PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island State Police will hold a promotion and awards ceremony Wednesday at 6 p.m.
The ceremony will be held in the atrium of the Rhode Island Department of Administration Building, One Capitol Hill.
Raymond S. White, a 23-year veteran, will be promoted to lieutenant colonel. A [...]PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two city police officers have been put on administrative duty as the department investigates a reported beating of an unarmed suspect on Oct. 20, Chief Dean M. Esserman announced Monday evening.
The statement -- released by e-mail from Mayor David N. Cicilline's spokeswoman -- does not name [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I -- A Providence man who had led the city police on a foot chase through a cemetery and was found hiding in a dog house, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to being a felon in a possession of a firearm.
Adrian A. Aponte, 24, has prior felony [...]
By Michael P. McKinney
Journal Staff Writer
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Lincoln school officials are abandoning a proposal to extend kindergarten instruction to full-day after learning the state is projecting to cut state aid to the district.
However, the district will move forward with plans to reconfigure elementary schools under a "neighborhood" [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- A freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill remains in critical condition after being diagnosed with swine flu more than a week ago, said a spokeswoman for University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill.
Lillian Claire Chason, a 2009 Barrington high school graduate who [...]
By John Curran
Associated Press Writer
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Richard Phillips, the ship captain toasted as a hero after he was taken captive by Somali pirates, ignored repeated warnings last spring to keep his freighter at least 600 miles off the African coast because of the heightened risk of attack, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Shotgun deer hunting season on the mainland begins Saturday, the state Department of Environmental Management announced.
Deer can be hunted in both state land management areas and private land (with written permission from the land owner) through Dec. 13.
From Dec. 14 through Dec. 20, shotgun season continues [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Harvard University's law school has announced it will stop offering free tuition to students who opt to go into public- service law after graduation.
Dean Martha Minow said in an e-mail this week to students and faculty that the school will suspend its Public Service Initiative [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Delta Air Lines will eliminate direct service between Providence and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in February.
Delta said Tuesday that the cuts will also eliminate direct service to Montreal, Oklahoma City, Okla., Des Moines, Iowa and the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee.
Delta spokeswoman Kristin Baur says the cuts will [...]
Actor James Woods, brother of the late Michael Woods, applauds the jury in Kent County Superior Court where a settlement had just been announced in the negligence lawsuit against Kent Hospital. Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers
WARWICK, R.I. -- Kent Hospital has announced it will [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- All Division of Motor Vehicles offices will be closed to the public on Wednesdays, starting Dec. 9, to train the staff on a new computer system.
The DMV's main office in Pawtucket, however, will remain open for road exams. The safety and emissions garage, located on Melrose Street [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Local landmarks will be illuminated in red Tuesday as part of the (RED) campaign in observance of World AIDS Day.
The city's ceremony --- in partnership with AIDS Care Ocean State --- will include a candlelight vigil at the Bank of America Skating Center at 6:15 [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A cardiac specialist called to testify by Kent Hospital in a negligence lawsuit told a jury Monday morning that Dr. Kelli Naylor "practiced well above the standard of care for this gentleman" while she was treating Michael J. Woods for what became [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- The two victims of a home invasion Friday night have been identified as Gregory Howard and Michael Scully of 50 Vanderbilt Road, in the city's Hillsgrove section.
Howard, 23, and Scully, 30, were home with Howard's mother, Susan Howard, 52, when three masked men, one carrying [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence police say an elderly Lincoln woman jumped to her death at Providence Place mall last week.
Capt. James Desmarais said Creuz Elen Dehoyos, 79, jumped from an upper level of the mall's Stateside parking area Tuesday and landed in an interior section of the [...]
U.S. Army veteran Chris Pinto, 23, steps off the fishing vessel Revolution in Westport, Mass. On Friday, the Work Vessels for Veterans charity presented the 39-foot fishing boat to Pinto, who served two tours in Iraq as an infantryman. (AP Photo, New Bedford Standard Times, John [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri is asking Rhode Islanders to help dress the state's Heroes' Tree, which will be on display at the State House's State Room and is to be decorated with ornaments commemorating military service.
The tree is to be lit Friday, Dec. 4. But there's still time to' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Providence will join a number of cities around the world going red Tuesday as part of the (RED) campaign in observance of World AIDS Day.
The city's ceremony will include a candlelight vigil at the Bank of America Skating Center at 6:15 p.m.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Massachusetts man already facing state charges for allegedly trying to buy guns from an undercover Rhode Island state trooper was charged Tuesday with a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In the aftermath of the Governor's veto of legislation that would have given domestic partners the right to make funeral decisions for each other, Governor Carcieri is reminding residents that current law already allows people to designate a funeral planning agent.
"It has become abundantly clear that people'" [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. -- A North Providence man has filed a notice of intent to sue the city of Newport over an incident on Sept. 11 in which, he says, a uniformed city police officer shot him with a stun gun.
Under Rhode Island law, a claimant must give the city at [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A local man has been indicted by grand jury on charges of assault on a child and kidnapping with intent to molest the child, according to the state attorney general's office.
Richard D. Marold, 54, of 251 Long St., in Warwick was charged with kidnapping a minor under [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A West Warwick man convicted in September of slaying a neighbor over a debt was sentenced to life in prison, the attorney general's office announced.
Robert Payette, 47, formerly of 19 Maple Ave. in West Warwick, will have to serve 20 years before he is eligible' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever abandoned a dog last week in Johnston.
The dog (pictured right) was abandoned on Nov. 2 around 10:15 [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Former Cranston Police Chief Thomas Michael Harrington died Saturday. He was 74.
Born on July 20, 1935 to William and Catherine (Smith) Harrington, Harrington served in the Cranston Police Department for 30 years, the last three as chief, said Col. Marco Palombo Jr., the city's current chief of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision prohibiting an "adult" bookstore on the former site of a Bickford's restaurant.
