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Charlotte native Francis Flaherty helped save fellow crewmen on the U.S.S. Oklahoma in 1941, guiding them to safety before he died on the ship.

NEW YORK — As odd as it may seem given recent history, there was a time, not long ago, when the Rays-Yankees series was lopsided the other direction. Back when the Rays weren’t winning 75 percent of their regular season games, claiming ownership stakes in Yankee Stadium and sending the Bronx Bombers home from the playoffs. 2019 to be exact, when the Yankees won the season series for the fifth ...

In face of rider complaints, Kennedy Plaza bus plan still work in progress The plan to break up the Kennedy Plaza bus hub is still in flux and its effects on bus service unknown, the state Department of Transportation said in response to a discrimination complaint by transit and community groups. Construction of the $35-million plan to replace Kennedy Plaza with new hubs at the Providence Train Station and on Dyer Street is set to begin this summer despite opposition from numerous groups and the Providence City Council.  In January, Grow Smart RI and the South Providence Neighborhood...

Report: Too soon to tell if RIDOT downtown transit plan violates Civil Rights Act Updated at 1:27 p.m. on April 14, 2021. A REPORT filed on Tuesday by the R.I. Department of Transportation Office of Civil Rights in response to a Title VI complaint said the Providence Multi-Hub Bus System proposal is too preliminary to be found in violation of federal anti-discrimination law. /PBN GRAPHIC/ANNE EWING PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights says it is too early determine whether the state’s downtown transit proposal violates federal anti-discrimination ...

Transit and environmental justice advocates in Rhode Island have filed a formal Civil Rights Act complaint against the Rhode Island Department of Transportation for its plans to dismantle the state’s biggest transit hub, Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence. In a complaint filed on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, John Flaherty, Deputy Director of Grow Smart Rhode Island, and Dwayne Keys, President of the South Providence Neighborhood Association, allege that the “deeply flawed and harmful plan by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) to dismantle and virtually eliminate t...