Amanda Milkovits

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits

PROVIDENCE — A Pawtucket man serving time for the murder of a woman in Woonsocket has been indicted for the cold-case murder of the brother of a police captain in 2008. Carl Seebeck, 63, was shot to death as he walked to a bus stop before dawn in August 2008. His brother John served on the Pawtucket police force for 42 years, and retired in 2016 as a captain. He told The Providence Journal at the time that he was sure a Pawtucket officer would solve his brother’s case.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Ten days after being suspended from North Kingstown High School after complaints about his “naked fat tests,” celebrated basketball coach Aaron Thomas faced questions from local police detectives. Thomas denied that any student was naked during the tests, according to police video of the Feb. 22, 2021 interview, which prosecutors showed jurors on Thursday in Washington County Superior Court, where Thomas is on trial.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A former athletic director testified on Wednesday about the day in 2017 when he happened to see North Kingstown High School’s head basketball coach Aaron Thomas alone in his office with a half-naked teenage boy. Howard Hague recalled waving at the two, as Thomas closed the door. But the sight didn’t sit well with him, Hague told a jury in Washington County Superior Court.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A former student-athlete testified Tuesday that he was 13 and still in middle school when North Kingstown High School basketball coach Aaron Thomas invited him to undergo “fat testing.”A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. The former student said that an older athlete told him to expect that Thomas was going to ask him to strip.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits |Christopher Gavin

That’s the question Aaron Thomas, a once-celebrated veteran coach at North Kingstown High School, allegedly asked hundreds of his student-athletes in the moments before students stripped naked and he pinched their inner thighs and areas near their groins, scrotums, and buttocks to perform his regimen of “fat tests.”And it’s the first question Assistant Attorney General Timothy G.