Pawtucket

The victim of a fatal shooting in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, over the weekend was identified Monday as a former college football star. Keshaudas Spence, 29, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was found in the passenger seat of a car suffering from a gunshot wound at about 4:45 a.m. Saturday, Pawtucket police said in a statement. He was taken to the hospital where…

Police in Rhode Island are investigating the shooting of an 18-year-old man by an off-duty Pawtucket officer, West Greenwich Chief Richard Ramsay said. The chain of events started at about 8 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 95 and ended up off the highway outside a West Greenwich pizza shop, Ramsay said. Both men were in separate vehicles. “I believe the officer…

A man was killed in a targeted, drive-by shooting in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, police said. Officers who were called Saturday afternoon for a report of shots fired found a man with several gunshot wounds inside a car. He was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where he later died. Authorities did not identify the victim, but bystanders told The Providence Journal he...

More than a dozen emergency services vehicles descended on a Rhode Island manufacturing company Thursday afternoon over what appeared to be a noxious odor that sickened several people. No one was seriously hurt, Pawtucket’s acting public safety director said. The incident was reported at the address of medical parts and electrode manufacturer Bio-Detek on Narragansett Park Drive. Pawtucket firefighters...

A 19-year-old driver has died after his car crashed into the back of a truck on Interstate 95 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, early Thursday morning, police said. Investigators are still working out what caused the crash, which also left a 19-year-old woman hurt, according to the Massachusetts State Police. The crash was reported about 3 a.m. on the southbound side of…

Pawtucket will close City Hall to the public beginning Monday, part of Rhode Island’s statewide effort to stop a surge in coronavirus cases. Mayor Donald Grebien said that the two-week closure will protect city workers and residents alike, and that much municipal business can be handled online or over the phone. He said the decision to close City Hall...

A Central Falls man charged with fatally shooting another man in Pawtucket on Halloween night has been indicted on murder and other charges, the Rhode Island attorney general’s office announced Tuesday. Jairo Esdel Galva, 21, is charged in the Oct. 31 shooting death of Joel Rosario, 22, also of Central Falls. Galva turned himself in earlier this month after a…

A Boston man charged with being under the influence when he allegedly struck and killed an off-duty nurse who had stopped to help someone at the scene of a car rollover in Rhode Island has been held on $45,000 bail. Luis Baez, 22, appeared in court Monday to face several charges in connection with the crash on Interstate 95 in…

A Massachusetts woman who stopped to help the victim of a crash on Interstate 95 in Rhode Island was killed by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday. Jennifer Toscano, a 34-year-old nurse from Stoughton, was struck and killed while trying to help the victim of a rollover crash near Exit 30 in Pawtucket. The driver who hit her then fled the…

A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and killed on a highway in Pawtucket on Saturday night, Rhode Island State Police said. Officers identified the victim as 57-year-old Ricardo Masariegos, affiliate WJAR-TV reported. Police say they believe Masariegos was homeless. The crash happened on Interstate-95 south near Exit 27 around 9 p.m., according to WJAR. Police said Masariegos was crossing…

A Rhode Island man who calls himself the “world’s greatest counterfeiter” has been granted compassionate release from prison, where he was serving a 15-month sentence for producing fake $100 bills. A federal judge in Providence on Wednesday reduced Louis Colavecchio’s sentence to time served, but said he must remain in custody until an appropriate release plan is in place....

The number of new cases was down from the previous day’s, prompting Gov. Gina Raimondo to express cautious optimism that social distancing efforts were having a positive impact.

Rhode Island health officials on Sunday reported 11 deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the state’s death toll 226. The fatal cases were comprised of a person in their 50s, four in their 70s, a person in their 80s and five in their 90s, officials said. The state also reported 310 new cases, bringing the total to 7,439. The number…

The new coronavirus has claimed another 13 lives in Rhode Island, bringing the state’s death toll from the pandemic to 215, the state Department of Health reported Saturday. There were 430 news cases of the disease, for a total of more than 7,100 positive cases, the agency said.

Gov. Gina Raimondo will address the public on Rhode Island’s response to the coronavirus outbreak Saturday at 1 p.m.

Two Rhode Island mayors are asking that a hospital that closed in 2017 be reopened to help the state deal with the new coronavirus pandemic.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announces the state’s first two deaths in the coronavirus pandemic and announces a sweeping set of new measures aimed at stopping its spread, including a stay-at-home order.

A massive fire ravaged an abandoned mill, destroying multiple buildings in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, early Saturday, March 14.

A sweeping fire ravaged an abandoned mill, destroying multiple buildings in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, overnight Friday. Video posted by a bystander early Saturday showed huge, pulsing balls of flame consuming the vacant buildings. The buildings that caught fire sit at 30 Beecher St. along the border of Pawtucket and Central Falls. The flames broke out around 3 a.m. Saturday morning…