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WOONSOCKET — A 26-year-old Woonsocket man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after the January shooting and May death of another Woonsocket man, police have announced.Claude Holland was arrested Saturday afternoon by the North Smithfield police on a warrant obtained Friday by the Woonsocket police, according to a Woonsocket police press release.Holland is accused of shooting Christopher Archambault, 40, on Jan. 13. The police found Archambault [...]

PROVIDENCE -- After climbing this winter and leveling off earlier this month, gasoline prices in Rhode Island are down two cents this week, AAA Northeast says.The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $2.849 at self-service pumps in the Ocean State, according to AAA's weekly survey.A year ago, the price was 15 cents higher at $2.999. Rhode Island drivers are paying two cents more than the national average of $2.829.  In neighboring Massachusetts, [...]

PROVIDENCE — Twin River Worldwide Holdings Inc., owner of Twin River Casino in Lincoln and Tiverton Casino Hotel, will establish its new corporate headquarters in downtown Providence, the company has announced.The company will occupy space on the 10th floor of 100 Westminster St., according to Marc Crisafulli, executive vice president. The company, currently located in Lincoln, expects to complete the move by the middle of June."With a geographic [...]

SCITUATE — The westbound side of Route 6, for a stretch of about 4½ miles between Routes 101 and 102 in Scituate, will be closed for a month beginning Sunday night.In addition, the eastbound side in the same area will be closed Sunday through Thursday nights from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. — the eastbound side of the road will remain open during the daytime.Drivers will follow a detour using Routes 101 and 102 while Route 6 is closed; detour information is available at [...]

PROVIDENCE — A driver who crashed his car into a Douglas Avenue sushi restaurant early Tuesday tried to drive away, but only made it as far as the Foxy Lady strip club, where police officers found him and a passenger covered in blood and staggering away from their SUV, according to police department spokeswoman Lindsay M. Lague.The passenger, Robert Wise, 29, no address available, told the police that he and the driver, Jordan Decosta, 28, no address available, of Cranston, had [...]

PROVIDENCE — Many items in the Rhode Island archives, including the state's copy of the Bill of Rights, are at risk of damage because they're kept in a building that's not meant for preserving rare, historic documents, according to an assessment released Tuesday.There isn't enough space to store or exhibit them properly, and water, light, dust and atmospheric pollution pose a risk to many of the items, according to the report by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. [...]

PORTSMOUTH — New England Boatworks has sold its roughly 28-acre property in Melville along with the rights to more than 360 deep-water berths for $27 million to Safe Harbor Marinas.Quit claim deeds and other paperwork filed earlier this month with the town clerk’s office in Portsmouth, which is available online, confirmed the real estate transaction. The sale came to the attention of The Daily News when it was included in a list of transactions published in this past [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Withdrawals of $35,000-plus from the Santander Bank in Warwick triggered the arrest last Thursday of a Miami man accused in a fake credit-card scheme that is alleged to have netted more than $750,000 from ATMs in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.The Seekonk police last week arrested Dean Emmanuel Colin, 26, of Miami, and charged him with two counts each of larceny over $1,200 under false pretenses and credit card fraud; and one of possession of four or more [...]

NEWPORT — A Superior Court judge has set June 11 as the trial date in the fight for the public release of the full investigation into the circumstances preceding the suicide of 15-year-old Portsmouth High School student Nathan Bruno.On Tuesday, Superior Court William E. Carnes Jr. ordered the defense attorneys for the Portsmouth School Department and School Committee to [...]

FALL RIVER — Respected local businessman, city leader and world traveler Alfredo Alves passed away last weekend at the age of 71.Alves, who served on the City Council for 16 years and founded TA Restaurant on South Main Street, died Sunday at Charlton Memorial Hospital with his family at his side.Former political colleagues and friends reminisced about a man they say had a deep love for the city and its sense of community.Linda Pereira, who served with Alves on [...]