PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A substitute teacher is accused of abusing his 11-year-old son and trying to get the boy to lie about how he was injured.
Todd Amico, 42, of 725 Admiral St., turned himself in on Thursday for a charge of second-degree child abuse. A District Court judge ordered Amico [...]
COVENTRY, R.I. -- For the second time in eight years, a former Coventry Middle School teacher is accused of sending child pornography and trying to solicit a minor.
Edward J. Sadowski Jr., 67, is expected to be arraigned Monday in District Court, Providence, on charges of possessing child pornography, and being [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A young North Providence man is being held without bail for the murder of a high-school boy, who was shot outside a birthday party early Sunday morning.
Journal photo/John Friedah
Joel Sanchez is arraigned Friday for the murder of John Carlos [...]
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- Newport police have arrested a Portsmouth man who they say sawed off ornamental vases from headstones in Middletown cemeteries and sold the metal for scrap.
Joseph Coite, 43, of 48 Sherwood Drive, was arrested Thursday afternoon by Newport police, who had stopped a car he was riding in [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Just before dawn on May 12, a tall, wild-haired man walked into a 24-hour CVS on Newport Avenue, leapt over the counter and ordered the pharmacist out of his way as he grabbed several bottles of hydrocodone.
Fast-forward to late Tuesday morning.
This same pharmacist was on [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two families escaped safely after a fire swept through their apartment house in Mount Pleasant early Friday morning.
Firefighters battled the fire at 13 Pomona Ave. even as the bitter cold at 1 a.m. sent them slipping and sliding on the ice forming from water spraying from [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two city men were arrested Wednesday night in the shooting and wounding of a teenager in Upper South Providence earlier this week.
Carron Smith, 23, of Salmon Street, and Johnathan Thomas, 18, of 337 Point St., were caught, one after another, by detectives Thomas Zincone and Louis Gianfrancesco, [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Eugene Briggs and his cousin were watching a replay of a Oakland Raiders-Dallas Cowboys game Wednesday night when Briggs decided to go out on the porch for a smoke during a commercial.
Moments later, his cousin Maurice Cooper heard Briggs say, "You've got to be kidding me!" And' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The 16-year-old boy who was shot after a fight outside a birthday party in Elmwood died Wednesday morning.
John Carlos Tavarez was shot by a man who'd just shot and wounded his older brother, said Capt. James Desmarais. Tavarez is the 21st homicide victim in the' [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- A member of the Rhode Island National Guard is being held without bail on Thursday on charges that he and another man stormed into a house in East Greenwich intending to rob a fellow Guardsman.
WARWICK, R.I. -- The skeleton discovered Wednesday by construction workers digging in the basement of a house in Lakewood may be that of a Native American, Paul Robinson, an archaeologist with the state Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, said on Thursday.
The 1895 house at 84 Tyler St. was constructed [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A mother and her daughter were rescued from a fire that consumed their Mount Hope home and injured four firefighters early Thursday morning.
As firefighters pulled up to 517 Hope St., they saw the two women reaching out from a smoke-filled second-floor window and screaming for help, while [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- A man was killed early Thursday morning after his car crashed and rolled over onto a highway ramp off Route 146 north.
He was identified as Zachary Maynard, 27, of 159 Obed Ave., North Providence.
State Police Lt. Paul Olszewski said Maynard, driving north on 146, was trying to [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A 17-year-old Providence boy was arrested Tuesday in connection with a robbery and shooting at a house in the Pontiac neighborhood in October.
The boy, who is not identified because he is a juvenile, was the third person arrested after the home invasion at an apartment at [...]
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Two masked men forced their way into a house at 1140 High Hawk Road late Tuesday afternoon and demanded money from a 59-year-old woman living at the house and her son's friend, a private in the Rhode Island National Guard, who stays there.
But the home invasion [...]
Rhode Islanders, it's time to remember your little-used snow-driving skills -- drive slow and cautiously.
