A suspended Providence police officer appeared Friday in district court, where not guilty pleas were entered to misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges stemming from a State House confrontation with a political rival during an abortion rights rally last month.… MORE
Law enforcement officials in Rhode Island are looking into the conduct of two longtime Providence police officers shown on video smashing a handcuffed man’s face into the pavement over the weekend.… MORE
About a week after starting to vaccinate children under the age of five against coronavirus, about 500 children have received their first shots, Rhode Island officials say.… MORE
Gov. Ned Lamont has signed an executive order creating a new commission that’s charged with planning the state’s multi-year celebration and commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence signing. … MORE
Police from across Rhode Island brought their “BAT Mobile” to the Wickford Town Beach Friday to demonstrate their preparedness to go after impaired drivers over the July Fourth holiday weekend.… MORE
A former Georgetown University tennis coach who once coached former President Barack Obama’s family was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes in exchange for helping wealthy parents cheat their kids’ way into the school.… MORE
Congressman Jim Langevin, who is retiring from Congress after 22 years, is endorsing a Democrat to succeed him, backing Seth Magaziner, who won the party’s endorsement in a convention last weekend.… MORE
Three people involved in a gang-related shootout in a residential neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, last year that left nine people injured have been sent to prison, state Attorney General Peter Neronha said Thursday.… MORE
A Rhode Island man who authorities say made a more than $50,000 profit by trading shares of a Massachusetts semiconductor company based on insider information has been sentenced to a month of home detention and two years of probation.… MORE
A North Kingstown man charged on Wednesday with participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was released on bond and ordered to appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. next week.… MORE
