Coventry News

A state plan to house the homeless this winter is woefully inadequate and could lead to deaths when the weather gets colder, advocates said Tuesday.

An explosion and a rupture of the main dam at the Scituate Reservoir. An estimated 70-foot wall of water, at its peak, moving down the north branch of the Pawtuxet River.

Governor Carcieri and Col. Brendan Doherty, superintendent of the state police, inspect the new troopers Friday at their swearing-in ceremony at the Community College of Rhode Island, in Lincoln.

The Rhode Island State Police have identified the 19-year-old Coventry woman who was killed in an early morning crash in Cranston and have charged a 19-year-old man from Foxboro, Mass., with driving under the influence, death resulting.

Maxwell Mays, a Providence-born painter whose whimsical depictions of Rhode Island made him one of the state's best-known artists and who combined a playful folk-art style with an encyclopedic knowledge of local history, died Monday at age 91.

The commission charged with exploring how much money the state could reap if it legalizes marijuana and taxes its sales will meet for the first time Wednesday.

The 18-year-old Coventry man charged with strangling an acquaintance in her apartment at Cathedral Square on Nov.

Two days after vetoing a bill giving domestic partners the right to make funeral decisions for each other, a conciliatory Governor Carcieri told a gay-rights activist group he is open to supporting a domestic-partnership law that bestows many if not all of the rights of marriage, without the right to marry.

No. 1 seed Woonsocket will host No. 8 seed Lincoln at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Barry Field in the quarterfinal round of the Division II playoffs.

The Coventry man accused of strangling a woman in her apartment on Saturday was out on bail for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl only months ago.

It's a long way from Berlin, but this suburban town has a secret - shards of the infamous Berlin Wall, which the people of East and West Germany started tearing down 20 years ago Monday as the Soviet Union began to unravel.

During last week's special session held to complete some unfinished business, the legislature passed approximately 200 new laws.

A GROWING FUTURE: Representatives from the Audubon Society of Rhode Island and Independence Financial Partners teamed up to plant 100 sugar maples throughout the state.

Sherlock Holmes would perhaps have dubbed it "The Case of the Oviform Projectiles" and wound up baffled, but then again the great fictional detective didn't operate in the age of the Internet.

A Rhode Island woman urged senators Tuesday to ease bankruptcy rules for people devastated by medical debt, as she described the pain of losing a child and going broke from his health care bills.

The Rhode Island State Police say traffic is moving with no problems Thursday morning, the day the Rhode Island Department of Transportation opened the last highway segment of the relocated interchange of Route 195 and Route 95 in Providence .

Deputy House Majority Leader Raymond J. Sullivan Jr. on Thursday admitted driving drunk last April, changing his plea mid-trial after a District Court judge cleared the way for blood-alcohol test results to be admitted as evidence.

The police have identified the man who died after a car crash Wednesday night on Knotty Oak Road at the intersection with Washington Street as 82-year-old Joseph Palin of Scituate.

One person is dead after a car accident Wednesday night in Coventry. Police tell ABC 6 News the one-car crash happened around 730p Wednesday, at the intersection of Route 116 and Route 117 .

A handful of people addressed the media during a brief State House news conference this morning, speaking out against legislation they said would protect teacher salaries and benefits at the expense of children's education.