Providence News

Three juveniles have been sentenced in Family Court for their roles in an unprovoked attack on a Massachusetts family at Providence Place mall.

A registered sex offender is back in prison after police said he tried to lure an 8-year-old girl away from her parents at the American Expo Flea Market .

Students in Providence and East Greenwich, some as young as kindergartners, raised $3,142 in separate fundraisers to benefit Haiti.

School Supt. Mario Cirillo recommended last night that layoff notices be sent to slightly more than 20 percent of the district's teachers for the next school year.

With a weekend fire in Warwick killing 5 people, including an infant, the investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the blaze.

A federal grand jury in Providence has charged Nathan G. Pope and Jan M. Wales, both of Indianapolis with transporting an individual across state lines to engage in prostitution, in violation of the Mann Act.

Admissions director Jim Miller tells The Providence Journal that only about 9 percent of those 30,000 applicants will get accepted PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ Getting into Brown University is tougher.

Located in the Renaissance Hotel in Providence Rhode Island Temple Downtown is a haven of sophisticated dining.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A judge is hearing arguments this week on whether the federal government should remain part of a lawsuit alleging abuse and neglect of a Chinese immigrant who died in the custody of a Rhode Island detention center two years ago.

Michael Brooks, 18, who was one of four young people accused of spitting on and roughing up a family of four at Providence Place mall, has been convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to serve 30 days at the state prison.

Tomasz Adamek beat Jason Estrada by unanimous decision in a heavyweight fight in his return to the Prudential Center on Saturday night.

Four people in their 20s and a seven-month-old girl were killed in a fire that might have burned unnoticed for some time Saturday until a falling portion of ceiling on the first floor woke a man there in the two-story house at 343 Buttonwoods Ave.

William Lisano and six other people desperately needed answers Saturday. "State motto?" Lisano asked a man who works for the Providence Downtown Improvement District in Kennedy Plaza.

Fire crews are investigating a fire at a North Providence mill complex. The call came in around 10:15 a.m., Saturday morning for heavy fire showing from a chimney at the Geneva Mills on Douglas Ave.

Life is not a game of Monopoly. When the bank makes an error in your favor, you can't keep the money.

Share + Feb 5, 2010 9:00 pm US/Central PROVIDENCE, R.I. Hair gel and hair extensions, tanning and True Religion jeans, Ed Hardy T-shirts and eyebrow threading.

Big Nazo's troupe of giant monkey goblins, intergalactic star slugs and a truckload of trolls are bound for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The Liberty Elm Diner , a vintage 1947 diner in Elmwood that the state preservation society says represents the city's role in creating the modern American diner, was placed in the National Register for Historic Places for its contributions to the history of commerce and architecture.

A Rhode Island man who said he couldn't afford to pay for his dog's surgery decided to take matters into his own hands -- by performing the surgery himself.

The lawyer for Club Element s dropped a bomb on the licensing board on Friday afternoon when he announced that the embattled ownership is in the process of selling the downtown dance club that has been linked to repeated acts of violence.