PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says protests outside a convicted child rapist’s Providence home violate a city ordinance.

Steven Brown, the executive director of the ACLU Rhode Island, said in a letter to Mayor Jorge Elorza that loud protests outside of Richard ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Providence man suspected of driving while intoxicated has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal crash on Interstate 95.

Rhode Island State Police say 31-year-old Anthony Correa fled the scene early Saturday. He was spotted shortly afterward by ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Citizens Financial Group Inc. (CFG) on Friday reported third-quarter earnings of $443 million.

The Providence, Rhode Island-based company said it had profit of 91 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 93 cents per share.

The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Electric scooters are back in Providence after being approved for deployment.

A city spokesperson confirmed the scooters operated by California-based companies Bird and Lime have been approved for city use. WPRI-TV

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island elementary school teacher has received a $25,000 award for her efforts in the classroom.

Fogarty Elementary School announced Wednesday that Michelle Johnson had been awarded the Milken Educator Award during a surprise ceremony. The program recognizes ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Federal regulators have approved construction of a $180 million liquefied natural gas facility on the Providence waterfront.

The Providence Journal

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Data from the Rhode Island Department of Revenue shows Newport topped the state in lodging tax revenue for the 2018 fiscal year, collecting $2.5 million.

The Newport Daily News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Textron Inc. (TXT) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $563 million.

The Providence, Rhode Island-based company said it had profit of $2.26 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 61 cents per share.

The results fell short of ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Police in Rhode Island say they are investigating narcotics at a pub in Cranston.

According to Cranston Police Col. Michael Winquist, investigators were searching the Knightsville Pub Wednesday and have arrest warrants for three people. WPRI-TV

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Some Providence city councilors are calling for Council President David Salvatore to apologize to two female colleagues after they say he yelled at them for postponing a vote.

Councilors say Salvatore confronted Councilwomen Jo-Ann Ryan and Carmen Castillo outside ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence school officials say 165 elementary and middle school students missed every day of school during an 11-day bus driver strike.

District spokeswoman Laura Hart

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence has agreed to still pay a private bus company $600,000 for the time its bus drivers went on strike and disrupted travel for thousands of students.

WPRI-TV

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The ringleader of a group that created and filled fraudulent prescriptions for about 21,000 opioid pills has been sentenced to six years in prison.

Robert Rose was also sentenced Monday to five years of probation.

Federal prosecutors say the 52-year-old ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The National Academy of Medicine says it has nominated a Providence doctor to serve as one of its 85 new members.

The Washington-based organization announced Monday that it was inducting Miriam Hospital and Brown University’s Dr. Josiah Rich as a member for his work ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A Rhode Island woman police say led officers on an early morning pursuit through several towns in two states has been held on $5,000 bail.

Irene Bublik, of Warren, pleaded not guilty Monday to multiple charges including assault and battery on a police officer, and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police in Providence are investigating a weekend shooting that landed a 29-year-old man in the hospital.

The victim, Christopher Otero, was shot multiple times outside an apartment building on Atlantic Avenue at about 1:40 p.m. Sunday.

He was transported to ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island’s gubernatorial candidates are taking part in a second debate.

It’s scheduled for Monday night at the University of Rhode Island.

Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo, Republican nominee Allan Fung, Independent Joe Trillo and Moderate Party candidate ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The school bus strike that disrupted travel for thousands of schoolchildren in Providence has officially ended.

School bus drivers will return to work on Monday after voting to approve a new contract Saturday that resolved the 11-day walkout. A tentative deal had ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island’s attorney general has launched a winter clothing collection drive with the Neighborhood Alliance of Pawtucket.

Attorney General Peter Kilmartin’s office and the alliance will be taking donations of winter apparel for the annual “Warm Hearts, Coats ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The death of a student at Providence College has prompted the school to cancel an annual celebration that kicks off the men’s and women’s basketball seasons.

The “Late Night Madness Celebration” had been scheduled for Saturday night.

The Rev. Ken Sicard, the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Providence VA Medical Center says more housing vouchers are available to help homeless veterans in Rhode Island and Massachusetts pay rent.

The medical center says local public housing authorities received nearly $220,000 to support 27 rental assistance ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A school bus company and its striking drivers’ union on Friday reached a tentative deal to end the strike that has lasted more than two weeks, Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza announced Friday evening.

