Retired Black Players Fight NFL Brain Injury Payout Algorithm Based on Race May 18, 2021 By Maryclaire Dale and Michelle R. Smith Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of...
Poll Shows #MeToo Movement Is Changing Workplace Conversations, Behavior October 28, 2019 By Michelle R. Smith and Hannah Fingerhut Barbara Myers started work as an apprentice electrician in 1995, and over the years she learned to shoot back sexual...
Vermont Man Whose Relatives Died Mysteriously Must Give Gun Info December 11, 2017 By Michelle R. Smith A Vermont man whose mother and grandfather died in mysterious circumstances must turn over information related to a missing gun,...
Trial Underway in Brown University Case Over Student Suspension for Alleged Sexual Assault July 22, 2016 By Michelle R. Smith Trial began Tuesday in a lawsuit brought against Brown University by a student who was suspended after a sexual encounter...
Circus Returns to Rhode Island Year After Hair-Hanging Fall April 29, 2015 By Michelle R. Smith The last time Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performed in Rhode Island, eight acrobats suspended by their hair...
Ringling Bros. Disputes OSHA Citation for Hair-Hanging Accident in R.I. December 19, 2014 By Michelle R. Smith Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has contested a citation it received from federal regulators for an accident that...
Circus Cited for Hair-Hanging Stunt in Rhode Island That Injured 9 November 5, 2014 By Michelle R. Smith Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus misused a key rigging component in a hair-hanging stunt, causing a fall that...
Acrobats Injured in R.I. Circus Crash Hire Law Firm June 18, 2014 By Michelle R. Smith Seven of the eight hair-hanging circus acrobats who fell to the floor during a “human chandelier” stunt in the U.S....
Authorities Say Clamp Snapped in R.I. Aerial Circus Accident May 6, 2014 By Michelle R. Smith Investigators looking into why eight circus acrobats plummeted to the ground during an aerial hair-hanging stunt in Providence, R.I., have...
Four Plead Not Guilty in High Profile Insurance Fraud Case in R.I. December 5, 2010 By Michelle R. Smith Four people pleaded not guilty last month in U.S. District Court in an alleged scheme to rip off an insurance...