Pawtucket News

Mount St. Charles will hold its commencement ceremony June 3, 1 p.m., for 196 graduates, the largest graduating class in the school's history.

Pawtucket police say they have charged a 25-year-old Pawtucket man with driving under the influence, after his involvement in a rollover crash on Smithfield Avenue in Pawtucket early Sunday morning.

A Pawtucket man says the police have told him he is a suspect in the brutal November 2010 slaying of his mother, Pauline Buco.

Rhode Island has received $1.2 million in federal funds to clean up contaminated sites in Providence, Bristol and Pawtucket.

The Pawtucket Police Department is announcing an overall decline in crime of 8.6 percent from 2010 to 2011, including a sharp drop in juvenile incidents of almost 25 percent.

AN infamous Belper industrialist who illegally took British factory secrets to America is to be recognised with a blue plaque in the town.

PROVIDENCE -- Joseph Hulkow believed that people could change for the better, his friends say, and he was convinced of the courage it took to live a life of nonviolence.

As classes begin to enter their final sections of lessons for the year, many other events have signaled the near end of the year.

A year after local officials said they would appeal a surprising downgrade of the city's fire suppression rating, the rating remains unchanged.

Alex Dahlam, left, and Paul Medici of the New Urban Farmers work together to build a garden box on Friday, May 18 at a new community garden on the corner of Front Street and Central Avenue.

Honoring the men and women who have served in the military, this year's theme for the town's always-anticipated Memorial Day Parade is "All Gave Some, and Some Gave All." Rain or shine, the parade kicks off Monday, May 28, at 11 a.m. at Reservoir Avenue on the border of Pawtucket and ends a mile down the road at the former Senior Center at 40 ... (more)

For weeks, members of the city's fire union have been papering the city with flyers warning of the potential consequences from Mayor Don Grebien's controversial money-saving shutdown of Engine 4 on Cottage Street.

Steven Bishop, of Parkside Avenue, is one of those residents who will see his property taxes increase by almost $1,000 a year due to a new equalized tax rate and planned property tax increase.

A year ago today: The new chairman of the powerful House Finance Committee is proposing to merge the state's two public education boards -- the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Governors for Higher Education.

The owner of a Pawtucket auto body shop at the center of a fraud investigation was arraigned Monday on three felony counts.

The Pawtucket police are searching for the man who held up the One Stop Deli and Market at gunpoint Sunday night.

"They cut a hole in the roof, took out windows and flames kind of fired up again and they were pouring out of the front," said neighbor Shelley Harvey.

A A Cranston woman faces one count of failing to remain at the scene of an accident following her May 11 arrest by Johnston Police .

Two families have been displaced and a firefighter hurt in a blaze that severely damaged the two-story house, firefighters said.

From left: Howard Ben Tre's work at Brown University, his studio in Pawtucket, and the artist with one of his works at the Rhode Island Convention Center.