Police in Rhode Island are looking for Alphonse Capone. No, not the infamous Chicago gangster. Providence police say a 19-year-old city man was robbed Wednesday of a $415 pair of sneakers he was trying to sell to a man who used the name Alphonse Capone on Facebook.

A teenager from Massachusetts was shot and killed outside a Rhode Island nightclub after celebrating her birthday. The family of 19-year-old Berta Pereira-Roldan of Revere is living a nightmare. The Northeastern student and 2019 Revere High School graduate, affectionately known as “Bird,” was shot to death early Sunday morning outside a Providence club.

Police say a 4-year-old girl was accidentally shot in her bed by an upstairs neighbor cleaning his shotgun in Rhode Island. Providence Police say 22-year-old Lisandro Vicario Rodriguez was cleaning the shotgun around early Friday. Online court records do not list an attorney who could comment on Rodriguez’s behalf.

Providence Police say a man who was apparently sleeping in the roadway has died after being run over by a vehicle.

Providence Police say a man who was apparently sleeping in the roadway has died after being run over by a vehicle.

A self-driving shuttle got pulled over by police on its first day carrying passengers on a new Rhode Island route. Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements says an officer pulled over the odd-looking autonomous vehicle because he had never seen one before.

Providence police have launched a homicide investigation after a finding a man shot to death in an SUV.

Police in Rhode Island are investigating the death of a woman who apparently fell from a third-story window. Providence police are still trying to determine whether the woman’s death was an accident or if she was pushed from the window of the Wendell Street home at about 3 a.m. Sunday.

Providence police have identified the victim of the city’s first homicide of 2019. The department on Twitter Saturday afternoon said 41-year-old Gerald Taylor, who was last known to live in Pawtucket, was shot and killed earlier at 1:30 a.m. on Andem Street.

Rhode Island State Police have arrested a lawyer with a suspended license for allegedly threatening a state Supreme Court justice. Police say 36-year-old Nicholas Gelfuso, of Cranston, was arrested Friday and charged with threatening public officials, cyberstalking and cyberharassment.

Providence police say they have seized a semiautomatic rifle from the home of a high school student who made an online threat. Police say they met with the teenager and his guardians Wednesday morning after Alvarez High School administrators alerted them about a video the student had posted the previous night.

A peaceful protest turned ugly outside of a convicted child rapist’s home Saturday night in Providence, Rhode Island, WJAR reported. Richard Gardner, 51, was released from custody on Oct. 11, after serving 30 years for kidnapping and raping young boys in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Since Gardner’s release, which stemmed largely from a clerical error made by prosecutors two years...

Friends of Richard Gardner, a convicted child rapist, attempted to hold a peaceful protest outside his Washington Park home Saturday night. Neighbors responded once they realized what was going on, and then Providence police showed up.

Providence Police have shut down a city bar after shots were fired inside. Police say someone shot into the ceiling of the Art Bar on Chestnut Street at about 2 a.m. on Saturday.

A Providence man suspected of driving while intoxicated has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal crash on Interstate 95.

Rhode Island police are looking for a man they say stole a vehicle with two young children inside it.

A Brown University graduate student has been charged with scamming a Florida woman out of $30,000.

Police in Rhode Island have made a second arrest in connection with a shooting last month at Providence Place Mall.

Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with a shooting at a Rhode Island mall that left one person injured.

Providence, Rhode Island police are searching for whoever shot a young man at the Providence Place Mall Monday afternoon.