Providence News

At masses across the country Sunday, Roman Catholic priests blasted the Obama administration's compromise on contraceptive insurance coverage, a sign the White House's backtrack late last week did little to defuse the controversy.... At St.

Providence resident Taylor Polites' just-released novel The Rebel Wife is already garnering lots of attention.

The Providence police are searching for two intruders who entered an unlocked house at 109 De Pasquale Ave.

Congratulations to the latest $336,400,000 Powerball winner! The Rhode Island Lottery sold the Powerball winning numbers of 1, 10, 37, 52, 57, with a Powerball number of 11, for the February 11, 2012 drawing.

When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city's largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions - Brown University - for what he called a failure to sacrifice.

Yellow Peril Gallery invites you to the opening night reception for #OCCUPY, a group exhibition featuring artwork inspired by the OCCUPY movement to launch the 2012 Gallery Night season in Providence, RI, on Thursday, 15 March 2012, from 5PM to 9PM.

With such No. 1 singles as "Fast Cars and Freedom," "My Wish" and "Take Me There," few acts have so fully embodied the sound of 21st-century country music quite like Rascal Flatts.

The Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos is closed while it awaits a loan guarantee so it can start a new mine.

Rhode Island has joined 10 other states in a lawsuit designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution.

A Central Falls man saw a parked State Police cruiser with two troopers inside, a few feet away from where he had just hit a Providence woman with his car.

At its winter meeting the Corporation of Brown University approved a 3.2-percent increase in the operating budget for the 2013 fiscal year.

The first happened just after 1 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Chalkstone and River Avenues.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A woman was rushed to the hospital early Saturday morning after being struck by a car in Providence.

* At 12 p.m., Interrupt II Studio, a gathering of electronic writers, artists and performers, opens in Providence.

The House of Representatives today passed three bills sponsored by Raymond E. Gallison Jr.

An Illinois man was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a larger fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked $2.2 million from Medicare over four years.

A Local road crews are getting ready for an expected three - to five-inch snowfall that the i»¿National Weather Service announced will begin overnighti»¿ and continue into Saturday.

A low-key, long term approach to teen weight loss produced modest benefits in a clinical trial, Australian researchers report, though a version of the program that added texts and emails didn't help kids slim down any further.

A Cranston man was arraigned Friday on a driving under the influence charge for an early morning Jan.

Two students at a federal Job Corps center in Vermont have been charged with aggravated assault in connection with a fight that injured another student.