Providence Metro News

Using federal money, the Providence Police Department bought protective suits for all officers.

Tornado warnings throughout parts of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts have been allowed to expire.

A Warwick man has been charged with showing pornography and providing alcohol and cigarettes to teens at Camp Yawgoog Boy Scout reservation.

Staff reports This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it PROVIDENCE - Federal agents yesterday arrested Nancy Alexander, of Coventry, on a complaint charging ...

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Rhode Island State Police arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level allegedly was .491 - more than six times the legal limit - which they believe is the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for ...

A 17-year-old boy playing basketball in front of his apartment with his 13-year-old brother at 2 a.m. yesterday morning was shot in the leg after an exchange with people who drove by in a car, according to the ...

The arrests were made Tuesday evening and targeted workers hired by two state contractors, Falcon Maintenance and Tri-State Enterprises.

Dumb-Ass Criminal of the Day -Man posts pics of himself in jailbird costume days before being sentenced for felony DUI Published on July 19th, 2008 PROVIDENCE, R.I. - ' Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged ...

A magistrate judge on the Caribbean island of Tortola ruled Thursday that enough evidence exists to prosecute former Jamestown Town Council member David Swain for murder in the 1999 scuba diving death of his ...

Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird." In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: ...

A 17-year-old West Warwick boy will be prosecuted as an adult for allegedly causing an accident that killed a mother of two.

Police have captured a suspect in the robbery of an East Providence bank earlier this week.

The two companies whose employees were arrested in immigration raids at Rhode Island courthouses this week have at least 45 other janitorial contracts with the state.

Minerals in the soil of Mars show it was covered once by lakes, rivers and other bodies of water that could have supported life, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

A local boy accused of raping a 2-year old toddler was in court Tuesday after a family court judge ruled that he should be tried as an adult.

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A 20-year-old man was shot in the back while sitting with a 15-year-old boy outside a building in the Pleasant Court apartment complex on Doyle Avenue yesterday afternoon.

One man is hospitalized after a shooting took place in the East side of Providence.

For a time, it looked like a memorable year for the prisoners rights lobby. Lawmakers secured more lenient treatment for suspected probation violators and eliminated mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.