Enjoy the sun, a change is coming
By Peter PhippsGo fly a kite. Sunday will be a perfect day for it with plenty of sun and gusts of up to 28 mph. It will also be fairly warm with a high of 42, according to our weather partners at WPRI....
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Congregation of fire-damaged Woonsocket church holds Sunday services in rectory
By News staff Journal Photos / Kathy Borchers Congregants kiss a cross held by Father Anthony Perkins. WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Services were held Sunday in a building behind St. Michael Ukranian Orthodox...
View ArticleAttempted suicides in R.I.-licensed youth group homes a cry for help
By Lynn ArditiPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three youth living at state-licensed group homes this year attempted suicide. Rhode Island Child Advocate Regina M. Costa says the suicide attempts at group homes in...
View ArticleArmed robber tries to escape in East Providence police car
By Barbara PolichettiEAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Police have charged a 25-year-old man with multiple felonies, saying he robbed a Domino's Pizza on Pawtucket Avenue at gunpoint, then tried to use a police...
View ArticleEast Providence police investigate stabbing of two brothers
By Barbara PolichettiEAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Police are investigating an assault on two brothers who were walking along Crescent View Avenue shortly before 1 a.m. Detective Lt. Michael David said that...
View ArticleTwo injured in Saturday-morning stabbing at a Providence nightclub
By Alisha A. PinaPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City officers found a man stabbed while trying to control a crowd and several fights outside a Broad Street nightclub early Saturday morning. Lt. Oscar Perez said...
View ArticleR.I. ACLU, other groups ask Providence mayor to veto nuisance ordinance
By Alisha A. PinaPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state ACLU and three other organizations are asking Mayor Angel Taveras to veto an ordinance created to help neighborhoods with houses that repeatedly have...
View ArticleUtility worker pierced pipe before Springfield gas blast
By News staffSPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A natural-gas explosion that injured 18 people and damaged 42 buildings in Springfield's entertainment district was blamed Sunday on a utility worker who...
View ArticleNo PowerBall winner; jackpot increases to record $425 million
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Lottery officials say nobody has won the PowerBall jackpot, and the top prize will now increase to about $425 million for the next drawing, the largest jackpot...
View ArticleRed Cross aids families displaced by West Warwick fire
By Paul GrimaldiWEST WARWICK, R.I. -- The American Red Cross is providing emergency housing and food aid to six people displaced by a fire Saturday in West Warwick. Four adults and two children were...
View ArticleCranston council says residents can raise chickens
By News staffChicken ordinance approved for Cranston By Courtney Caligiuri CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) -- Residents in Cranston can now have fresh eggs daily from their own property. The city council...
View ArticleYes, Rhode Island, there is a State House tree lighting ceremony on the way
By Maria ArmentalPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There will be a tree lighting ceremony after all. A day after Governor Chafee's spokeswoman said no ceremony would be held this year, the governor's office released...
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Photo: Untrimming the Christmas tree at Providence City Hall
By News staff Journal photo/ Mary MurphyVinny Baldini, in the bucket, a tree trimmer, and Jerry Ducharme, the crew leader for workers from the City of Providence's Forestry Department, add branches to...
View ArticleWoonsocket man to be paroled 13 years after murder
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Woonsocket man convicted of a 1999 "thrill killing" is scheduled to be released on parole next month, more than 20 years before his original release date....
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Frontrunner in Central Falls mayoral race declines to debate opponent
By W. Zachary Malinowski JAMES DIOSSA JOSEPH P. MORAN III CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- James A. Diossa, frontrunner to be the next mayor of the state's poorest city, has turned down an opportunity to debate...
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UMASS Dartmouth gives alumni award to Naval Warfare technical director
By Maria Armental Photo courtesy of Naval Undersea Warfare Center Donald McCormack DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Donald McCormack, technical director of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, received this year's...
View ArticleFundraisers tonight -- in same location -- for both Central Falls mayoral...
By W. Zachary MalinowskiCENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- The candidates battling to be the next mayor of Central Falls will participate in fundraisers tonight at The Madeira Club in the city's north end....
View ArticleTroubled Providence anti-poverty agency reorganizes as new nonprofit
By Gregory SmithPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new nonprofit corporation has been created to replace the financially enfeebled Providence Community Action Agency, and the new entity has named a longtime housing...
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Seeing snow? Post your R.I. weather reports, pics on...
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Alexandra Ziemba, of Woonsocket, walks along Railroad Street on her way to catch a bus to school at CCRI. Light precipitation is...
View ArticleBig East adding Tulane (all sports), East Carolina (football only)
By Mike McDermottStaff and Wire Reports Tulane is joining the Providence-based Big East as a full member in 2014 and East Carolina will also be joining the rebuilding conference for football only, The...
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