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PROVIDENCE — A snowstorm Saturday should taper off by 1 p.m. after dumping three to five inches on Rhode Island, according to the National Weather Service forecast Saturday morning.But, if you need to get stuff done, you'd better get right to it, because a storm with the potential to blanket the area with twice as much snow is expected to follow on Sunday [...]

So far, 14 Rhode Islanders convicted under stiff mandatory-sentencing laws have gained early release under the newly enacted federal law called the First Step Act, the result of a bipartisan effort to reduce unnecessary incarceration and remedy racial disparities in cocaine sentencing.

PROVIDENCE — City officials announced the capitals' parking ban ended at 3 p.m. SaturdayIn addition, the Mayor's Center for City Services will be open until 8 p.m. Saturday.

PAWTUCKET — A suspect in the Saturday-morning shooting of two people on Prospect Street is being questioned by the police, according to a news release.Officers responded to reports of a shooting around 8 a.m. at 560 Prospect St. Upon arriving at Apartment 365, they found two victims, a 29-year-old man and 30-year old woman, with non-life threatening injuries, police said.Police said the suspect, whom they declined to identify, was found at the scene and "brought in for [...]

PAWTUCKET — A man wanted in the July 2013 murder of Jeffrey Lebrun was arrested Friday in Pawtucket, according to a police news release.Juan A. Gibson, 47, of Providence, was arrested at his job Friday afternoon by Pawtucket Police Detectives and U.S. Marshals following a Providence grand jury indictment earlier that morning on charges of breaking and entering, stemming from a May 2013 home invasion, as well as the July slaying, police said.Police said that Gibson was [...]

WARWICK — The city is trying to close a $7.4-million deficit in the fiscal year that ends June 30, but its finances are being undermined by a structural deficit that could produce a shortfall of almost $19 million in the budget year that begins July 1, according to Mayor Joseph J. Solomon.

A Warwick department purchased services from Cox Communications and other entities in 2017 and 2018 without approval from the City Council, officials say, faulting the administration of former Mayor Scott Avedisian for lack of oversight.

A 1936 Ford Cabriolet and a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, built in Middletown, will be competing in the grueling, 36-day vintage car race, which starts in China on June 2 and heads to Paris, following in the wheeltracks of the original event in 1907.

The Roman Catholic bishop of Providence, the Rhode Island Right to Life Committee and the chairman of the state GOP mounted a strenuous campaign on Saturday to head off a vote Tuesday on the latest version of a bill to keep abortion legal in the state, no matter what a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court might do to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

PROVIDENCE — Sunday should be sunny and pleasant in Rhode Island during the day, but a storm will roll in late in the evening, bringing an expected 8 inches of snow across most of the state, according to the National Weather Service forecast.The storm will begin between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. with rain or a mix of rain and snow before switching over to all snow during [...]