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.
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.
EXETER, R.I. -- An Exeter man has been charged with firing a gun in a compact area and with disorderly conduct after the Rhode Island State Police say he apparently fired a shotgun into the wall of a bedroom after an argument over the telephone with his girlfriend.
Harold Brooks, 33, [...]
The Rhode Island State Police say they will be cracking down on seatbelt and child restraint violations this Thanksgiving holiday as part of a national ``zero tolerance'' enforcement strategy.
It is expected that 377 million people will be traveling on the nation's highways this weekend.
The Rhode Island State Police, along with [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Thirty-six police recruits stood out among 1,923 applicants.
On Friday, those 36 will graduate from the Rhode Island State Police Training Academy.
The new state troopers have worked 22 weeks preparing for their new careers. On June 22, they began their intensive, paramilitary training, according to Lt. [...]
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 [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The state police have charged a Cranston man with possession of child pornography, it was announced on Tuesday.
Michael J. Pappas, age 37, of 1890 Broad St., Apartment 220, was taken into custody on Friday by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The Woonsocket man who died Monday morning after jumping onto Route 95 from a highway overpass had intentionally crashed his car just moments before in an attempt to kill himself and perhaps his girlfriend, the Rhode Island State Police now say.
Journal photo/ Steve Szydlowski
A fatal incident near exit 16 on Route 95 north Monday morning forced the Rhode Island State Police to close a section of the highway and divert traffic onto Route 10.
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A man who leaped to [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former high-ranking Rhode Island state police official has been sworn in as the new U.S. Marshal.
Steven O'Donnell was sworn in Friday at the federal courthouse in downtown Providence.
O'Donnell was recommended by the state's Democratic senators, Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed, and then nominated [...]
On the local front:
Paiva WeedA year ago today:
Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed wins the endorsement of her fellow Democrats to go where no woman has gone before at the Rhode Island State House: to the heights of legislative power as [...]
By Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Interfaith leaders gathered at a news conference Friday at the Jewish Community Center to defend Rhode Island's Muslim community in the aftermath of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Rev. Donald Anderson, executive minister of the Rhode Island State [...]
Governor Carcieri signs legislation making indoor prostitution illegal in Rhode Island Tuesday. Among those with the governor, from left, are: state Sen. Paul V. Jabour, Rhode Island State Police Col. Brendan Doherty, Attorney General Patrick Lynch, First Lady Sue Carcieri, state Rep. Elaine Coderre, state Rep. Joanne [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- We're in the midst of deer mating season, and with that has come the problem of more car-deer accidents, according to the Rhode Island State Police.
On Monday night, two motorists traveling on Route 146 struck deer, according to Lt. Arnold "Skip" Buxton.
No injuries were reported.' [...]
Three Rhode Island State Police troopers have swept a national law-enforcement fitness contest, taking six first-place awards in the 2009 LawFit Trooper Challenge in Fairfax, Va.
Competing for Rhode Island were G. Thomas Chabot and Meredith Zenowich, both assigned to the Hope Valley barracks, and Joy Younkin, who helps teach [...]
NORTH SCITUATE, R.I. -- Trooper Edward J. Stenovitch, who pleaded no contest last week to assaulting an off-duty Providence police sergeant, resigned Thursday from the Rhode Island State Police.
Col. Brendan P. Doherty said he accepted the veteran trooper's resignation after meeting with him and his lawyer, John D. [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The call will go out from the State House on Tuesday for Rhode Islanders to stay healthy by seeing primary-care doctors, and for those without insurance to take advantage of a variety of programs that provide free or reduced-cost health care.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A woman is being taken to an area hospital with minor injuries after a one-car accident on Route 95 north in the vicinity of exit 29, according to the Rhode Island State Police.
The accident at 8:37 a.m. Friday prompted the police to close two lanes on the [...]
