Update: Two bodies found in Central Falls apartment ruled homicides
By Mike McKinneyCENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The deaths of two people in an apartment on Sylvian Street have been deemed homicides, Central Falls Police Chief James J. Mendonca said on Sunday. The police...
View ArticleToday in RI history: West Greenwich police officer rescues woman from burning...
By Thomas J. MorganA year ago today: A 6-year-old boy is pulled from the water at Lincoln Woods State Park and pronounced dead. A spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Management said the...
View ArticleFederal task force viewing RI recovery from Sandy
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's task force on Superstorm Sandy will be touring the Rhode Island coast to see how communities have been recovering from last October's...
View ArticleTeresa Heinz Kerry is critical in Boston hospital
By News staffBRIDGET MURPHY,Associated Press MATTHEW LEE,Associated Press BOSTON (AP) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in...
View ArticleArraignment set for man in Hernandez case
By News staffATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) -- A man facing accessory to murder charges in the case involving former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is facing arraignment. Ernest Wallace, of...
View ArticleHot, humid, thunderstorms possible later
By Jack PerryPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect high temperatures in the 80s today with high humidity and the possibility of thunderstorms, according to our weather partners at WPRI. The high temperature...
View ArticleSpeed, alcohol suspected in Maine crash that killed RI man
By News staffTHORNDIKE, Maine (AP) -- Maine authorities say both speed and alcohol appear to be factors in a deadly car crash in Thorndike that killed a Rhode Island man and seriously injured two...
View ArticleTraffic alert: Lane closed on Route 95 north near exit for state offices
By Jack PerryPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The right-center lane is blocked on Route 95 north at Exit 23 because of an accident, the state Traffic Management Office reports.
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Florida man held without bail in Hernandez case
By Mike McKinney Providence Journal photo / Kris Craig Ernest Wallace, of Miramar, Fla., is led in to be arraigned in District Court, Attleboro, on a charge of accessory to murder in the shooting death...
View ArticleACI inmate dies in his sleep
By Thomas J. MorganCRANSTON, R.I. -- An inmate at the Adult Corrections Institutions apparently died in his sleep over the weekend, prison spokeswoman Susan Lamkins said Monday. Lamkins identified the...
View ArticleOlneyville projects to be funded by Citizens Bank Foundation
By Alisha A. PinaPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Citizens Bank Foundation awarded $60,000 to fund 13 projects that are geared to improve Olneyville, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Providence. The projects...
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Kraft says Patriots were 'duped' by Aaron Hernandez
By Mike McDermott AP photo / Mark Humphrey New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told a hand-picked group of reporters on Monday that, if murder allegations against former Pats tight end Aaron...
View ArticleCommuter trains between Wickford, Providence to see Friday interruptions for...
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Amtrak is replacing railroad ties in New England, and the work will affect MBTA commuter rail service between Providence, T.F. Green Airport and Wickford Junction...
View ArticleWeygand getting $51,707 "vacation payout,'' no replacement yet
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. - Former state legislator, lieutenant governor and congressman Robert Weygand will be leaving his top-level post at the University of Rhode Island -- for a new role...
View ArticleBoys & Girls Clubs, Providence mayor partner on free youth summer program
By Richard C. DujardinPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city's Boys & Girls Clubs have joined with the office of the mayor in announcing a free summer program for children and teens. They announced that free...
View ArticleEDC: More time needed to calculate payments to bond-rating agencies
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state's troubled Economic Development Corporation has been unable, over a two-week period, to account for how much, if anything, it paid the nation's top-bond...
View ArticleHundreds of bills headed Governor Chafee's way
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hundreds of bills approved in the final hours of the 2013 General Assembly session are headed Governor Chafee's way to be signed, vetoed or allowed to become law...
View Article85 cases now of mysterious illness linked to swimming at Spring Lake in...
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The number of illnesses associated with swimming at Spring Lake Beach in Burrillville on July 4 has grown to 85, with 10 of those hospitalized, the Rhode Island...
View ArticleShaws to close stores in Westerly, Woonsocket by Aug. 3
By Donita NaylorShaw's Supermarkets has announced it is closing its stores on Franklin Street in Westerly and on Diamond Hill Road in Woonsocket, along with four Massachusetts stores, one each in Fall...
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Two-alarm fire in Silver Lake neighborhood displaces eight people
By Richard C. Dujardin Providence Journal photo / Richard C. Dujardin Eight people, including two children, escaped a fire at 12 Lowell Ave. in the Silver Lake neighborhood. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Smoke...
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