Suspect in Johnston double-homicide pleads not guilty
By Mark ReynoldsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 28-year-old man who is accused of fatally shooting two women -- a former girlfriend and her daughter -- as well as kidnapping a 2-year-old boy from the same...
View ArticleWarwick police investigating burglary recover three firearms
By Tatiana PinaWARWICK, R.I. -- Police recovered three stolen firearms and arrested three people this weekend in connection with a burglary, according to Warwick police. Late Friday night, Warwick...
View ArticleSpeculation mounts about possible settlement in R.I. pension lawsuit
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Peder Schaefer, the associate director of the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns asked public officials at an open meeting Monday whether there has been a...
View ArticleProvidence firefighters deal with three blazes
By Mike McKinneyPROVIDENCE -- Firefighters in Providence were busy Sunday into Monday. At 8:06 p.m. Sunday, they responded to a fire on the first floor of a wood-frame apartment building at 171 Hanover...
View ArticleTables turn on robbers when Providence store owner fights back
By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On a cold and blustery Sunday night, two men with a gun walked into a convenience store in Mount Pleasant, ready for an easy robbery. They weren't prepared to be...
View ArticleDriver charged, released on $10,000 bail in fatal South Kingstown crash
By Donita NaylorSOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Zachary Thole, 20, the suspect in a suspected drunken driving death in Richmond on Friday, was released Monday on $10,000 cash of $100,000 surety bail after...
View ArticleReport: RI cities, towns, to spend $3.1 billion in retiree health-care costs
By Randal EdgarPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island cities and towns have made some progress in paring down the cost of their promises to cover retiree health care, but they still have a long way to go,...
View ArticleT.F. Green Airport: Allow extra time for holiday travel
By Barbara PolichettiWARWICK, R.I. - With passenger numbers expected to spike over the Thanksgiving weekend, officials at T.F. Green Airport are advising travelers to allow extra time to get from...
View ArticleR.I. qualifies for extended federal unemployment benefits, could impact 1,500...
By Kate BramsonPROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island has again qualified for a fourth tier of emergency federal unemployment benefits for unemployed individuals because the state's unemployment rate ticked...
View ArticleMan who set own gym on fire gets 9 years to serve
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A man who set fire to a gym he owned in Pawtucket has been sentenced to prison. Seventy-six-year-old Gary Gaudreau was found guilty in September of setting fire to...
View ArticleAmtrak puts on extra trains for Thanksgiving travel
By Donita NaylorWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak wants travelers to know that, by putting on every available passenger car, it has seats available for Thanksgiving travel. With a northeaster forecast to...
View ArticleProvidence's Alvarez High School spared; West Broadway will be reopened as a...
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Supt. Susan Lusi said she has taken Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School off the table for conversion into a middle school and instead will recommend reopening West...
View ArticleHeavy fire in Providence tenement brought under control
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Firefighters late Monday were battling a blaze in a 2-1/2-story tenement at 67 Bergen St. Firefighters were ordered to evacuate the structure shortly after arriving...
View ArticleR.I. sales tax on liquor and art ends Sunday
By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Just in time for the holiday season, Rhode Island is eliminating the state sales tax on certain alcohol and artwork starting this Sunday. The tax break is...
View ArticleRIRRC collecting left over cooking oil waste
By Tatiana PinaJOHNSTON, R.I. - - With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and many Rhode Islanders planning to deep fry turkeys this holiday, Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation is encouraging...
View ArticleTeen admits to killing 3 people in Providence, could face 6 life sentences
By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One of the two teenagers accused in a cold-blooded murder of a young couple and their friend in Providence last year pleaded to the killings. Russell Burrell, 18,...
View ArticleCaution holiday drivers: High wind, heavy rain likely for RI Tuesday through...
By Thomas J. MorganPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning and a flood watch for Tuesday and Wednesday for all R.I. counties. Heavy rain amounting to 1 to 3...
View ArticleR.I. labor department may limit biweekly pay rule to 2 years
By Paul GrimaldiPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The R.I. Department of Labor and Training is considering rules that would cap to two years the length of time employers could pay their workers biweekly. Biweekly...
View ArticleR.I. to spend $150,000 to develop apprenticeship programs in manufacturing,...
By Kate BramsonPROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Governor's Workforce Board has voted to spend as much as $150,000 out of the state's general revenue to develop two new nontraditional apprenticeship programs --...
View ArticleEleven bus routes will detour around Pawtucket 5K Thursday
By Donita NaylorPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Eleven bus routes that travel on Roosevelt Avenue in Pawtucket will be detoured for the Family Turkey Trot on Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m., officials at the Rhode...
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