SouthCoast Wind is moving forward on other fronts. On Dec. 20, the Biden administration announced that the proposal had received approval from the federal government, making it the 11 th offshore wind project to get the green light from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

University of Massachusetts women’s basketball (9-9, 4-3 A-10) fell to Saint Joseph’s University (14-4, 5-2 A-10), 67-55, at the Mullins Center on Saturday afternoon.

Targeted phone numbers appear to be chosen at random and are “not uniquely associated with an account or usage of toll roads,” MassDOT said in a statement.

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Gov. Dan McKee is no longer attending President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday due to expected snowfall. “After reviewing the latest the weather forecast for Rhode Island, the governor made the decision not to travel out of state at this time,” a spokesperson for McKee said.

Rhode Island police arrested four suspects who led law enforcement officials on a chase that stemmed from an armed robbery of a FedEx driver in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Rhode Island State Police identified four suspects arrested after a pursuit that ended in Providence.

Michael Brier, 62, was accused of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and other health insurers out of millions of dollars by billing them for services Recovery Connection Centers of America, Inc., did not provide.

Providence police said Friday that four people were arrested following a pursuit that began in Massachusetts and ended in a crash on Interstate 95.

Officer Mark Castiglione, 36, of Milford, appeared Friday in the Sixth District Court in Providence. He and and Renee E. Deans, 48, also of Milford, were each arrested on Dec. 28 by Rhode Island State Police on drug charges.

A national think tank says the ACLU of Massachusetts is “grasping for relevance” with a settlement it secured in its challenge of the first Trump administration’s pattern of separating married couples and families seeking legal immigration status for a spouse at risk of deportation.

In Massachusetts, one man creates custom clown shoes, and in Rhode Island, a nonprofit provides new sneakers for kids without housing.

A man from New York was sentenced in connection with shipping dozens of packages containing cocaine from Puerto Rico to different addresses throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.