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The Providence area was slammed by torrential rains and flash flooding Monday. Later Monday night, the West River is out of its banks, and multiple cars can be seen stuck on flooded roadways.

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Significant flash flooding is ongoing in Cranston and Providence Monday evening.

Soaking rain has been unfolding Monday in much of southern New England, resulting in several flash flood warnings in Rhode Island, including Bristol, Kent and Providence counties. NECN and NBC10 Boston remain in a First Alert through Tuesday due to the impact on travel and the potential for localized flooding due to runoff into low-lying areas. Click here for active…

A woman from Providence, Rhode Island, said a naked man entered her home and climbed into bed with her on Monday afternoon. Surveillance video captured the naked man opening the front door of Krista Brown’s home on Miller Avenue and walking inside, according to WJAR-TV. She said he then got into her bed and tried to cuddle her. Brown...

Authorities in Rhode Island are investigating after a Providence police detective fired two rounds at a break-in suspect they say was driving at a high speed toward the officer. No one was injured in the shooting that occurred at about 10:30 p.m. Friday, Providence police said in a statement Saturday. It started when police responded to Hope Street for a…

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, are looking for a missing person they believe to be in danger. Elijah Elderkin, 25, was last seen by his roommate around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. Elderkin is believed have left his Hope Street home in his 1997 black Honda Accord bearing Rhode Island registration TA-443. The vehicle has two stickers on the rear,…

Police in Rhode Island are searching for a man who they say stole a car with a 2-month-old baby in the back seat outside a Cumberland Farms in Providence Saturday afternoon. A couple went into the Branch Avenue convenience store around 2 p.m., leaving the baby inside their running car, Maj. David Lapatin told NBC affiliate WJAR. While the couple…

Providence police said they are searching for a man who stole a car with a 2-month-old baby in the back seat Saturday afternoon, according to NBC affiliate WJAR.

About 60 protesters marched peacefully through Providence Friday night calling for justice in the case of a Rhode Island man hospitalized last weekend when the moped he was operating crashed as it was being followed by a police cruiser. This week had already seen some protests that ended with arrests and clashes with police. But the protest on Friday was…

At least 19 people were arrested during protests in Providence Tuesday night over a crash between a cop car and a moped that put a man in critical condition.

Several more people were arrested when protesters demanding justice for a Rhode Island man injured when the moped he was operating crashed as it was being followed by a police cruiser clashed with police for a second night. Several dozen protesters marched through the Providence streets on Wednesday night and threw bottles, smoke bombs and rocks at police near the…

Seven men have been arrested and an eighth man remains on the loose in connection with the brutal sexual assault of a female teenager last year in Providence, Rhode Island. The men, ranging in age from 19 to 25, are charged with raping the 16-year-old after luring her to a house party in South Providence at 1 a.m. on Dec….

A group of protesters stormed the Providence Place Mall, breaking inside around 11 p.m. Monday.

A crowd of hundreds of people that the head of the Rhode Island State Police described as a “mob” smashed storefront windows, broke into a closed mall, and torched a police cruiser in Providence early Tuesday morning. The people who caused the damage were not protesting the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died after a police officer…

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.