Today’s Top Stories: At Stop & Shop picket lines, workers air grievances, customers weigh options; R.I. child-welfare director talks about agency s shakeup after 9-year-old s death; Sox rotation (finally) shows resilience in home win over Orioles ...

[View email with images]( [Providence Journal]( Some customers cross Stop & Shop picket lines; others turn around PROVIDENCE -- As a strike involving Stop & Shop employees entered its second day, the stakes and scale were huge -- thousands of workers over hundreds of stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island in a dispute about pay, benefits ... [READ MORE]( Stop & Shop strike: What shoppers need to know Who is on strike? Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Why? The union and the company disagree on pay, pension and health-insurance issues. When did the strike begin? Thursday at 1:15 p.m. How many stores are involved? 27 in Rhode Island, plus stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Store in New York and New Jersey are not involved ... [READ MORE]( R.I. child-welfare agency shakes up staff, policies For a decade, Michele Rothgeb, a single parent, kept taking in more children under her Warwick roof - eight in total, all with special needs. Whatever concerns a state child-welfare worker might have had about that situation languished in a system of bad policies and poor staff judgments, the director of the Department of Children, Youth and Families announced Friday. [READ MORE]( Sox finally pull themselves up — against Orioles BOSTON — This seemed like the perfect time to welcome the Orioles to Fenway Park. Turns out, it was. The touted Boston rotation finally looked somewhat formidable Friday night, with Eduardo Rodriguez producing just the second quality start authored by the group. The bullpen and lineup — two groups that have actually performed well recently — took care of the rest. [READ MORE]( Immigration detainees get guidance from lawyers at Wyatt Immigration attorneys entered the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility Friday morning to conduct a "know your rights" workshop for the first time since Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees began to arrive at the facility in January. [READ MORE]( Ex. R.I. senator James E. Doyle sentenced to 2 years for kiting checks PROVIDENCE - A federal judge on Friday sentenced former state Sen. James E. Doyle II to two years in prison for scamming close to $500,000 from banks by passing tens of thousands of worthless checks over four years. [READ MORE]( Celtics' season of redemption starts on Sunday BOSTON - They were second behind the champion Golden State Warriors in the projected win totals entering the 2018-19 NBA season. The Celtics over-and-under number set by the Vegas oddsmakers was 59 victories... [READ MORE]( Lanes will shift on Route 95N in Providence for bridge repair PROVIDENCE — Lane shifts on Route 95 north start on Saturday as the Department of Transportation embarks on a $10.8-million project to reconstruct the bridge that takes the highway over Oxford Street, about a quarter-mile north of the Thurbers Avenue curve. [READ MORE]( Inside Story: Memoir of mental illness offers comfort and hope Sarah Fawn Montgomery - poet, author, memoirist and assistant professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts - brings her firsthand experiences with mental illness to the show, from initial denial to treatment ... [READ MORE]( Editorial: An explosion of diseases in Venezuela We have often written about Venezuela s tragic descent from an oil-rich nation with a vibrant middle class to an impoverished, crime-infested dictatorship. Roughly 3 million Venezuelans have already fled their homeland, and many... [READ MORE]( [providencejournal.com]( Connect with Us! [Facebook]( [Twitter]( Connect with Us! [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WWW.PROVIDENCEJOURNAL.COM]( You are receiving this communication as a member of the Providence Journal. Providence Journal values your online privacy. For more information, view our [privacy policy]( now. Please do not reply to this message. [Manage Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( Providence Journal 75 Fountain St Providence, RI 02902 © 2019 Providence Journal. All rights reserved.