BARRINGTON, R.I. --- A high-speed chase early Tuesday ended when an East Providence motorist crashed his car into the front of the Center Ace Hardware store at 156 County Rd.
Barrington Police later charged Gregory T. Bone, 20, of 28 Reardon Ave., Riverside, with driving under the influence, refusal [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An East Providence man is in Providence police custody following a chase that made its way through four communities early Monday.
John Darosa, 20, of 40 Wannissett Ave. in Riverside, is charged with eluding the police, driving on a suspended license and refusal to take a chemical [...]
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 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Woonsocket man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal robbery and gun charges for his role in holding up a Providence man and stealing more than a pound of marijuana and $2,800 from him.
Robert Beauparlant, 26, also pleaded guilty to a separate felony count of being a felon [...]
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
The Providence police have released the identity of
a 26-year-old Providence man who was shot death early Friday morning outside Club Platinum in the Washington Park neighborhood.
Henry Vargas, of 18 Burnside Street, and another person had an argument inside the club that night, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for robbing one bank and attempting to rob another.
Craig Shacklock was sentenced Friday to 92 months in federal prison.
The 52-year-old Providence man pleaded guilty in August to robbing a teller at a [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A man has received a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of drug and weapons charges, it was announced on Tuesday by U.S. Attorney Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith sentenced Stiven F. Polanco, 22, of Providence, on Friday in U.S. District [...]
