Exhibit A this week is Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan, whose drunken antics while resisting arrest outside the upscale Clarke Cooke House in Newport is the latest example of a new genre of viral content: brats resisting arrest.

Staring down an estimated $1.1 million budget gap resulting from congressional defunding, Rhode Island’s recently merged public media entity is cutting staff — first on a volunteer basis, and later, potentially through layoffs.

F ew years have been as productive as 2025 when it comes to the Rhode Island movie and TV industry, but the Ocean State's connection to moviemaking stretches back to a time when the state of technology meant that most movies didn't even "talk," the only sound being musical scores synchronized to the story.

The Rhode Island AG says one of his prosecutor employees, who previously worked in the Suffolk DA’s Office, “embarrassed herself” after she tried to use her title to block her arrest

It seems less cool, same with snowboarding and skateboarding.” Pan works at the beach town’s storied Narragansett Surf and Skate shop which has collaborated with likes of Bic Sports (yes, they of the pen and lighters!

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"Are we going to turn to raising taxes again to keep fueling this?" asked the CEO of a business-backed think tank.

Keith Hoffmann has become the first candidate to formally announce they are running to be Rhode Island's next attorney general in the 2026 election. Until about three weeks ago, Hoffmann was chief of policy for the term-limited Attorney General Peter Neronha who, he says, encouraged him as far back as a year ago to consider running for the job.

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is offering Come Clam With Me classes once again this summer.

“It was after all, fast and furious,” attorney John Grasso told The Post of chaotic bodycam footage that showed his client, Veronica Hannan, and Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan cuffed by police for alleged trespassing at the Clarke Cooke House restaurant in Newport on Thursday.