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REMINDER: RITBA Customer Service Center will be open

for special evening hours this Thursday, March 23rd 4-7pm

 

 

The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority customer service walk-in center will be open for special evening hours on Thursday, March 23rd, from 4pm-7pm. 

 

“We had a great response to our evening hours last week,” said Lori Caron Silveira, Executive Director of RITBA. “Customers appreciated the convenience of being able to stop by after work and get assistance from our team.”

 

The walk-in center is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9am-1pm for E-ZPass, Bill by Mail, and other tolling transactions.  Call-in hours are Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm (877-743-9727).  The Thursday evening hours on March 23rd will be in addition to the regular Monday, Wednesday, and Friday hours.

 

 

 

A mass shooting on Memorial Day in Hollywood, Florida has left nine people injured, including a one-year-old child. Investigators believe two groups were arguing when shots were fired. One person was detained, but the search is still on for a second suspect. The incident was just one in a series of Memorial Day weekend shootings across the U.S. that left at least 16 people dead and dozens injured.        President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy will be working the phones today in a bid to sell the debt ceiling deal they struck to holdouts within their respective parties. The House is expected to vote Wednesday on the bipartisan deal that raises the nation's debt limit for the next two years.       A detention hearing is set for today in federal court in Washington, DC for a 19-year-old from Missouri charged for ramming a U-Haul truck into a barrier near the White House earlier this month. Sai Kandula [[ sy kan-doo-lah ]] reportedly told police his goal was to get into the White House, seize power and be put in charge of the nation.        Nearly five years after eleven people were shot to death in the Pittsburgh-area Tree of Life synagogue, the trial of their accused killer starts today. With 12 jurors and six alternates officially seated late last week, proceedings are set to begin in the trial of Robert Bowers. Federal prosecutors are looking for convictions on 63 separate counts in connection with the October 2018 mass shooting.        An Iowa apartment complex that partially collapsed Sunday night is set to be demolished today. This, after a ninth person was pulled from the rubble of the historic six-story building in Davenport yesterday. No deaths have been reported and there's no word yet on what may have caused the collapse.        The Golden Knights are moving on to the Stanley Cup Final. Las Vegas blew out the Stars 6-0 in the Western Conference Finals from Dallas. They'll face off against the Panthers in the Cup final after Florida swept the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals to advance.       

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