Rhode Island, Providence County | featured news

A complaint accuses a Glocester man who owns Bonniedale Farm Rescue of violating animal cruelty laws by failing to adequately provide food, water and shelter to two pigs during a period that exceeded 24 hours when temperatures averaged below 20 degrees, authorities said Wednesday.Daniel MacKenzie was arrested Tuesday and charged with four counts of animal cruelty, according to a news release from the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.A [...]

PROVIDENCE — The Providence Committee on Claims and Pending Suits voted 3-2 on Wednesday not to recommend the approval of a $127,278 separation agreement for Sybil Bailey, the city's former director of human resources, who left the city last month.

CRANSTON — Michael Marrapese, 40, a son of the late Mafia capo Frank "Bobo" Marrapese, was arrested on a murder charge Wednesday after police discovered the body of his ex-girlfriend at the apartment they once shared, a police news release said.

BURRILLVILLE — The driver of a car pinned under a box truck in a four-vehicle crash on Wednesday was flown by helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries, a Burrillville police news release said.The crash happened at about 2:40 p.m., at Broncos Highway [...]

Mayor Joseph J. Solomon is the city’s chief executive, but he’s also a lawyer, an accountant and a car dealer, too.

Rhode Island Senate leaders want to ease the housing crunch by ending slow building inspections, forcing municipalities to replace residential land lost to solar farms and by taking the "granny" out of Rhode Island's "granny-flat" law.

PROVIDENCE — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence on Wednesday acknowledged having received a complaint in 2012 from former Lesley University President Margaret McKenna about a priest who had touched her under her clothing multiple times when she was growing up in Central Falls.McKenna, who also served as a deputy White House counsel in the Carter administration, later told the state police that Bishop Thomas Tobin treated her "as if she were a suspect, rather than a [...]

SCITUATE — State police Supt. James M. Manni has relieved Gregory Scungio from his position as acting director of the 911 call center after learning that Scungio's certification to teach Basic First Aid, CPR and AED had expired three years ago.Scungio, certified by The American Red Cross to teach the three lifesaving techniques, had continued teaching telecommunicators on his staff after his instructor certification expired in February 2016, a news release from the Rhode Island [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — A wayward lamb running around a New York City bridge briefly held up traffic before its rescue.The animal was first seen trotting eastbound along the shoulder of Gowanus Expressway around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. New York City Police Officer Dominick Gatto says he was on-duty when a motorist informed him about the lamb on the lam.Gatto and other police officers chased down and caught the animal, taking it to the Animal Care Center in Staten Island. [...]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke formally announced Thursday that he'll seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of intense speculation over whether he'd try to translate his newfound political celebrity into a White House bid.Until he challenged Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year, O'Rourke was little known outside his hometown of El Paso. But the Spanish-speaking 46-year-old former punk rocker became a sensation during a campaign that [...]