Journal photo / Ruben W. Perez
Friends and family gather at the memorial site set up for John Carlos Tavarez, the 16-year-old boy who was shot after a fight outside a birthday party in Elmwood and died Wednesday morning. There is now an informal memorial [...]
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' [...]
Get ready for a sloppy morning commute.
A storm will produce heavy snow for a few hours between 5 and 7 a.m. Wednesday, turning to rain between 7 and 9, according to an advisory from the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency.
Communications Director Steve Kass wrote that the combination will create "slick" [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Expect a sunny day Tuesday, but snow and rain are expected to move into the region early Wednesday morning.
The high temperature Tuesday should ready 39 degrees with a northwest wind of 5 to 8 mph, according to the National Weather [...]
By Mark Reynolds
Journal staff writer
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor Charles M. Lombardi surprised the local firefighters union Wednesday morning by shutting down the Douglas Avenue Fire Station in Geneva 24 hours sooner than fire fighters had expected.
By mid-afternoon, the union was in Superior Court seeking an injunction to [...]
House Speaker William J. Murphy fielded tough questions Wednesday morning from small business leaders demanding to know how the state plans to recruit new companies, what it is doing to promote government efficiencies and whether lawmakers intend to pass "a legitimately balanced budget within the next five years."
Serving as the [...]
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Clouds will eventually cover Wednesday morning's bright blue skies, and the morning's calm weather will give way to rain and strong winds Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Expect increasing clouds and a high near 57 degrees Wednesday, according to the National [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri met privately Wednesday morning with the mayors of Rhode Island's four major cities to talk about the state's worsening financial condition.
Rhode Island is facing a projected $219-million budget deficit for this year; the gap is expected to widen next year to $400 million.
The mayors of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Southern New Englanders are waking up to a drizzly morning and that's likely to continue for much of Wednesday, the big Thanksgiving travel day.
The National Weather Service forecasts patchy fog before Wednesday morning and a chance of drizzle before 1 p.m.
Otherwise, expect a cloudy day [...]
North Providence firefighters say a fire that started in the basement of this house at 42 Brookside Drive, off of Mineral Spring Avenue, Wednesday morning is under control. According to a battalion chief at the scene, one firefighter suffered an injury to his hand from a [...]
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 [...]
