Providence News

Providence police say that officers attempted to stop a reported stolen Cadillac on Manton Avenue in Olneville around 1 a.m., but the driver fled west on Manton Avenue with police in pursuit.

Assembly OKs background checks for school volunteers Legislation has been approved in both the House and the Senate that will require any individuals who are current or prospective volunteers of a school department and who may have direct and/or unmonitored contact with students or children on school premises to undergo a state criminal background ... (more)

Join Lila Delman for an Open House Weekend, featuring open houses all over Rhode Island.

Forecast discussion: After a cold front passed through Rhode Island earlier this afternoon, we received numerous showers and locally heavy periods of rain.

With unemployment still high, many Rhode Islanders are looking for work, and the NBC 10 I-Team learned scammers are taking advantage of job hunters.

Itching to do some house hunting? Want to know what open houses are going on this weekend? Check East Providence Patch each week for our roundup of select open houses every weekend.

New tax rates have been set in East Providence for the 2014 fiscal year. Tax Assessor Steve Hazard said the new individual tax rates are $22.78 per $1,000 of assessed valuation on residential property and $25.21 per $1,000 of assessed valuation on commercial property.

The state Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of a Providence man in the killing of a 15-year-old girl who was gunned down the day before she was to testify against him in another murder case.

The mayor of Providence says he is concerned about using a standardized test to determine whether high school students are ready to graduate.

If Queen and AC/DC could have a babyit's name would be the Darkness. And with that combination of rock and roll DNA, you really can't go wrong.

He was interested in the secretary of state office, but Providence City Councilman Terrence M. Hassett said Thursday there is unfinished business in the capital city that he wants to see through.

The police arrested Rawlins Cummings, 35, of 69 Waltham St., Pawtucket, in the hallway of an apartment house at 222 Mineral Spring Ave., Saturday after a resident there said she saw him trying to climb through her dining room window.

A Providence lawyer who specializes in drunken driving cases has been sentenced to additional time without her driver's license, probation and alcohol counseling after pleading no contest to a DUI charge.

"Previous studies examining gastric reflux and cancers of the head and neck have generated mixed results," study author Dr.

Upgraded charges have been filed against a Brown University wrestler accused of participating in a fight that left a university basketball player critically injured.

Bread. A nice tomato. A couple of slices of your favorite lettuce. Smoky, crisp bacon.

Usually, legislation is introduced during the General Assembly session and may languish for quite awhile before a committee hearing is scheduled to consider a bill.

Forecast discussion: After a day of mostly cloudy skies, cooler air stayed in Providence, keeping our temperatures cooler than Tuesday's highs.

We're in his office at the Providence Public Safety Complex and he's talking about the department's current recruiting drive - its first since 2010.

TUESDAY, May 21 -- Urban elementary school children with poorly controlled asthma are likely to experience sleep problems and suffer academically, new research indicates.