Christopher Hightower was convicted in 1993 ... At the time, he was only the seventh person in Rhode Island history to receive life without parole as a sentence for a crime.

BOSTON — Three years after a Christopher Columbus statue was removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, the bronze cast has re-emerged, this time in a park in Johnston, Rhode Island ...

A controversial Christopher Columbus statue in Providence, Rhode Island that activists thought the city had permanently removed was actually only picked up and relocated — to a park just nine ...