“ Look right , look left , look right again .” East Greenwich police assisted eighteen kids and a gaggle of turkeys across Middle Road .
We figured out what ’ s bugging him . A Cranston man says he encountered swarms of several dozen extremely voracious Asian tiger mosquitoes in a neighborhood off Park Avenue .
But did they quarantine ? Four great white sharks were detected off Block Island , making their way to tasty seal grounds off Cape Cod .
Another breakthrough for little Rhody ! A tiny five-lined skink , discovered on Earth Day , is the state ’ s first lizard .
Talk about some bad s — t . Millions of flies invaded a Wood River Junction area , after a farmer left chicken manure out too long on land he leased from the state . One neighbor complained she caught 200,000 of the pests in traps , with no end in sight . “ It ’ s just so disgusting ,” she said .
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“ We don ’ t go away . We ’ re not going to send just one letter .”
State collection agency official Kate C . Brody , explaining efforts to get drivers in Rhode Island , Massachusetts and Connecticut to pay $ 29 million in unpaid traffic tickets racked up over twenty years .
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“ BankRI assists 15 food panties with $ 7,500 donation .”
A headline on the Warwick Beacon ’ s website . The typo , which made a guest appearance on NPR ’ s “ Wait , Wait Don ’ t Tell Me ,” was eventually fixed .
TRUE CRIME Blotter ( because truth is stranger than that other thing ...)
TRUE ! East Greenwich resident David Wagner pleaded guilty to defrauding more than thirty investors of $ 8 million and using the money to pay management fees , previous investors and personal expenses .
TRUE ! Warwick police arrested a suspect caught on video crawling along the floor through the Top of the Bay restaurant and making off with the cash register .
TRUE ! State police arrested a Warwick man twice for DUI on Valentine ’ s Day , first on I-95 at 2:26 a . m ., and then eighteen hours later , again on I-95 .
TRUE ! Warwick police arrested a North Kingstown woman for shoplifting nineteen pieces of jewelry from Hobby Lobby , after she first approached store officials for help in finding her lost keys . When the manager reviewed the store ’ s video tape , he saw the woman stuffing the stolen goods , worth $ 101 , into her sweatshirt .
TRUE ! The feds charged a Middletown man , already convicted of robbing four banks , with trying to obtain $ 4.7 million in federal pandemic relief for businesses that apparently didn ’ t exist .
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