Pawtucket News

A deadline to submit proposals for those interested in leasing the Gatekeeper's House aside the Pawtucket Dam has been extended by more than a month, to Jan. 22. The state Department of Conservation and Recreation is looking to lease the property as a way to earn revenue and have someone fix up and maintain the site.

A former Pawtucket police officer who resigned after being charged in a domestic violence case has been charged with raping and trying to strangle another girlfriend.

Warren Tassone, 32, of 180 Rounds Ave., Providence, was charged with second-degree child molestation after an alleged incident at the school on Wednesday.

He is charged with second degree child molestation and sexual assault. He was released on personal recognizance and ordered to not have contact with the victim.

The Rhode Island man who has been charged with motor vehicle homicide after a fatal car accident last week is being held without bail.

Rhode Island is the first state in the nation to have taxfree art sales, and for one art gallery in Pawtucket... it means more than just an increase in business.

Two separate accidents in short succession between exits 29 and 30 on Route 95 north at about 8:20 p.m. Sunday caused no major injuries.

Rhode Island, aiming to build on the success of some of its old industrial towns that have reinvented themselves as artists' enclaves, has become the first U.S. state to stop collecting sales tax on original and limited-edition art sold there.

A crowd of people browse through free coats at the Buy Nothing Day coat exchange outside the Rhode Island Statehouse Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, in Providence, R.I. The state's exchange, where people donate a coat or get one for free, is marking its 17th year and has inspired similar events in Kentucky and Utah.

A Rhode Island man involved in a fatal traffic crash in western Massachusetts is facing drunken driving and vehicular homicide charges.

Shoppers won't be lining up for Thanksgiving Day deals at stores in Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts.

The first successful water-powered cotton mill in America will undergo significant exterior repairs with the help of a large private grant.

Nothing beats a meal from great neighborhood joint. People you know, food you love, what more could you ask for? Here are some of Lil' Rhody's best local haunts for when you need a taste of home.

As I sit writing this column on the first cold and blustery day of the fall season, I listen outside as the whipping wind howls, the crows caw loudly and the day, save the weather, is ironically quiet.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre stages the Rhode Island premiere of The Big Meal, American playwright Dan LeFranc's award-winning play in which generations of a modern-day family whiz by from birth to that inevitable last course.

Mayor Taveras spent the morning reading to preschoolers in Pawtucket. He did it to underscore his race for governor, and to promote his plans for statewidepre kindergarten classes for all kids in Rhode Island.

Shoppers won't be lining up for Thanksgiving Day deals at stores in Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts.

But among those urban students, about 34 percent - or one in three, on average - still are not graduating on time, the report said.

Two 24-year-old women were arrested Sunday after they allegedly crashed into a car and assaulted the driver while racing another vehicle on West Main Road.

Eleven bus routes that travel on Roosevelt Avenue in Pawtucket will be detoured for the Family Turkey Trot on Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m., officials at the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority said Tuesday in a news release.