Johnston News

Governor Carcieri went on the defensive Tuesday, as city and town leaders slammed him for proposing a $125-million mid-year aid cut that - in their eyes - dumps the state's massive budget troubles on their backs and raises the potential for "devastating" local tax increases and layoffs.

Just off a highway overpass, the Cadillac Lounge's pink neon lights still beckon.

Johnston writer-director Panos Trikoulis' made-in-Rhode-Island film "The Mailbox Fairy" will have its world premiere Sunday at Cranston's refurbished Park Theatre, 848 Park Ave.

East Greenwich police said Monday that they have an arrest warrant for a second suspect in a home invasion.

Rudy Pauls in the Dec. 1 episode of "Biggest Loser" weighed in at 253 pounds, having lost 189 pounds.

The state police have arrested six women and eight men under the state's new prostitution law, which bans indoor solicitation.

A former worker for Rhode Island's trash agency whose job was to visit schools and encourage children to recycle has been arrested for allegedly falsifying mileage forms.

Crystal Sullivan entered her plea Wednesday to a charge of failing to report a death, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison.

Lisa Torres targeted friends and associates in the Dominican community, prosecutors say.

Edward "Buckles" Melise walked out of U.S. District Court Monday morning free on $50,000 surety bail, after being arrested Monday and charged with selling oxycodone.

On the northwestern edge of town, in the village of Chopmist, emergency dispatch tones squawked from Fire Chief Dennis Gaffney's scanner.

One of my favorites is a figurine called "Agita." It features a portly snowman holding a torpedo-roll grinder.

A flurry of calls came in to the state police on Thursday at 1:59 a.m. reporting a vehicle traveling the wrong way on Route 295 north in the high-speed lane near the Smithfield-Johnston line.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Trees have been downed Thursday morning by strong winds in Johnston and Scituate, according to the police in those towns.

Johnston police said a man made up a story about a dog being abandoned in a parking lot.

Protecting property in the face of winter's icy blasts always has been challenging, but the recession may make doing so even more challenging, say some loss-control experts.

While the town's firefighters wait for a new contract, they will have to pay more money for their healthcare benefits, town officials said Friday.

While some of the Station fire victims won't be getting much from the $176 million that's been offered to settle their lawsuits, a court-appointed special master says that it was in the best interests of the plaintiffs not to go to trial because some of the big-pocket defendants probably would not have been held liable by a jury.

The Gallery at Art and Soul is now featuring work from three Rhode Island women through the end of November.

His phone has been shut off for non-payment. The utility company is threatening to turn off the heat and lights.