In a decision written by Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg released Monday, the court found that Martel Investment Group's application violated the town's zoning ordinance [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Interfaith leaders in Rhode Island have called a press conference Friday afternoon to speak against a possible backlash against area Muslims in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings in Texas.
Several news agencies have reported that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist suspected of [...]
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Col. Brendan P. Doherty, the state police superintendent and commissioner of the department of public safety, will host a press conference Friday afternoon to address the rise in road-related fatalities. Sixty-seven people died in accidents in Rhode Island so far this year [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A youth was arrested Thursday evening after he allegedly assaulted a bus driver, according to Rhode Island Public Transit Authority officials and the Providence Police.
The alleged assault happened around 7:15 p.m.
Passengers on the Route 11/Broad Street bus were transferred to another bus.
[...]PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- About 40 cats were taken Thursday from a Murray Street apartment. Most will have to be euthanized, said David Holden, the city's animal control director.
Holden said he and other animal control officers went to the second-floor apartment at 68 Murray St. following a complaint by the [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A 16-year-old girl found unconscious in an Aetna Street house Tuesday afternoon remains in critical condition at Hasbro Children's Hospital, the police said.
Rescue crews responded to a report of an unknown medical situation at 5 Aetna St. at 3:33 p.m. on Tuesday, according to a statement issued [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The police are investigating a robbery at the Pawtucket Credit Union at 571 Smithfield Ave.
A woman entered the bank around 2:30 p.m. Thursday and passed a note to the teller. She fled on foot with an unknown amount of cash, Maj. Arthur Martins said. The [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The American Red Cross Rhode Island chapter has launched "Operation Bear Hugs," a new program to help families with children displaced by a fire.
"Almost every other day, one of our volunteer teams responds to a house or apartment fire, and in nearly one third of these" [...]
WARREN, R.I. -- A local couple were arrested on charges they swindled more than $300,000 from an elderly woman for whom they had been running errands, the state police said.
Jaime Resende, 62, and his wife, Maria Resende, 69, of 510 Child St., were arraigned Monday on felony charges of exploitation [...]
Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy
Firefighters and police look over the vehicle that jumped the barrier at the Thurbers Avenue exit Tuesday afternoon.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A car traveling north in the fast lane of Route 95 Tuesday lost control, spun around and hit a [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- A man died Monday when his car rolled over on Route 295 south, just north of Route 146 in Lincoln, throwing him from the car, the state police said.
The state police are withholding the man's identify pending notification of his family.
No other cars were involved in the' [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- A man died when his car rolled over on Route 295 south, just north of Route 146 in Lincoln, throwing him from the car, the state police said.
The state police are withholding the man's identify pending notification of his family.
No other cars were involved in the crash.
[...]RICHMOND, R.I. -- The Chariho Regional School District and its teachers' union have ratified a new three-year contract.
The new contract, set to expire in 2012, calls for a performance-based system, eliminates longevity pay for new hires, and freezes or reduces steps on the salary schedule except for top' [...]
By Jay Lindsay
Associated Press Writer
GLOUCESTER, Mass. -- Hundreds of fishermen from the Northeast rallied in front of the headquarters of federal fishery managers Friday, demanding changes in the "dysfunctional" management that they say is destroying their industry.
Some fishermen held signs reading "Let Fishermen Fish;" other signs pictured Adolf Hitler [...]
PROVIDENCE, .R.I. -- A 20-year-old man is being held without bail on charges he killed his girlfriend and mother of his baby girl.
353 Montgomery Ave.
Victor Arciliares was referred to the forensics unit Friday morning in District Court and is due back in court on Nov. 13 for a competency [...]
JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- An eastbound lane on the Pell Bridge to Newport will be closed Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a fire department exercise.
The Newport Fire Department, in coordination with the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority, will be training on the cables, catwalks and bridge [...]
By Maria Armental and Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writers
JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Four Providence men have been arrested on charges they broke into several houses in Johnston, or tried to, the police said.
Those arrested are:
• Jamie S. Johnson, 19, of 12 Claremont Ave., Apt. 2, who was charged with attempted [...]
HOPKINTON, R.I. -- Marc Johnson and Karen Windsor, co-directors of Foster Parrots, a rescue, adoption and sanctuary service, have been awarded this year's "Human Hero of the Year Award" from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The MSPCA-Angell Animal Hall of Fame gala dinner was held [...]
WESTERLY, R.I. -- The police are investigating a reported robbery at Shaws Supermarket.
A store clerk told the police a man walked into the supermarket around 3 p.m. Saturday, passed her a note with the word "robbery" written on it and told her he would shoot her.
No gun was [...]
By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will be making his third trip to Afghanistan to meet with American military leaders, civilians, and intelligence officials.
The Rhode Island Democrat, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is traveling with a Republican colleague, Sen. Richard Burr of [...]
By Margalit Fox
The New York Times
Theodore R. Sizer, one of the country's most prominent education-reform advocates who was formerly at Brown University, died Wednesday at his home in Harvard, Mass. He was 77.
The cause was, colon cancer, said his wife, Nancy Faust Sizer.
A former dean of the Harvard [...]
SOMERSET, Mass. -- A local man was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with breaking into a neighbor's apartment after the items stolen were recovered at a pawn shop.
Antonio Medeiros Jr., 25, of 1231 Wilbur Ave., Apt. 2, was arraigned in Fall River District Court on charges of breaking and entering [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Two Lincoln middle school students remain hospitalized after they were apparently exposed to contaminated food during a school trip, state health officials said.
Fifteen sixth graders have complained of a "diarrheal illness" and two have tested positive for E. coli 0157, according to Annemarie Beardsworth, a spokeswoman for [...]