The' [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Just six months out of prison for killing a Boston police officer with his gun, Terrell Muhammad ended up back behind bars on Thursday -- charged with stealing a flat screen TV from the V.A. Medical Center in Providence.
Muhammad was up on a ladder hanging Christmas lights [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An 18-year-old Boston man injured in a downtown Providence shooting in which his older brother and a friend were killed early Sunday morning is expected to recover, police said Tuesday morning.
Dwaynne Thomas, with his older brother, David, 22, an Army soldier home on leave, and a friend, [...]
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- St. Mary Academy Bay View is closed for the day after school officials found a white powdery substance spread through a hallway early Monday morning.
The powder was found to be nontoxic, said Fire Marshal Capt. Oscar M. Elmasian, but its discovery by workers just after 6 [...]
By Phil Marcelo and Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Luis Mendonca, the Pawtucket man who is accusing a Providence police officer of brutality during his arrest two months ago, was found guilty of violating the terms of his probation on previous charges and sentenced to 90 days in [...]
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Eighteen people accused of dealing drugs on the streets throughout the city were swept up in a three-month investigation.
Seventeen adults and one teenage girl were arraigned on Thursday on charges of dealing crack cocaine, and police Capt. James Mendonca said more arrests are pending.
Most of [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A local motorcyclist was injured Thursday night when he tried to negotiate a slight curve on Devils Foot Road and smashed into a Jeep Cherokee in the breakdown lane.
Stuart Huling, 19, was riding west with other bikers just after 9 p.m. when his 1995 Honda missed [...]
NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- A pedestrian who was fatally hit by a minivan Friday morning as she crossed Route 146 north has been identified as Anita Marie Magnifico, 54.
State police Capt. James Swanberg said Magnifico had gotten off a RIPTA bus and started to cross the road when she was [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Where there's smoke, there's ....
Just after midnight, firefighters on Engine 11 were riding back to the station after handling a rescue call when they caught the scent of something burning in the West End, said acting Battalion Chief Jeffrey Varone.
They rode around until they found the source [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- First, she veered to one side of the street and drove a minivan through a chain-link fence.
Then, the woman veered to the other side -- this time backing the minivan straight through another chain-link fence and into a house where two families were sleeping, said acting Battalion [...]
SWANSEA, Mass. -- The guy owed money to Gina M. Andreozzi and she apparently decided it was time he paid up, according to the police.
On Tuesday night, Andreozzi, 21, and her younger brother, Anthony, 19, kidnapped the man at gunpoint from a rap-music studio in Bristol, R.I., and drove [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Narragansett father who burned to death in his pickup truck two weeks ago had caused the fire that killed him, the state fire marshal's office determined on Monday.
Terence W. Ashworth, 37, died in a fire that erupted in his Ford truck at the park-and-ride off [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Three masked gunmen forced their way into a woman's apartment on Central Avenue on Sunday evening and stole valuables and several thousand dollars.
The police believe the home invasion at 239 Central Ave. wasn't random. The men were targeting another resident, who wasn't home at the time, said [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- An Oakland Beach man was arrested Thursday for allegedly dealing marijuana out of his home.
Juan J. Scott, 23, tried to flush a pound of marijuana down the toilet, as detectives with a search warrant came into his rental home at 723 Oakland Beach Ave., said Capt. Sean [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A local 17-year-old boy is accused of robbing the Coastway Community Bank branch at 2089 Warwick Ave. late Thursday morning.
Capt. Sean Collins said the boy had cut school that day and walked into the bank with a note for the teller. The handwritten note, riddled with misspelled [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An off-duty Connecticut police officer ended up in custody on Saturday after he pulled a loaded gun on a man outside a downtown nightclub.
Joshua P. Clark, a Willimantic police officer, had just left the Level II nightclub at around 2 a.m. with several friends when, they told [...]
By Philip Marcelo and Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city approved an entertainment and alcohol license for a Brown University dance on Friday sponsored by a student arts association, after Police Chief Dean M. Esserman backed away from his opposition to the event.
