providence journal

Funeral services will be held Thursday for Bernie Sullivan of Fall River, a prominent newspaper editor, and later the public information officer for the Bristol County Sheriff's Office.  He died Friday at the age of 83. According to the Herald News, Sullivan was ordained as a priest in 1958, but by 1969 he was a reporter, hired by the Providence Journal...

According to the Providence Journal, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, is scheduled to speak at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, RI on July 28. Malala is widely known as an advocate for all children's right to education, and for her remarkable recovery after the Taliban attack against her when she was only 15 years old back in 2012...

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza says he is looking forward to working with new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox to consider moving the team to a few miles south to Rhode Island's largest city. Elorza issued a statement Monday following the announcement that Red Sox president Larry Lucchino and several Rhode Island businessmen purchased the Triple A baseball club for an undisclosed price...

A construction worker from Massachusetts has been killed while working on a road project in Warwick.