Amo, a former White House aide in the Obama and Biden administrations, beat Republican Gerry W. Leonard Jr. in Tuesday’s special election to fill Rhode Island’s First Congressional District seat
The Board of Elections on Tuesday voted to review all nomination signatures submitted to place Congressional candidate Sabina Matos on the special election primary ballot in September.
The move comes nearly two and a half weeks after the board voted to r
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Cranston police captain wants his day in court on defamation suit
PROVIDENCE A Cranston police captain wants a jury to hear his allegations that he was defamed by a TV news report implicating him as a key player in the now-infamous Ticketgate scandal.
In 2014, Capt. Russell Henry sued WJAR-TV investigative reporter Jim Taricani; WJAR s news director at the time, Christopher Lanni; and Media General Operating Inc., then the owner of the station, after a news story aired naming him as one of the people who ordered a ticketing blitz following a City Council finance committee’s rejection of the police contract. Henry also named colleagues he believed to be the source of information to Taricani, then-Patrolman Peter Leclerc, Capt. Karen Guilbeault, now retired, and police retiree Ronald Jacob.