Cranston Police

Three people have been arrested after an incident police said involved an officer being pushed, surrounded, and run over while responding to dozens of recklessly driven motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. About 30 motorcycles and ATVs were speeding and weaving in and out of traffic Friday afternoon before one of the drivers dropped her motorcycle in the middle of the road…

A man has died after losing control of his speeding car, swerving and hitting an SUV in Rhode Island Saturday night, police said. Four other people were hurt in the crash in Cranston about 8:19 p.m., local police said Sunday. One remained in critical condition. The crash involved a 1991 Nissan 300Z car, occupied by two men, and a 2020…

A Rhode Island man found floating in a backyard swimming pool late Saturday afternoon was pronounced dead soon after, according to authorities. Cranston police and fire officials responded to the home on Linden Road around 5:30 p.m. for a suspected drowning, where they found the man face down in the pool. Responders quickly jumped in the pool, removing the man…

Police say one person has been shot at a Providence nightclub and two suspects have been apprehended in nearby Cranston. The 23-year-old victim was shot in the back near the entrance of Club Flow at about 12:30 a.m. Monday. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

A convicted child rapist whose residency in Rhode Island has caused controversy has reportedly been arrested. Law enforcement sources told WJAR that Richard Gardner will be charged with two misdemeanors after he allegedly putting a Massachusetts address on his marriage license when he was actually living in Providence, which is reportedly a probation violation.

Residents in Providence, Rhode Island converged Wednesday night outside the home of Richard Gardner, a convicted child rapist who was recently released from jail.

A former New England Patriots player’s beloved dog has been found dead. Knox, a 5-year-old English bulldog owned by former Pats linebacker Jerod Mayo, was found Sunday in the home of the dog’s former trainer, according to the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mayo told WJAR last month that he had hired a trainer through...

Two police officers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were reportedly injured when a Cranston, Rhode Island police sergeant’s gun accidentally misfired following the funeral for slain Weymouth Sgt. Michael Chesna. WJAR reports the officer was changing out of his uniform on a parked bus in a staging area for police in Braintree following Chesna’s funeral.

Neither officer was seriously hurt and both refused treatment

A former member of the New England Patriots is seeking closure after his beloved dog went missing nearly two months ago.

A manhunt in Rhode Island ended in a highway shootout between a driver and police in which over 40 shots were fired.

Authorities say no weapons were found in a white pickup truck involved in a deadly police shooting on Interstate 95 in Rhode Island.

Police in Massachusetts are searching for a suspect they say stole a vehicle from a dealership and used it in an armed home invasion and armed robbery in Rhode Island.

Police in Rhode Island say a Providence man was killed when two SUVs collided head-on.

Police are asking for the public’s help to find 29-year-old Krystal Boswell, who went missing Saturday in Fall River, Massachusetts.

A science teacher at Cranston West High School has been accused of inappropriately touching four female students.