North Providence News

A man was taken to a hospital after he was shot somewhere in Lincoln Woods State Park early Friday afternoon.

When a stranger chatted up a 19-year-old woman on the street in Centredale Saturday, the police say, he mentioned that he was from South Carolina.

A dog from Iraq has been placed in temporary foster care in North Providence. Barbara Lakeberg was working for a nonprofit in Iraq when she found Lucy in bad shape and pregnant.

Lucy, the dog from Iraq that was up for adoption because her owner must return to Iraq, has been placed in foster care in North Providence temporarily, Linda Monahan of ADOPT, or Animals Depend on People Too, said Thursday night.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Monahan said a Cranston family adopted Lucy but returned her for snapping when anyone came near while she was eating.

The Rhode Island Bar Association is hosting legal clinics to help guide senior citizens in authorizing someone to make health-care decisions on their behalf should they become unable make choices themselves.

A water main break Saturday left hundreds of households without water for much of the afternoon.

Thousands of Rhode Islanders are seeing higher water bills as the Providence Water Supply Board is increasing its rates by about 6 percent.

With the first committee hearings just a day away, the agenda is growing by the hour for this week's two-day General Assembly session.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Corrente Former U.S. Attorney Robert C. Corrente met privately Thursday morning with officials from the newly formed Moderate Party to discuss a potential bid for governor.

Trooper Edward J. Stenovitch, who pleaded no contest last week to assaulting an off-duty Providence police officer, resigned on Thursday from the Rhode Island State Police.

Two men were on the run from the North Providence police Friday after the driver of a Chevy Impala drove toward an officer who had pulled the car over for speeding and weaving back and forth on Smith Street Thursday night.

Some high-ranking officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency squeezed into tiny chairs at Marieville Elementary School here Thursday to watch fourth graders plan how they will save their families from the next natural disaster.

An owner of Mount Pleasant Hardware was looking over his financial records when he noticed some discrepancies.

A veteran Rhode Island State Police trooper has pleaded no contest to assaulting an off-duty Providence police sergeant at a fundraiser for a fallen officer last month.

Providence Journal file photo / Mary Murphy Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, left, watches as Monsignor Robert Evans cuts the cake in 2007 at the celebration after Evans' installation as pastor at St.

The Fraternal Order of Police has offered Mayor Charles A. Lombardi the settlement of 19 pending grievances filed by officers in exchange for several promotions that have been held up since spring at a savings to the town of $979,764 over the next 16 months, according to a letter from the union's attorney to the town's negotiating lawyer obtained ...

For many months, Mayor Charles A. Lombardi talked vaguely about his plans for a "reorganization" of town personnel, inserting the subject into discussions about crushing budget deficits, union contract language and whopping bills for employee overtime.

Mourners are gathered at our Lady of Grace Church in Johnston at this hour for the funeral of 6-year-old Marco Nieves.

The administration of Mayor Charles A. Lombardi went to Superior Court Tuesday to seek a judge's ruling on the mayor's authority to reduce the size of the police force.