JOHNSTON, R.I. -- A flurry of calls came in to the Rhode Island State Police Thursday at 1:59 a.m. -- reporting a driver going the wrong way on Route 295 north in the high-speed lane.
Some callers reported the vehicle was traveling about 20 miles per hour, sort of "hugging" [...]
Three Providence residents were arrested Sunday on felony charges of selling pirated music and movies at two locations on Broad Street after Rhode Island State Police seized at least 1,300 CDs and DVDs.
All three were charged with forgery/counterfeiting and piracy and were released from Lincoln Woods Barracks pending [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Massachusetts man already facing state charges for allegedly trying to buy guns from an undercover Rhode Island state trooper was charged Tuesday with a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
EXETER, R.I. -- An Exeter man has been charged with firing a gun in a compact area and with disorderly conduct after the Rhode Island State Police say he apparently fired a shotgun into the wall of a bedroom after an argument over the telephone with his girlfriend.
Harold Brooks, 33, [...]
The Rhode Island State Police say they will be cracking down on seatbelt and child restraint violations this Thanksgiving holiday as part of a national ``zero tolerance'' enforcement strategy.
It is expected that 377 million people will be traveling on the nation's highways this weekend.
The Rhode Island State Police, along with [...]
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Thirty-six police recruits stood out among 1,923 applicants.
On Friday, those 36 will graduate from the Rhode Island State Police Training Academy.
The new state troopers have worked 22 weeks preparing for their new careers. On June 22, they began their intensive, paramilitary training, according to Lt. [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The state police have charged a Cranston man with possession of child pornography, it was announced on Tuesday.
Michael J. Pappas, age 37, of 1890 Broad St., Apartment 220, was taken into custody on Friday by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The Woonsocket man who died Monday morning after jumping onto Route 95 from a highway overpass had intentionally crashed his car just moments before in an attempt to kill himself and perhaps his girlfriend, the Rhode Island State Police now say.
Journal photo/ Steve Szydlowski
A fatal incident near exit 16 on Route 95 north Monday morning forced the Rhode Island State Police to close a section of the highway and divert traffic onto Route 10.
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A man who leaped to [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former high-ranking Rhode Island state police official has been sworn in as the new U.S. Marshal.
Steven O'Donnell was sworn in Friday at the federal courthouse in downtown Providence.
O'Donnell was recommended by the state's Democratic senators, Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed, and then nominated [...]
On the local front:
Paiva WeedA year ago today:
Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed wins the endorsement of her fellow Democrats to go where no woman has gone before at the Rhode Island State House: to the heights of legislative power as [...]
