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It has been an unusually intense first week on the job for Joe Abouzeid, WPRI 12’s new vice president and general manager.
After months of speculation, Abouzeid was finally named this week as the successor to Pat Wholey at the CBS and Fox affiliate in Rhode Island, which is owned by Nexstar.
Instead of easing into the role, the first test he faced was the tragic shooting at a Pawtucket ice rink that left three people dead and three others wounded.
The bigger picture: A former news director at WPRI, Abouzeid returns with firsthand experience in how local television operates during moments of crisis.
His arrival also comes at a time when local television stations are being asked to do more with fewer resources, particularly during breaking news emergencies.
Abouzeid’s return to Rhode Island comes after stints leading WIVB in Buffalo, N.Y., and WDTN in Dayton, Ohio. He is also a former managing editor at WHDH Channel 7 in Boston.
He was the internal favorite to succeed Wholey, who left the station last October to run WDCW in Washington, D.C., another Nexstar station in the country’s eighth-largest television market.
Full disclosure: Globe Rhode Island has an editorial partnership with WPRI.
🤔 So you think you're a Rhode Islander...
Pawtucket was home to the industrialist Samuel Slater. What was his first wife famous for?
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⚓ Rhonda Dorgan and Aidan Dorgan, the ex-wife and son of Robert Dorgan, were killed when Robert Dorgan opened fire during a hockey game at a Pawtucket ice rink on Monday, according to a family member. Read more.
⚓ While authorities have not said what prompted Robert Dorgan to shoot and kill family members during a hockey game in Pawtucket on Monday, court records and interviews with friends and family members paint a picture of a complicated life marked by legal disputes and family conflict. Read more.
⚓ A candlelight vigil at the Slatersville Congregational Church in North Smithfield brought a grieving community together after Monday's deadly hockey rink shooting in Pawtucket. Read more.
⚓ Brookline Police have released 96 pages of reports from the shooting death of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who was killed by the same person who shot and killed two students at Brown University in December. Read more.
⚓ While Massachusetts gets much of the historical glory, Rhode Island’s role in the Revolutionary War brought about some significant moments worth looking at as the nation gets ready to celebrate its 250th birthday in July. Read more.
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⚓Leaders of Boston and five nearby cities announced the guidelines earlier this month under a series of executive orders seeking to limit the authority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials amid President Trump’s mass deportation agenda. But already, some law enforcement leaders are expressing concern about whether the orders are asking too much of local police.
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⚓ Baystate Health, the largest health system in Western Massachusetts, will no longer prescribe hormones or puberty blockers to transgender patients under 18 in a move the system said would protect its Medicaid and Medicare funding. Read more.
⚓ The Town of Foxborough continues to play hardball overs the entertainment license that FIFA, the Kraft Group, and the Boston 26 host committee need to stage seven World Cup games over 39 days this summer. Read more.
⚓ Rhode Map readers, if you want the birthday of a friend or family member to be recognized Friday, send me an email with their first and last name, and their age.
⚓ The Providence City Council is holding a public hearing on its proposed rent control ordinance at 5:30 p.m.
⚓ The Providence School Board is meeting at 6 p.m., and is expected to reelect Ty’Relle Stephens as its president.
⚓ The state Council on Postsecondary Education is meeting at 5:30 p.m. Here's the agenda.
🏆 Pop quiz answer
Hannah Slater is believed by some to be the first American woman ever to receive a patent. She obtained the patent for inventing the two-ply thread.
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