WESTERLY, R.I. -- A 65-year-old Westerly man died Sunday after he was hit by a pickup driven by a Hopkinton man, 80, Westerly police said Monday.
David Lauria of High Street was struck on High Street near Narragansett Avenue by a Nissan pickup driven by George Hill of Ashaway.
Lauria [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Investigators from several communities were questioning a break-in suspect Monday after Narragansett police arrested him early in the morning.
Scott Gavitt, 28, of 31 Sykes St., Warwick, is charged with breaking into two gas stations in South Kingstown, according to Capt. Jeff S. Allen of the South [...]
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NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- An open house will be Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at one of Rhode Island's first LEED-certified homes.
The Anawan Cliffs house recently won [...]
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- A South Kingstown man was charged with driving under the influence and refusing an alcohol test early Tuesday after Narragansett police found him asleep in the driver's seat of his car, the engine running, in a left-turn lane near the Salt Pond Shopping Center.
Marcus Drew Robinson, 26, [...]
The Narragansett Indians are still interested in Navy land on Aquidneck Island despite an announcement Monday of a decision by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to withdraw an application to acquire property for the tribe.
John Brown, medicine man in training, said the tribe did not support the [...]
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has withdrawn its application on behalf of the Narragansett Indian Tribe seeking acquisition of the 260 acres of surplus property as identified at Naval Station Newport, according to a statement from the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission (AIPC) late this afternoon. From the press release:
What [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - The Bureau of Indian Affairs has abandoned its bid to acquire excess Navy property on Aquidneck Island on behalf of the Narragansett Indian Tribe.
The bureau said in a letter made public Monday that it was no longer pursuing an application for the property. It did not [...]
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- Add Scott Rothstein's side-by-side Narragansett houses to the list of the alleged Ponzi scheme operator's properties that federal prosecutors are trying to get their hands on.
Prosecutors filed an amended forfeiture suit Friday against the disgraced Florida lawyer, adding four multimillion-dollar properties to their seizure list, The [...]
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The future tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry docks at Promet Marine Services, Allen's Avenue, Providence after a trip up Narragansett Bay from Newport.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The hull of the Oliver Hazard Perry was towed from Newport to the Port of [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The Fire Department here expected to launch two rescue boats onto Narragansett Bay sometime around 8 a.m. Wednesday to continue searching for a missing West Warwick fisherman, despite the fact that the U.S. Coast Guard called off its search Tuesday evening as darkness fell over [...]
As darkness fell over Narragansett Bay on Tuesday, the Coast Guard called off the search for Chester Kidd, the 47-year-old clammer from West Warwick who apparently drowned after issuing a distress call on Monday.
``Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mr. Kidd," said Scott Backholm, the search and" [...]
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Barrington police plan to examine videotape from two drugstores, hoping to put the bite on a pair of shoplifters who stole $1,215 worth of toothbrushes in separate incidents last week. A Narragansett store was hit by a similar theft, although the police there [...]
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The U.S. Coast Guard has identified the fisherman who has been the object of an intensive search since he reported that his 18-foot boat was taking on water in Narragansett Bay as Chester Kidd, 47, of West Warwick.
Kidd had been fishing for quahog clams between Rocky Point [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- Rescue crews are searching the waters of Upper Narragansett Bay Monday evening for a missing clammer.
The clammer, whom authorities have not yet named, called a friend about 1:30 p.m. saying that he was having engine trouble and that his 19-foot skiff was in danger of taking on [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Narragansett father who burned to death in his pickup truck two weeks ago had caused the fire that killed him, the state fire marshal's office determined on Monday.
Terence W. Ashworth, 37, died in a fire that erupted in his Ford truck at the park-and-ride off [...]
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 [...]
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University of Rhode Island students will ask a federal judge to reject as unconstitutional a Narragansett ordinance allowing police to put orange stickers on unruly homes. Lawyers for the students will make their argument before U.S. District Court Judge William Smith.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - University of Rhode Island students will ask a federal judge Tuesday to reject as unconstitutional a Narragansett ordinance allowing police to put orange stickers on unruly homes.
Lawyers for the students will make their argument before U.S. District Court Judge William Smith.
Police have cited more than [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The man who died in a burning pickup at the park-and-ride on Boston Neck Road early Wednesday morning has been identified as Terence W. Ashworth, 37, a member of the Narragansett School Committee.
Meredith Ashworth, his wife of 11 years, talked about his love and kindness [...]
