A man who was charged recently with the gunpoint robbery of four people coming from a church meeting now faces additional charges in what a police lieutenant calls a reign of terror in the West End.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ The mayors of Rhode Island's four largest cities have asked Gov.

Police tell WPRI-TV that the chase started Monday morning in Providence when a pickup truck crashed into a home on Wood Street, then fled the scene.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. a ' Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after studentsa TM interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.

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The Providence Journal Co. is studying the possibility of charging for a portion of the news and information its Web site, projo.com. Howard Sutton, The Journal Co.'s CEO and publisher, said Wednesday that the company has assembled an internal team of senior managers to examine a potential free and paid model for the Web site.

A man who suffered a head injury while being arrested has filed a brutality complaint against a Providence police officer.

The Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra kicks off its season this weekend with music of Bach.

MICHELLE R. SMITH After Kennedy flap, clergy abuse victims say RI bishop not doing enough to protect kids PROVIDENCE, R.I. - PROVIDENCE, R.I. a ' Clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters said Tuesday that Rhode Island 's Roman Catholic bishop is not doing enough to protect children from pedophile priests even as he's taken on Democratic Rep.

A 12-year-old boy was pummeled by his mother and whipped with a belt for being "disrespectful" to her, while a 7-year-old adopted boy was beaten with a belt by his father's girlfriend for not completing his homework properly, said Lt.

Nearly 90 percent of medical journals with relatively high impact factors have policies addressing author conflict of interest available for public review, according to a report in the November 25 issue of JAMA .

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.

Matthews asked the bishop what kind of laws he would write if he were a member of Congress.

The smash Broadway musical Rent will be coming to Providence Performing Arts Center on November 17 and will run though November 22.

Millar says the officer told him it was a ``joke,'' and later told a paramedic the weapon discharged ``accidentally.'' NEWPORT, R.I. _ A North Providence man who claims a Newport police officer shot him with a stun gun has filed a notice of intent to sue the city.

A federal magistrate in Massachusetts is recommending that the brother of Providence Mayor David Cicilline remain in prison.

The American Renaissance encompassed art, architecture, and design from about 1876 to 1914.

A "sordid" chapter in the city's history came quietly to a close this week as the state Supreme Court dismissed with prejudice an appeal by the Inge Co., which had sued the city 27 years ago alleging that it breached its contract to provide the company with sludge from its sewage treatment plant.

The recyclable materials the city sends to the landfill increased by 20 percent last week, while the trash picked up plummeted by 63 percent, according to city data on the first week of its new mandatory recycling policy.

Gov. Don Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression.