PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man has been indicted in a scheme to fraudulently apply for unemployment funds and economic relief for small businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man charged with killing his father during an argument in the victim's Rhode Island apartment was held without bail at his arraignment Friday...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Citizens Financial Group Inc. (CFG) on Friday reported first-quarter net income of $611 million...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The developers of multiple offshore wind projects in the northeast will build a facility in the port of Providence to assemble the rigs for floating wind turbines...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A youth basketball coach in Rhode Island has been charged with sexually molesting a 13-year-old player, police said...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Department of Health announced Tuesday that it is pausing the administration of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines as federal authorities investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots in people who received the shot...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence police are investigating another shooting near the spot where a 21-year-old man was shot to death early Monday morning...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island on Monday expanded coronavirus vaccine eligibility to anyone age 40 and older who lives, works or goes to school in the state...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A 21-year-old man was found shot to death on Monday morning inside a vehicle in Providence, police said...

WEST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) — A New Hampshire man died in a car crash early Saturday morning in Rhode Island, state police said...

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its challenge to a court decision that said the federal government could not force two Rhode Island cities to turn local police into federal immigration agents...

PROVIDENCE (AP) — Rhode Island on Friday started expanding its COVID-19 vaccine rollout in areas that have been hit hardest by the pandemic...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Opening regional vaccination sites is critical to helping make sure that everyone in Rhode Island who wants a coronavirus shot, but who can't make it to a mass vaccination site, has access to one, Gov...

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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The body of a man who went missing when he fell into the water at a Rhode Island yacht club about a month ago has been found, police said Tuesday...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The head of the state agency that oversees a state-run medical facility that has come under fire for discharging some patients has announced that she is stepping down later this month...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is considering a state coral to join the official state bird, state fish and state insect...

Clara Lamore Walker, who swam for the U.S. at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, won three national championships, and later in life set hundreds of national and world swimming records in several masters age groups, has died...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island secretary of state is warning new small businesses about what she calls deceptive mailings from a company offering to help them obtain documents from the state at marked up prices...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former bookkeeper and office manager at a Rhode Island law firm who previously pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly three-quarters of a million dollars from her employer has been sentenced to five years in prison, federal prosecutors said...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would ban police from using chokeholds and require body-worn cameras for officers in every department statewide, among other things...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Providence police last year dealt with a huge increase in the number of calls for people going through a mental health crisis, which police and experts say was in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Public health officials are monitoring a recent rise in new confirmed COVID-19 cases among children ages 10 to 14 in Rhode Island...