrail and down an embankment.

The driver of the Hyundai, a 73-year-old man, and his passenger, a 69-year-old woman, were both pronounced dead at the hospital.

A woman who was in the Mercedes was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital in critical condition.

State police said all lanes of traffic were reopened by 4:30 p.m.

The investigation remains ongoing.

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Judge rejects DOJ push for Rhode Island voter information

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April 18, 2026

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Judge rejects DOJ push for Rhode Island voter information

A federal judge on Friday tossed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit aiming to force Rhode Island to hand over its voter information as part of the Trump administration’s push to acquire voter data from several states.

Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy wrote that federal law does not allow the DOJ “to conduct the kind of fishing expedition it seeks here,” siding with Rhode Island election officials. She added that the DOJ did not provide evidence to suggest that Rhode Island violated election law.

McElroy, a Trump appointee, wrote that she sided with the similar decision in Oregon. That decision ruled that the DOJ was not entitled to unredacted voter registration lists.

“Absent from the demand are any factual allegations suggesting that Rhode Island may be violating the list maintenance requirements,” she said in her ruling.

Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore (D) praised McElroy’s decision. He said in a statement that the Trump administration “seems to have no problem taking actions that are clear Constitutional overreaches, regularly meddling in responsibilities that are the rights of the states.”

“Today’s decision affirms our position: the United States Department of Justice has no legal right to – or need for – the personally-identifiable information in our voter file,” he said. “Voter list maintenance is a responsibility entrusted to the states, and I remain confident in the steps we take here in Rhode Island to keep our list as accurate as possible.”

The Hill reached out to the DOJ for comment.

The DOJ called for the voter lists as it investigated Rhode Island’s compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which allowed Americans to register to vote when they apply for a driver’s license.

The DOJ sued at least 30 states, as well as Washington, D.C., in December demanding their respective voter data. This data includes birth dates, names and partial Social Security numbers.

At least 12 states have given or said they will give the DOJ their voter registration lists, according to a tracker operated by the Brennan Center for Justice.

The department stated after it lost a similar suit against Massachusetts earlier this month that it had “sweeping powers” to access the voter data and that, if states fail to comply, courts have a “limited, albeit vital, role” in directing election officers on behalf of the administration to produce the records. The DOJ cited the Civil Rights Act as being intended to unearth alleged election law violations.

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Single Dad Says Grandparents’ Rights Trial Has Cost Him More Than $500K, but He'll Do ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Keep Daughter Safe

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April 17, 2026

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Single Dad Says Grandparents’ Rights Trial Has Cost Him More Than 0K, but He'll Do ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Keep Daughter Safe

As the two-year anniversary of his wife’s death approaches, widowed single father Scott Naso is sounding an alarm to fellow parents across the country — and especially in Rhode Island, where he lives with his now 4-year-old daughter, Laila.

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