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Man charged with raping teenager at Rockland hotel used to house migrant families, prosecutors say

Cory B. Alvarez was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on March 22,

THINGS TO DO

Best things to do in Rhode Island: March 15-22

This week: St. Paddy’s Day parades, live music, Irish fare, Jax Hollow in Jamestown, and more!

Ira M. Millstein, corporate lawyer with public impact, dies at 97

A venerable lawyer, Ira Millstein crusaded for greater independence by corporate boards of directors, invoked his bipartisan bona fides in helping to shepherd Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the federal bench, and vigilantly helped New York City evade bankruptcy in the mid-1970s.

RI ECONOMY

Gender pay gap growing in R.I., even after passage of pay equity bill

Women’s Fund of Rhode Island attributes the growing gap to a “she-cession” during the pandemic, and expects women’s salaries to grow as they return to the workforce and state legislation takes hold.

Dorie Ladner, dauntless civil rights activist, dies at 81

Dorie Ladner joined the civil rights movement as a teenager in Mississippi, braving gunfire, tear gas, police dogs, and Ku Klux Klansmen in an undaunted campaign for racial equality.

N.H. House narrowly passes bill that would mandate parental notice for teaching about sexual orientation and gender

The GOP-backed legislation would allow parents to opt their children out of such lessons. Democrats said it could apply to learning about women getting the right to vote.

New questions have emerged in the Karen Read case. Here’s the latest.

Lawyers for Karen Read, the Mansfield woman accused of backing her SUV into her boyfriend and leaving him for dead in a blizzard in Canton in 2022, presented new details in court this week as they asked the judge to dismiss the charges against her.

School bus driver charged after allegedly driving drunk with children on board in Westborough, police say

There were 25 to 30 children on the bus at the time, a police report said.