Police Lt. John Ryan, who [...]
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A felon from Massachusetts accused of trying to shoot an undercover detective during a sting -- injuring himself instead -- was ordered held Monday afternoon on $200,000 bail with surety.
The line of stitches from the gunshot wound were visible along the left [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The man who died in a burning pickup at the park-and-ride on Boston Neck Road early Wednesday morning has been identified as Terence W. Ashworth, 37, a member of the Narragansett School Committee.
Meredith Ashworth, his wife of 11 years, talked about his love and kindness [...]
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former director of the Laborers' New England Region Organizing Fund who pleaded guilty to an unlawful payment scheme was sentenced Thursday to three years probation barring him from holding any position within or affiliated with a labor organization.
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former director of the Laborers' New England Region Organizing Fund who pleaded guilty to an unlawful payment scheme was sentenced Thursday to three years probation barring him from holding any position within or affiliated with a labor organization.
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A woman leapt from her second-story window as she and a family with small children escaped a fast-moving fire at a two-family house Wednesday afternoon.
Battalion Fire Chief Frank Wyrostek said he called in nearly all of the city's fire trucks and ambulances when he arrived and [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The body of a man was pulled from a burning Ford truck at the park-and-ride on Boston Neck Road near Route 138 early Wednesday morning.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Coventry man accused of strangling a woman in her apartment on Saturday was out on bail for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl only months ago.
Travis Garcia had just turned 18 in March when he was arrested for backing a teenage acquaintance into the corner of a [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The doorbell rang soon after Robert Helgran arrived home late Monday afternoon -- but he didn't realize until it was too late that his visitors were carrying guns.
As Helgran went to answer the door at his house at 254 Middle St., a man started shoving it' [...]
Two college students from Little Rhody are getting a chance at a "fortune" this week.
On "Wheel of Fortune" tonight, Kevin McMurray, a fourth-year pharmacy student at the University of Rhode Island, is one of the competitors during the game show's College Week.
Then, tune in Wednesday to see Rumford resident [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Coventry man caught driving the car of a Providence woman is charged with killing her.
Travis Garcia, 18, is being charged with the murder of Jeannine Garcia, 32, whose body was found in her bedroom at Cathedral Square Apartments on Sunday, said Providence detective Capt. James Desmarais.
The [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Calling saltwater fishing in Rhode Island "a birthright," Governor Carcieri vetoed legislation that would have imposed a $7 annual license fee for saltwater fishing.
The General Assembly approved legislation last week that would, for the first time in Rhode Island's history, impose a license fee on anyone' [...]
AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- They cut class at Woonsocket High School to break into a house -- but it's the homework that tripped them up.
Two 15-year-old boys skipped out of their parenting class early Monday afternoon and broke into a house a half-mile away from the school, said Lt. Eugene Jalette. [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University announced Wednesday that it is offering eligible non-faculty employees an incentive for early retirement, in its efforts to reduce the university's projected $30-million deficit for the 2010-11 academic year.
The incentive includes a lump-sum payment equal to a year's base pay and an additional $15,000 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An 18-year-old mother was fatally shot Thursday afternoon at her home in the city's Washington Park section.
Daydelliz Cotto was found dead at her bungalow at 353 Montgomery Ave. around 3 p.m., said police Capt. James Desmarais.
A young man, who the police said is the father of Cotto's' [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Small children have been the target of paintball assailants. Now it's RIPTA buses.
Late Saturday afternoon, a [...]
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are investigating two separate incidents where two women at Providence College reported men attempting to abduct them as they walked back to the campus just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday.
The two 18-year-old women had both been at the Club [...]
By Karen Lee Ziner
Journal Staff Writer
BOSTON -- The Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals Thursday that a federal judge erred in dismissing its lawsuit alleging that a state trooper violated the rights of 14 Guatemalan nationals during a traffic stop on Route [...]
