Amanda Milkovits
Staff Reporter at The Boston Globe
Journalist in ⚓️ Rhode Island for @bostonglobe. @FiveFreedoms member @IRE_NICAR Tips: [email protected] BlueSky: @amandamilkovits.bsky.social
Articles
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1 week ago |
keenesentinel.com | Amanda Milkovits
More than 30 years ago, a location manager for TriStar Pictures driving through the area decided to stop for coffee. He swung down the city’s famously wide main street and wound up in busy Central Square, ringed by old brick buildings and anchored by the quintessential New England steepled church. Here we were, going about our lives, not realizing that someone from Hollywood was looking around and realizing he’d found what he’d been looking for.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
PROVIDENCE — A Florida man who fired shots and led East Providence police on a high-speed chase that scattered guns and ammunition across the road in 2023 has been sentenced to federal prison on gun charges. Joshua Pavao of Kissimmee, Fla.East Providence Police DepartmentPavao, a truck driver who lived with his parents in Kissimmee, Fla., was originally from Coventry and had a girlfriend there.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The mother of a man with mental disabilities who was holding a toy gun when a police officer shot him begged for answers in a news conference outside the Pawtucket Police Department on Friday. Sebastian Yidana, 28, was shot by a police officer who was responding to reports of a man waving a rifle at a busy intersection late Sunday morning. Officer Thomas Letourneau opened fire, hitting Yidana in the shoulder.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
David Marsocci a former teacher at Bishop Hendricken High School, at his home in Warwick, R.I., in May 2022.Matthew Healey for The Boston GlobeThe jury rejected David Marsocci’s whistleblower and defamation claims against the school, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, and the school administration. Instead, the jurors ordered Marsocci to pay a total of more than $1 million in damages to the defendants.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island man who deliberately set fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black Pentecostal church and threw feces and urine at two correctional officers has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison. Kevin Colantonio, 34, of North Providence.
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