Jamestown News

Thirty-three years before he would hear his own jury convict him of murder, David Swain sat still in a courtroom gallery in Minnesota as a jury foreman declared his brother Richard guilty of bludgeoning to death a woman on an Easter night.

The state Supreme Court has refused to grant post-conviction relief to a former golf pro who was found guilty on a variety of charges stemming from the armed abduction and kidnapping of three teenagers 30 years ago.

Rhode Island schools continue to experience high absenteeism as the swine flu rampages through the state.

Four Rhode Island communities will be holding municipal elections Tuesday. Voters will choose mayors and other leaders in Woonsocket and Central Falls.

A Rhode Island man convicted of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba trip should serve at least 25 years in prison before getting parole, prosecutors in the British Virgin Islands told a judge on Wednesday.

The Rhode Island Turnpike & Bridge Authority has set a Dec. 31 deadline for redeeming Pell Bridge tokens.

Voters in four Rhode Island municipalities will be going to the polls Tuesday, three picking mayors and/or municipal councils and in the fourth deciding the fate of a $10-million sewer bond.

Newport County students explore African and Afro-Caribbean rhythms and culture through free performances and workshops Richard W. Dionne Jr.

On a warm fall morning just east of Wickford Harbor, steel cables on the research vessel Cap'n Bert whir as a winch pulls aboard a 20-foot net that the vessel towed for half an hour along the bottom of Narragansett Bay.

Rhode Island is a small state custom-made, it would seem, for walking, by the ocean, through the countryside, or down city streets.

After four years of political wrangling, hundreds of public and internal meetings, several revisions, and one determined planning department, consultant team, and Mayor,A the City of Miami made urban planning history tonight by adopting the largest known application of a form-based code.

Journal file photo David Swain A former Jamestown councilman on trial for murdering his wife during a scuba-diving vacation in the British Virgin Islands will take the witness stand, according to his lawyer.

Curt Columbus, artistic director of Trinity Rep, is assisted by Jennifer Salcido during a live chat with projo.com readers in the Providence Journal newsroom on Thursday afternoon.

Preliminary budget estimates for the School Department show a million-dollar surplus for the last fiscal year.

The state Department of Environmental Management has announced that seasonal shellfish openings will take effect at sunrise Tuesday.

The man who bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars from friends, strangers and "future" family members by purporting to variously be a Red Sox scout, real estate investor and a cancer patient, was sentenced Thursday after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.

A Rhode Island man accused of killing his wife while scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands was escorted into a courtroom in handcuffs Wednesday for the start of his murder trial.

Residents of four Rhode Island communities must register to vote this weekend in order to participate in municipal elections next month.

Saturday is the last day for residents of Central Falls, Jamestown, North Kingstown, and Woonsocket to register to vote in order to be eligible to cast ballots in the Nov.

On a recent visit to the Jamestown Library, I happened upon one of the most cheerful statistics I've heard in quite some time.