Warwick Police investigating apparent double murder-suicide
By News staffWARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) -- Three people are dead after an apparent double murder-suicide in Warwick Saturday morning. Deputy Chief Michael Babula said that three people were found shot to...
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Three dead in Warwick in apparent case of domestic violence
By Gregory SmithProvidence Journal photo / Steve SzydlowskiThe house at 75 Kenway Ave., where the shootings occurred WARWICK, R.I. -- A man shot to death his ex-girlfriend and a man who was staying at...
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PolitiFact R.I. rules union claim on mandatory flu vaccinations False
By Mike McKinneyPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and a union representing health-care workers in hospitals and nursing homes recently set aside their court dispute over state...
View ArticleToday in RI history: Bills would allow credit-card use at bars
By Thomas J. MorganA year ago today: The Davis Site Trust, formed by several companies to carry out a latter phase of cleanup at the former Davis tire and chemical dump in Smithfield, asks a federal...
View ArticleSunday's weather: Mostly sunny, breezy
By News staffThere will be more sun than clouds Sunday. The combination of high temperatures around 41 degrees and winds out of the northwest at 10-15 mph, gusting to near 25 mph, will put wind chills...
View ArticleMan gets nearly 14 years for 3 bank robberies while on supervised release for...
By News staffCAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for three bank robberies he committed while in a supervised-release program...
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Gallery: The 57th Annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Newport
By News staffProvidence Journal photo / Frieda SquiresDrum major William Bullard leads the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the Annual St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday in Newport. Click to view the...
View ArticleDerailment suspends Amtrak service between New York and Boston; special train...
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Amtrak temporarily suspended service between New York and Boston after a freight train derailed near New Haven, Conn., this morning, blocking the tracks, the rail...
View ArticleAmtrak to restore NY-Boston service this afternoon
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Amtrak will restore service between New York and Boston this afternoon, the passenger service said in a news release. Trains will begin running north from New York's...
View ArticleR.I. Senate to hear bill to save father-daughter dance / Poll
By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island Senate committee is taking up a bill aimed at saving events like a father-daughter school dance that was canceled over concerns that gender-specific...
View ArticleR.I. gasoline prices drop for third week
By Jack Perry PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island have fallen for three straight weeks after dropping another three cents over the past seven days, according to AAA Southern New...
View ArticleRI State Police: Providence man with baby in car among 22 drivers arrrested...
By Maria ArmentalPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Twenty-two motorists were arrested by the State Police on charges of driving drunk over the St. Patrick's Day weekend. Among those arrested, the authorities said,...
View ArticleNo R.I. towers to be affected by air-traffic-control closures in federal...
By Paul Edward ParkerPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While the state of Connecticut scrambles to keep open six air-traffic-control towers that have been slated for closure because of automatic budget cuts, no...
View ArticleCall center that's moving to RI offers training slots to job seekers
By Kate BramsonPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Providence resident Toni Lynn Bonadie got some good news Monday, after interviewing with Tunstall Americas for a job in their new call center that's moving to...
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Slideshow: An excavator finishes Sandy's work at Green Hill Beach
By News staff Journal photo/ Bob BreidenbachThe Green Hill Beach Clubhouse on Green Hill Beach in South Kingstown was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy and is now being demolished. Brian Timpson of Timpson...
View ArticleViolations found in half of R.I. open records, open meetings complaints
By Katherine GreggPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Half of the 36 open-meetings complaints filed over the last year resulted in a finding by the attorney general's office of a violation of the state's open-meetings...
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FBI to discuss developments in 1990 Massachusetts art heist
By News staffBOSTON (AP) -- The FBI plans to announce investigative developments and a publicity campaign aimed at solving the 1990 theft of up to $500 million worth of art from Boston's Isabella...
View ArticleProvidence City Council education committee opposes NECAP as graduation...
By Linda BorgPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The City Council's education committee is asking the Rhode Island Department of Education to abandon using the New England Common Assessment Program as a requirement...
View ArticleURI hosts Aging and Health Week
By Tatiana PinaKINGSTON, R.I. - The University of Rhode Island is hosting an Aging and Health Week, where students can mingle, and learn about, older adults. On Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Memorial...
View ArticleWarwick school officials discipline students for tweets about Gist
By Linda BorgWARWICK, R.I. -- Warwick school officials are disciplining the handful of students who posted malicious comments about state education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist. Several students called...
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