RI Official Quits After Faking Photo-Op

A Cranston, Rhode Island city official has resigned after urging a middle-aged man to dress up as an elderly woman for a public photo-op. Sue Stenhouse, Cranston’s director of senior services, persuaded a man to wear lipstick, earrings, a wig, and a dress for a media event. The man, disguised as a woman and wearing a name tag that said ‘‘Cranston Senior Home Resident,” stood next to the mayor at a press conference for a snow shoveling program. Stenhouse’s fabrication came to light this week when a local TV news station uncovered the incident.