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Mass Man, 24, Killed After Car Plunges Into River; Family Faces 'Unimaginable Heartbreak'
A Massachusetts family is mourning a 24-year-old man who died after a car plunged into the Threemile River in Taunton, killing two people. Now their community is rallying around the man's family as police work to identify the second victim. Alec Ardita was found dead inside a submerged white N…
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Ex-Stoughton cop retired amid Birchmore probe gets $56K a year for life | Exclusive
Two days before Robert Devine was scheduled to face a second round of questioning about his relationship with Sandra Birchmore , whom he had known since she joined the Stoughton Police Explorers program when she was around 12, the longtime officer’s requested retirement took effect. He never sat for the interview. Instead, Devine began collecting a public retirement allowance of $56,544 a year, or $4,712 a month, a benefit he stands to receive for the rest of his life, according to records obtained by The Enterprise. Less than two weeks after his retirement took effect, a Stoughton internal affairs investigation concluded that Devine had an inappropriate relationship with Birchmore and lied to investigators about it. The investigation also brought renewed scrutiny to allegations of inappropriate behavior involving other participants in the Explorers program. The scrutiny culminated in December 2025, when the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, or POST Commission, revoked Devine’s law enforcement certification after finding he had “a pattern of unprofessional police conduct that may escalate” and “repeated sustained internal affairs complaints,” according to the decision . Devine, now 54, is representing himself in an appeal of the decision, which effectively bars him from working as a
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Ahead of Johnston exodus, Polisena says FM to lay off local workers
FM is laying off an unknown number of employees in conjunction with plans to relocate its global headquarters from Johnston to Providence, Johnston Mayor Joe Polisena Jr. said on Thursday. Polisena told Rhode Island Current in a phone interview that he met with an FM employee earlier in the day, who said she and at […]