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8+ hour, 26+ min ago (358+ words) Providence officials announced late Sunday that they are releasing the person that had previously been captured and deemed a "person of interest" in the Saturday shooting at Brown University that left 2 people dead and 9 people injured. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha explained that after detailed analysis of the evidence, there was "no basis to consider him a person of interest." "Sometimes you head in one direction and then you have to regroup and go in another and that's exactly what has happened in the last 24 hours or so," Neronha said. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said people in Providence should expect to see an increased police presence on the streets in the coming days, in part to provide residents a greater sense of comfort. But he emphasized that he does not believe people are in danger. "Ever since the initial…...

8+ hour, 38+ min ago (1890+ words) Goose at Amica Mutual Pavilion, Providence, Dec. 13, 2025, on livestream. I should've woken up Sunday morning with Goose's "Wysteria Lane" still ringing in my head. Still half-dreaming about colored balloons and animal puppets. But Saturday night's Goosemas was so overshadowed by the worst kind of darkness, I woke up thinking of Neil Young's "Ohio." That's a song about a campus shooting back when they were so rare we wrote songs about them." Two dead in Providence. Nine injured. A shooting at Brown University, just minutes away from the Amica Mutual Pavilion where Goose's Goosemas was a technicolor dream: a musical funhouse jamboree, complete with clown costumes, an aerialist, animal puppets, confetti, thousands of colored balloons. A contrast so sharp from the real world just outside, it could cut glass. For the uninitiated, Goosemas is the annual holiday concert extravaganza put on…...

12+ hour, 50+ min ago (478+ words) CNA Staff, Dec 15, 2025 / 12:00 pm After a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island over the weekend, Providence Bishop Bruce Lewandowski issued a statement asking for God's guidance and expressing his grief in the wake of the tragedy. On the afternoon on Saturday, Dec. 13, while approximately 60 Brown students participated in a study session for final exams in the Barus and Holley building, which houses the school of engineering and the physics department, an unidentified shooter opened fire, leaving two dead and nine injured." "As are many, I am deeply saddened and troubled by the senseless shooting today at Brown University in Providence," Lewandoski wrote. "Let us unite in prayer for those who lost their lives, for the injured, for the Brown University community and all affected by this tragedy." As of Monday morning, Providence police continue the search for the shooter....

15+ hour, 23+ min ago (220+ words) WASHINGTON (CBS, KYMA) - Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the shootings in Australia and at Brown University in Rhode Island. "Both horrible and particularly on the first day of Hanukkah, which is a celebration of light over darkness. And boy, we could use a little more light these days," Sen. Warner expressed. Brennan also brought up her previous interview with Mar'a Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, who said military action pressure is virtuous and necessary, leading her to ask the senator if he was persuaded by Machado's argument, and Warner said: During the interview, Brennan and Warner talked about the U.S. boat strikes in Venezuela, particularly the September 2 double tap strike. This prompted Brennan to ask Warner, who said he wants the classified video of the…...

18+ hour, 52+ min ago (220+ words) Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee has been among the most visible public officials in the wake of a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others. So what should you know about McKee, who has led the state since 2021? McKee proposed an assault weapons ban as his top legislative priority in 2025, and state lawmakers wound up passing approving a bill banning the sale, purchase, and manufacture of assault-style weapons that he signed into law. McKee was also a supporter of a ban on high-capacity gun magazines. McKee ran a fitness center in Woonsocket, R.I., for 30 years before he became mayor of Cumberland, and he has long pitched himself a voice for small businesses in the state. As lieutenant governor, he toured a business in every municipality, and during COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, he was a liaison between…...

18+ hour, 59+ min ago (226+ words) Providence Mayor Brett Smiley has been thrust into the national spotlight following the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine more. So what else should you know about the first-term mayor of New England's third-largest city? Smiley left his job as state director of administration in 2021 to run for mayor (he previously ran for mayor in 2014, but dropped out of the race before the Democratic primary. He won a three-way way primary with 41.8 percent of the vote, and faced no opposition in the general election. Both as a candidate and as the mayor, Smiley has pitched himself as a technocrat who largely avoids the ideological battles that have defined the Democratic party in recent years. He tends to be publicly supportive of his police department, and has pushed back against a more progressive City Council…...

1+ day, 5+ min ago (469+ words) FOXBOROUGH " Since Gillette Stadium is relatively close to Providence, some opposing teams opt to stay there when they come to play against the Patriots. The Buffalo Bills stayed at a hotel in downtown Providence on Saturday, less than two miles away from the scene where a gunman opened fire at Brown University Saturday afternoon,The Athletic's Dianna Russini reported. Two people died and nine were injured in the shooting. A person of interest was taken into custody Sunday morning, officials said. The Bills arrived safely for their Sunday afternoon contest against the Patriots at Gillette Stadium where a moment of silence was held for the victims before the game. The Buffalo Bills are staying at a downtown Providence hotel less than two miles from the active-shooter scene near Brown University. I'm told all players and staff are safe and accounted…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago (595+ words) Shortly after taking office in 2023, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley attended a US Conference of Mayors discussion on how cities respond to mass casualty events. The conversation left him unsettled. Sitting beside his chief of staff, Emily Crowell, Smiley turned to her and said Providence was not ready for a mass shooting. There was no indication that anything was imminent, but he ordered city leaders, public safety officials, and school administrators to begin preparing, anyway. "He said, "It's not a matter of if, it's when," Crowell recalled Sunday. That is a sentence no mayor should ever have to utter, let alone plan around. But it proved uncomfortably prescient shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday, when a gunman opened fire inside Brown University's Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, killing two students and wounding at least eight others. Providence is a mid-sized city of…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (276+ words) Canisius Golden Griffins (5-6, 0-2 MAAC) at Rhode Island Rams (7-4) Kingston, Rhode Island; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Canisius faces Rhode Island after Kahlil Singleton scored 20 points in Canisius' 70-43 win against the Maine Black Bears. The Rams have gone 4-1 in home games. Rhode Island ranks fifth in the A-10 at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 68.5 points while holding opponents to 42.2% shooting. The Golden Griffins are 1-5 on the road. Canisius is eighth in the MAAC with 8.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Michael Evbagharu averaging 2.2. Rhode Island makes 47.3% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.2 percentage points higher than Canisius has allowed to its opponents (43.1%). Canisius has shot at a 40.8% clip from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points below the 42.2% shooting opponents of Rhode Island have averaged. TOP PERFORMERS: Jonah Hinton is averaging 15.7 points for the Rams. Jahmere Tripp is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago (34+ words) Crowds gathered at a Providence park Sunday evening to honor the victims of shooting at Brown University. (AP video shot by: Amanda Swinhart) ... Vigil for victims of Brown University shooting brings Providence community together...