RI Judge won't stop tent city eviction

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Supreme Court judge has refused to halt the eviction of a group of homeless people who set up a tent city on city-owned land in Providence.

Justice William P. Robinson III on Monday declined to issue a last-minute stay requested by the residents of Camp Runamuck. A stay would have allowed them to keep living on the land, for now.

Their lawyer, Neville Bedford, says he's appealing the decision that allowed the city to evict the camp residents to the full Supreme Court. In the meantime, residents must be off the land by 5 p.m. Monday.

The camp residents moved there earlier this month after being evicted from state-owned land in East Providence.

The city is also trying to evict residents of a splinter camp set up on private land.