Boston Marathon suspect cornered in backyard boat; hospitalized in serious...
By News staffWATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- For just a few minutes, it seemed like the dragnet that had shut down a metropolitan area of millions while legions of police went house to house looking for the...
View ArticleIn Boston and beyond, thanks and jubilation
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- They gathered in silence on Boylston Street, just three blocks away from the chaos and carnage caused by twin bombings four days earlier. Some were crying. Boston University...
View ArticlePhotos force suspects' move, breaking bombing case
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- Moments after investigators went before television cameras to broadcast photos of two men in ball caps wanted for the Boston Marathon bombing, queries from viewers started...
View ArticleGov't sources: Boston bomb suspect went to Russia
By News staffWASHINGTON (AP) -- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year and returned to the U.S. six months later, government officials told The Associated Press....
View ArticleObama: Boston capture closes out a 'tough week'
By News staffWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama pledged to seek answers for the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions about the motives and the planning behind the deadly blasts, even as he...
View ArticleUMass-Dartmouth remains closed amid investigation
By News staffDARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth remains closed as law enforcement officials continue their investigation into a student suspected as the Boston Marathon...
View ArticleIn Boston manhunt, online detectives flourish
By News staffSEATTLE (AP) -- The intensive manhunt for the bombers behind the deadly Boston Marathon attacks didn't take place only on the streets with professional police officers and SWAT teams. In...
View ArticleFinal shootout, then Boston bombing suspect caught, hospitalized unable to talk
By News staffWATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- For just a few minutes, it seemed as if the dragnet that had shut down a metropolitan area of millions while legions of police went house to house looking for the...
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R.I. charity race raises more than $1,000 for Boston Marathon victims / Video
By Amanda MilkovitsProvidence Journal video Andrew DickermanA group of runners approach the finish of Saturday's charity race for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. On Saturday morning, about 200...
View ArticleProvidence spruces up in honor of Mother Earth
By Gregory SmithPROVIDENCE, RI -- An estimated 1,800 volunteers fanned out on a cool and cloudy morning Saturday for a one-day cleanup and tree-planting operation to revivify the city. Mayor Angel...
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Red Sox make emotional return to Fenway Park
By Brian MacPherson AP/Michael DwyerBOSTON -- David Ortiz punctuated a moving ceremony at Fenway Park with a speech from the middle of the infield that will take its place among the iconic moments both...
View ArticleProsecutors move quickly to build Marathon case
By News staffWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has a range of legal options in the Boston Marathon bombings, and they could include seeking the death penalty against the 19-year-old suspect...
View ArticleUMass-Dartmouth to reopen Sunday after 2nd Boston Marathon bombing suspect is...
By Karen Lee ZinerDARTMOUTH, Mass. -- UMass-Dartmouth will reopen Sunday, now that law enforcement and university officials have determined that the campus is safe, according to a statement on the...
View ArticleBurrillville fire under investigation
By Karen Lee ZinerBURRILLVILLE, R.I. -- A fire at 160 Whipple Ave. in the Oakland section was being investigated Saturday night. A police spokesman said at 10 p.m. that the fire had been brought under...
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PolitiFact R.I. rules Rep. Chippendale's claim on guns and suicide Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One of the arguments used by supporters of gun control is that restricting access to guns could prevent some of the thousands of gun-related suicides that...
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URI President Dooley a frequent traveler, from Beijing to his Montana lab
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- University of Rhode Island President David Dooley is a frequent and world-wide traveler, whose 118-plus days on the road last year took him to destinations as near...
View ArticleFor bombing suspects, question may be who led whom
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, "then crushing their beliefs...
View ArticleMass. Governor: No idea of terrorists' motivation
By News staffWASHINGTON (AP) -- The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on...
View ArticleInterrogators wait to query wounded bomb suspect
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised...
View ArticleToday in RI history
By Thomas J. MorganOn April 21, 2012 A year ago today: Todd J. Giroux, who ran as an independent candidate for governor in 2010, has announces that he is running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate seat...
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