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State of Rhode Island, Attorney General Peter F. Neronha ,

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Jury finds Pawtucket man guilty of sexual assault

Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Pawtucket man has been found guilty in Providence County Superior Court of committing sexual assault against a juvenile female victim between 2014 and 2017. ...

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Pawtucket man indicted for 2008 cold case murder

Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves announced today that a Pawtucket man has been charged in a seventeen-year-old cold case, stemming from the murder of 63-year-old Carl Seebeck. ...

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Attorney General Neronha sues Trump Administration over illegal funding cuts and delays for medical and public health research

Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts over its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The lawsuit challenges the Administration’s unreasonable and intentional delays in reviewing NIH grant applications, as well as its termination of hundreds of already-issued grants. ...

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Attorney General Neronha joins coalition in lawsuit against Trump Administration over unlawful executive order seeking to impose sweeping voting restrictions

Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the federal Election Assistance Commission, and other Trump Administration officials over Executive Order No. 14248 (the Elections Executive Order), an unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American attempt to impose sweeping voting restrictions across the country. ...

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