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3+ hour, 23+ min ago (478+ words) CNA Staff, Dec 15, 2025 / 12:00 pm After a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island over the weekend, Providence Bishop Bruce Lewandowski issued a statement asking for God's guidance and expressing his grief in the wake of the tragedy. On the afternoon on Saturday, Dec. 13, while approximately 60 Brown students participated in a study session for final exams in the Barus and Holley building, which houses the school of engineering and the physics department, an unidentified shooter opened fire, leaving two dead and nine injured." "As are many, I am deeply saddened and troubled by the senseless shooting today at Brown University in Providence," Lewandoski wrote. "Let us unite in prayer for those who lost their lives, for the injured, for the Brown University community and all affected by this tragedy." As of Monday morning, Providence police continue the search for the shooter....

5+ hour, 56+ min ago (220+ words) WASHINGTON (CBS, KYMA) - Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the shootings in Australia and at Brown University in Rhode Island. "Both horrible and particularly on the first day of Hanukkah, which is a celebration of light over darkness. And boy, we could use a little more light these days," Sen. Warner expressed. Brennan also brought up her previous interview with Mar'a Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, who said military action pressure is virtuous and necessary, leading her to ask the senator if he was persuaded by Machado's argument, and Warner said: During the interview, Brennan and Warner talked about the U.S. boat strikes in Venezuela, particularly the September 2 double tap strike. This prompted Brennan to ask Warner, who said he wants the classified video of the…...

9+ hour, 25+ min ago (220+ words) Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee has been among the most visible public officials in the wake of a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others. So what should you know about McKee, who has led the state since 2021? McKee proposed an assault weapons ban as his top legislative priority in 2025, and state lawmakers wound up passing approving a bill banning the sale, purchase, and manufacture of assault-style weapons that he signed into law. McKee was also a supporter of a ban on high-capacity gun magazines. McKee ran a fitness center in Woonsocket, R.I., for 30 years before he became mayor of Cumberland, and he has long pitched himself a voice for small businesses in the state. As lieutenant governor, he toured a business in every municipality, and during COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, he was a liaison between…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago (226+ words) Providence Mayor Brett Smiley has been thrust into the national spotlight following the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine more. So what else should you know about the first-term mayor of New England's third-largest city? Smiley left his job as state director of administration in 2021 to run for mayor (he previously ran for mayor in 2014, but dropped out of the race before the Democratic primary. He won a three-way way primary with 41.8 percent of the vote, and faced no opposition in the general election. Both as a candidate and as the mayor, Smiley has pitched himself as a technocrat who largely avoids the ideological battles that have defined the Democratic party in recent years. He tends to be publicly supportive of his police department, and has pushed back against a more progressive City Council…...

14+ hour, 37+ min ago (469+ words) FOXBOROUGH " Since Gillette Stadium is relatively close to Providence, some opposing teams opt to stay there when they come to play against the Patriots. The Buffalo Bills stayed at a hotel in downtown Providence on Saturday, less than two miles away from the scene where a gunman opened fire at Brown University Saturday afternoon,The Athletic's Dianna Russini reported. Two people died and nine were injured in the shooting. A person of interest was taken into custody Sunday morning, officials said. The Bills arrived safely for their Sunday afternoon contest against the Patriots at Gillette Stadium where a moment of silence was held for the victims before the game. The Buffalo Bills are staying at a downtown Providence hotel less than two miles from the active-shooter scene near Brown University. I'm told all players and staff are safe and accounted…...

22+ hour, 12+ min ago (595+ words) Shortly after taking office in 2023, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley attended a US Conference of Mayors discussion on how cities respond to mass casualty events. The conversation left him unsettled. Sitting beside his chief of staff, Emily Crowell, Smiley turned to her and said Providence was not ready for a mass shooting. There was no indication that anything was imminent, but he ordered city leaders, public safety officials, and school administrators to begin preparing, anyway. "He said, "It's not a matter of if, it's when," Crowell recalled Sunday. That is a sentence no mayor should ever have to utter, let alone plan around. But it proved uncomfortably prescient shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday, when a gunman opened fire inside Brown University's Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, killing two students and wounding at least eight others. Providence is a mid-sized city of…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (34+ words) Crowds gathered at a Providence park Sunday evening to honor the victims of shooting at Brown University. (AP video shot by: Amanda Swinhart) ... Vigil for victims of Brown University shooting brings Providence community together...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (79+ words) Fox News Channel offers its audiences in-depth news reporting, along with opinion and analysis encompassing the principles of free people, free markets and diversity of thought, as an alternative to the left-of-center offerings of the news marketplace. Providence mayor provides update on deadly shooting at Brown University Providence Mayor Brett Smiley tells reporters that a person of interest is in custody following a shooting at Brown University that killed two people and injured nine. (Credit: WFXT)...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (361+ words) By Lauren Mascarenhas, Chris Boyette and CNN Staff A person of interest is in custody in connection with yesterday's shooting at Brown University, officials said this morning. The shooting, which happened during a final exam review session at the private Ivy League university, left two students dead and nine others injured. Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez would not confirm whether the person of interest is affiliated with the university in any way. A law enforcement source says the person of interest was detained at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island. A CNN crew saw a large police presence gather at the hotel before officers moved in on a room, banging on the door and calling for the person to come out. Coventry is a town outside Providence, where the university is located. The community can "breathe a little easier…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (772+ words) PROVIDENCE - Planned celebrations marking the first night of Hanukkah and the upcoming holidays were abruptly turned into community memorials Sunday evening after a mass shooting at Brown University. Flurries dusted Lippitt Memorial Park in Providence at about 5 p.m. Sunday as hundreds gathered for what was supposed to be a Christmas tree and menorah lighting ceremony. Instead, local leaders and neighbors passed around candles as they mourned the victims and came together for support. "We are gathered here to share light with one another in one of Providence's darkest times," said Providence City Councilor Sue AnderBois, who planned the holiday celebration before the shooting. "Our hearts break for the two students at Brown who lost their lives to gun violence yesterday and the nine others who are injured and their families." About two miles away, dozens of members of Brown's Jewish community…...