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Authorities filed charges Monday against four people they allege initiated a shootout in Rhode Island that left nine people injured last week. Ricardo Cosme Tejada, 20, Jordanny Britto, 20, Reynaldo Rivera, 19, and George Rios, 18, each face several charges including assault with a deadly weapon and using a firearm while committing a crime of violence, according to the state…

Nine people were injured Thursday in Providence, Rhode Island, in what police believe to be the largest shooting in city history. Multiple guns were used in a shootout in which some 50 shots were fired just before 7 p.m. Thursday involving an “ongoing feud” between two groups known to authorities, according to Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements. A…

Nine people are injured after a mass shooting in Providence, Rhode Island.

Nine people were wounded Thursday in Rhode Island’s capital in what police believe to be the largest shooting in city history.

Nine people were wounded Thursday evening in Rhode Island’s capital in what police there believe to be the largest shooting in city history. Of the nine, three had serious injuries and were “maybe critical,” Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements told reporters at the scene. He said multiple guns were used and it involved an “ongoing feud” between...

A shooting police believe to be the largest in the history of Providence, Rhode Island, left nine people injured Thursday.

Officials say a fire on an MBTA commuter rail locomotive Wednesday morning was contained to a small engine and extinguished on its own at Providence Station. There were no injuries to passengers or train crew members, according to a spokesman for Keolis, which runs the T’s commuter rail network. The local fire department was called in response the 5:45...

Authorities in Massachusetts say they have figured out at least one of the people responsible for the disappearance and killing of a professional gambler nearly 30 years ago. Howard Ferrini, 53, was last seen by his friends at the Raynham dog track in August 1991. He left the track to go to his home in Berkley intending to return, Bristol…

The former chairman of a Massachusetts tribe is seeking to dismiss some of the federal bribery and extortion charges he’s facing over the tribe’s long planned casino project. Cedric Cromwell, former chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoags, filed a motion last week to dismiss three bribery counts. Cromwell also said in the filing that he reserves the right to file a separate...

A Providence police officer will be suspended for two days after closely following a moped rider who crashed and went into a coma, officials said Friday. Officer Kyle Endres, a six-year member of the force, is being suspended because he did not drive his cruiser safely and he did not wear a seat belt, Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare said…

Prosecutors in Rhode Island will not file criminal charges against a Providence police officer involved in a moped crash last year that left a 24-year-old man in a coma and sparked two nights of protests that occasionally turned violent in the state capital.

A Rhode Island Superior Court judge has vacated the murder conviction of a man after finding that his trial attorney violated his rights by discouraging him from testifying that he stabbed a man in self-defense. The Providence Journal reported Monday that in her decision overturning the second-degree murder conviction of Miguel Tebalan Rivera, Judge Netti C. Vogel also found that…

A 2-year-old Rhode Island girl seriously injured in a fire at her home earlier this month that took the life of her older sister has died, police said Wednesday. The younger girl, Allison Sandoval, died Saturday, Providence police said in an emailed statement. Her sister, Ashley Sandoval, 7, died at Hasbro Children’s Hospital shortly after the Dec. 22 blaze at…

A 7-year-old girl died in a house fire in Providence, Rhode Island, Tuesday, while her 2-year-old sister was in the hospital in critical condition, police told NBC affiliate WJAR-TV. Firefighters pulled the girls from a home, and they were rushed to Hasbro Children’s Hospital Providence Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare told the station. Other people in the home were...

A man charged with shooting a police officer in the thigh in July 2018 is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity and requesting an in-person bench trial, his lawyer said Monday. Tyler Chandler, 25, joined the hearing by video conference from a state acute care facility and pleaded not guilty to weapons and assault charges, The Providence Journal reported….

A Rhode Island judge on Friday rejected a request from the Providence Teachers Union to suspend in-person instruction at a city middle school over concerns about COVID-19. Superior Court Judge Melissa Darigan denied the union’s motion for a temporary restraining order and found no violation of law or state health protocol. The union sued this month in an attempt...

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…

Providence police released five new body camera videos on Monday from officers who responded to a scooter crash last week that left a 24-year-old man critically injured. Jhamal Gonsalves was injured Oct. 18 as police responded to reports of hundreds of dirt bikes, ATVs and other street-illegal vehicles roaring around the streets of Providence. Family members said Gonsalves remains in…

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, have released body cam footage in a crash last weekend involving a cruiser and a moped that left the driver critically injured.

The class size for elementary school students in Providence’s virtual learning program is being reduced from 52 students per teacher to 36.