Tyler Baron had recently gotten out on parole for three robbery convictions. But the police say he returned to his criminal habits Saturday afternoon, when he tried to rob two convenience stores by using a needle and syringe as a weapon.
Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. A judge is hearing arguments this week on whether the federal government should remain part of a lawsuit alleging abuse and neglect of a Chinese immigrant who died in the custody of a Rhode Island detention center two years ago.
"If you decide to drink and drive, you will lose" on Super Bowl Sunday, Central Falls Police Chief Joseph P. Moran III, the new president of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association, declared Friday.
Governor Carcieri 's spending plan for fiscal year 2011 would reduce state aid to schools by at least $27 million - the deepest cut to education aid in nearly two decades, since the height of Rhode Island's banking crisis.
An early morning water main break near the intersection of Pawtucket Avenue and Sterling Street has affected six homes Monday and left those residents without water until perhaps mid-afternoon. It's the second water main break for the Pawtucket Water Supply Board since Friday, when a 24-inch water main on Grotto Avenue broke, causing a drop in ...
The state may be missing a chance for millions in federal revenue by not leasing out empty cells in the Adult Correctional Institutions' Intake Service Center, a state senator said, but corrections officials said they've considered the idea and found it impractical, at least for now.
U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy raised almost $756,000 last year to campaign for a ninth term in Congress - roughly triple the contributions of his Republican opponent.
As he spoke on Wednesday morning inside the oldest building in downtown Providence, architectural historian and author William Morgan was looking toward the future - the immediate future, as in Thursday evening, when he would deliver a lecture at the Providence Preservation Society's annual meeting.
The state will get $575,000 from the federal government to finance work on the Blackstone River Bikeway, members of the state's congressional delegation announced Friday.
Rhode Islander Leroy S. Close had just started to doze off in the back seat of a white Toyota pickup coming down a mountain road into Port-au-Prince when he was awakened by a jolt.
A 20-year-old Providence man became the capital city's second homicide victim this year, after the police responded to a Friday night shooting at a local barber shop and found the young man lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
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