Turf War
(Published in The Providence Journal on Feb. 18, 2007) BARRINGTON, R.I. - When Peter Erickson took down fencing in the woods behind his...


Henry's Story
(Published in The Providence Journal in 2013) NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nothing has changed in the room where Henry Alexander Andrade...
Station nightclub fire tragedy: Lisa Kelly, 27, created stirring 'breezes'
(In February 2003, a fire tore through a rock concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. One-hundred people lost their lives....
Living in No Man's Land
(Published in The Providence Journal on Dec. 28, 2005) FALL RIVER, Mass. - James Almeida lives in Fall River, but some haven't accepted...
A Battle of Wills
(Published in The Providence Journal on Nov. 1, 2009) It’s a weekday morning and Alex Azar, 12, is at home, hunkered over a laptop at the...
Marijuana decriminilization -- R.I could learn from neighbors’ experience
(Published in The Providence Journal on July 2, 2012) PROVIDENCE -- If Rhode Island, the latest Northeast state to decriminalize...
Courts: Kickbacks earns Mariano 10 years
(Published in The Providence Journal on Nov. 2, 2013) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ralph M. Mariano, called the mastermind of a kickback scheme in...
Day Filled with Cheers, Tears and Hopes Fulfilled
(Published in The Providence Journal on May 18, 2004) PROVINCETOWN, Mass. -- In a backyard of America's gay mecca, Michael John Sullivan...
Oil Spill Fouls Hopes
(Published in The Providence Journal on July 15, 2003) Before the oil spill, before his fears, saltwater ran through Jim Mellen’s life....
Vaunted High School Football Rivalry Spans the Generations
(Published in The Providence Journal on Nov. 23, 2012) EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The yard lines of this Thanksgiving Day rivalry long ago...