Elorza said details of the agreement between bus company First ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Latest on the school bus strike in Providence (all times local):

5:30 p.m.

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza says a tentative deal has been reached to end a school bus strike that has lasted more than two weeks.

Elorza says bus company First Student and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence mayor: Union, school bus company reach tentative agreement to end a 2-week-old strike.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island State Police have arrested a Providence man they say had hundreds of marijuana plants and a gun in his home.

State police executed a search warrant on the home of 31-year-old Anthony Patti on Friday.

Investigators say they found more than 440 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island teenager has been convicted of murder in the shooting death of his mother’s boyfriend, whose burned body was found dumped in Massachusetts.

The Providence Journal reports that 18-year-old Xavier Vidot, of Cranston, was found guilty by a jury Friday of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities say a fire that torched several school buses in Providence is considered suspicious.

A spokesman for First Student, the company that owns the buses, says six to seven buses were destroyed in the fire reported at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday and others may ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The ex-wife of infamous Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci had her parking tickets forgiven during an appearance on a court television show.

The Providence Journal

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities say two Johnson & Wales University students were robbed at knifepoint in Providence.

The Providence Journal reports the students told police they ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Providence nightclub will remain closed for at least another week while police continue to investigate a September shooting there.

During a show-cause hearing in front of the Providence Board of Licenses on Wednesday, Steven Wright, an attorney representing the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Republican challenger Robert Flanders faced off in their first televised debate this week.

The candidates locked horns Tuesday night in Providence over questions provided by WPRI-TV reporters Tim White and Ted ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island is initiating legal action against state educational officials for failing to provide transport to school for students with disabilities during the ongoing Providence bus drivers’ strike.

The ACLU says schools are ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A third defendant involved in a large-scale illegal marijuana growing operation inside a converted mill building in Rhode Island has pleaded guilty.

Federal prosecutors say 54-year-old Irwan Anwar pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to manufacture 100 or more ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man already on Massachusetts’ sex offender registry has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for traveling to Rhode Island to engage in sexual activity with what he thought was a 15-year-old boy.

Federal prosecutors say 57-year-old Robert Eccleston, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A meeting with a federal mediator between striking school bus drivers in Providence and the private company overseeing the city’s school bus operations has ended without a resolution to the dispute.

First Student said Tuesday night that discussions with Teamsters ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Providence man police say was behind the wheel of a dump truck involved in a fatal crash is heading to court.

Police tell The Providence Journal that 25-year-old Brian Pagan Torres is scheduled for arraignment later Tuesday in connection with the crash early ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police say an early morning crash involving a landscaping company’s dump truck and two cars has left one person dead.

The crash in Providence occurred at about 12:30 a.m. Monday.

Police say the dump truck struck a sedan operated by 28-year-old Frank Perry Jr., ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A driver has crashed into a Rhode Island house after he was shot in the leg.

Authorities say the shooting happened Monday morning in Providence. Police say the 28-year-old man was shot in the leg by a person in another vehicle. Authorities say the man’s SUV struck a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — It’s unclear whether Rhode Island state agencies and officials can block users on social media sites following a federal court ruling.

The Providence Journal

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police broke up a rally by right-wing group calling itself Resist Marxism after a short confrontation with counter-protesters who decried the organization as a hate group.

No arrests were made and no injuries were reported during Saturday’s “Freedom Rally” on the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Attendance has dropped at Providence schools as a city-wide bus driver strike heads into its sixth day.

WPRI-TV reports that the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Three people who work at Rhode Island’s State House have filed a complaint alleging hostile treatment by a Republican lawmaker.

The House Minority staff members claimed Rep. Robert Lancia, of Cranston, created a “hostile work environment” in documents filed over the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A tanker truck carrying 11,000 gallons of gasoline has overturned on a Rhode Island highway ramp, spilling most of the fuel, some of which flowed into a river.

Authorities say the tanker rolled over on a ramp to Interstate 95 in Providence just after 7 p.m. ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who robbed a Rhode Island bank on Valentine’s Day last year has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison.

Federal prosecutors say 35-year-old Efrain Delacruz was also sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation for the Feb. 14, 2017 robbery at a ...