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Strobert pleads guilty
The Central Falls youth accused of shooting and killing a Pawtucket teen in one of two shootings that claimed the lives of local teens in a single weekend earlier this year has plead guilty to the murder, and ...
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Panel offers plan to improve urban school districts
Expand the school day. Offer preschool to all students. Allow students to earn a high school diploma by taking night classes or enrolling online.
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When good will goes bad, handcuffs sometimes follow
Two adults were arrested Wednesday night after an apparent beef with a stuck motorist who they had pulled over to help.
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2008 Philanthropy Day honorees include UCAP, BofA and LGC&D
Three organizations and two individuals received top honors from the Rhode Island Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals during the group's annual celebration of National Philanthropy Day.
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Fundraiser to benefit woman winning cancer battle
By JON BAKER PAWTUCKET -- Less than 30 months ago, Christine Drake spent her "mellow moments" pondering how well life was treating her.
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Mister Sister picks up where Miko left off
When Miko Exoticwear on Wickenden Street closed its doors for good this summer, Providence lost a local landmark.
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City man faces gun charges in Lincoln
Police quelled what could have been a "tragic situation" - according to Chief Brian Sullivan - when they arrested Daniel Carrero, 19, of 63 John St., Pawtucket, early Sunday morning on a felony charge of ...
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Pawtucket honors veterans
Those who were at Bataan and the Ardennes decades ago stood proudly alongside some who had just returned from Iraq.
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On the Block
Live music this weekend Open Mic Night at Club Soda starts Friday, November 7, at 10 p.m. The Block Island Allstars will play Saturday, November 8 at 10 p.m. at Club Soda.
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Grand jury hands up 5 indictments
A Providence County grand jury last week handed up these indictments in five unrelated cases: Kojo Osei-Adjei, 38, of 515 Cranston St., Providence, was indicted on seven counts of first-degree sexual assault ...
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R.I. a subway for sewagea completed
It has been called 'Rhode Island's Big Dig' - a $359 million, 3-mile-long underground tunnel buried more than 250 feet below downtown Providence, the largest infrastructure project in the state's history.
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Alleged armed robbery co-conspirator arrested
The already tiny Republican presence in the General Assembly was crushed even smaller by a Barack Obama-led Democratic romp in the Ocean State Tuesday, diminishing the Grand Old Party by more than half in the ...
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Bristol volunteer fireman Wayne Brown dies responding to car fire
Bristol resident and volunteer fireman Wayne Brown died early this morning in the line of duty.
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Bristol fire veteran dies responding to call
A Bristol volunteer firefighter died at home early yesterday as he was preparing to respond to an automobile accident on Wilson Street.
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'Scared Straight' comes to C.F.
As of last night, teens picked up for violating the city's curfew are being brought by police to the Wyatt Detention Center.
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RI city starts detaining kids who break curfew
In April, the Rhode Island city of Central Falls, just a square mile in size, lost two teenagers in two days to gunfire.
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Central Falls starts detaining curfew violators
A scary fate awaits trick-or-treaters who stay out too late in Central Falls. Teenagers who violate a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew will now be held at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility until their parents pick ...
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Vincenzi named Lincoln deputy chief
Amy Vincenzi has known her husband of 18 months for 12 years now, so nothing he does surprises her.
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Cops: Assault on three generations
A local woman was arrested Sunday night after allegedly assaulting a six-month-old girl, her mother and her grandmother, police said.
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Elaborate shoplifting scheme uncovered, say police
Police have caught two men believed to have conspired in an elaborate shoplifting plot executed in an unknown number of stores in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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