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William Ferland has been prosecuting mob cases for 25 years on the state and local level in Rhode Island, but he hopes he’s seen the last of the sort of Mafia murder trial that ended in a conviction in Boston last month.

Ferland was on the prosecution team that convicted Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme and Paul Weadick in the death of Providence native Steven DiSarro in June.

Local musician David Polansky led attendees at the July 20 Council on Aging/Wellesley Police Department barbecue in a singalong, which featured vintage and patriotic tunes.

Sonny's BBQ on Back Beach Road closed Thursday, bought by Community Banks of Mississippi.

Neither the man nor the restaurant have been identified.

The creepy girl subgenre is probably one of the least often explored in all of horror cinema any yet almost always yields a classic whenever someone makes one. In this episode originally published in July of 2014, Andrew and Kate take a look at Lucky McKee's 2002 sleeper "May" and Richard Bates Jr's 2012 body horror comedy "Excision." Follow @cinemandrew on IG/Twitter for more stuffs.

The star of History Channel's "Pawn Stars" talks about the show, his shop and coming to town for the 12th annual Roar on the Shore.

Reporter Carlos Munoz talks about Snooty the Manatee, one year after the sea cow was found dead.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist and blogger Jay Bookman discusses southern and national politics -- and President Trump’s interactions with Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un -- this week on Story in the Public Square.

That’s the impression one gets talking to Ross Allen, the director of the British Department for International Trade in the United States. Allen visited the Ocean State this week to lay the groundwork for two trade missions, one in September when Rhode Island business owners will visit northern England and Scotland and one in October, when business owners from the region around the northern British city of Leeds will visit New England, especially Boston and Providence.

“You’ve got lots of advantages here,” Allen said during an interview at The Providence Journal offices. “You’ve got a very receptive, pro-business administration.”

Historian and writer Molly Crusen Bishop, manager of the Greenhut Memorial Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Downtown Peoria, chats with the Journal Star's Steve Tarter about the third annual Whiskey Baron 5K/1K run coming up on August 11.