Pawtucket News

The weather might be cold in New England, but there's still plenty to do - even after the major holidays have ended.

A 16-month investigation and a month of court-authorized monitoring of three cellphones have resulted in the arrest of 12 people on a variety of drug trafficking, weapons and conspiracy charges.

Advocates for the poor say a state proposal tightening rules for utility shutoffs could lead to fewer Rhode Islanders eligible for help paying electric and gas bills.

Three men have been charged with federal crimes in an arson-for-profit scheme last month at a multi-family apartment building in the city's Hartford neighborhood.

Ricco is facing assault charges for the second time. The former cop will appear in court for a status conference to address new sexual assault and domestic assault charges filed against him on Thanksgiving Day.

The Pawtucket-based Priority Management Group will provide free meals and winter coats to Rhode Island's less fortunate individuals this weekend as part of its third annual holiday meal event to be held on Saturday, December 14, from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Rhode Island Convention Center .

Dozens of foster parents poured into a storefront in a shopping plaza off North Main Street on Wednesday morning to pick up donated winter coats, knit caps, mittens, flannel pajamas and toys for their needy children.

The American Institute of Architects' Connecticut and Rhode Island Chapters honored Northeast Collaborative Architects with four design awards this year.

Rhode Island Housing says the Urban League of Rhode Island has not paid staff members at a homeless shelter it operates in Pawtucket for months and has failed to address problems in the building, including a heating system that doesn't work.

Police called for a fire inside a business at Dollar Tree on Narragansett Park Drive wound up arresting a man there for assault Dec. 8, when a woman told them he'd hit her.

From a bad mannered dad who gambled away his kids' Christmas present money, to same-sex married couples figuring out the new etiquette, as well as what to wear when you don't have "Cocktail Attire."

The 14-year-old girl who ran away from a Pawtucket group home and ended up prostituted over the Internet and the underage Boston foster girl found dancing in a Providence strip club, working for a pimp -- these are the cases that made headlines recently.

Two men, ages 56 and 55, were taken to the Rhode Island Hospital detoxification unit last Tuesday, Dec. 3, around 5 pm after being found intoxicated on the East Bay Bike Path near County Road.

Police officers were checking on a disturbance Saturday night when they found someone trying to keep a low profile -- a convicted sex offender wanted in Massachusetts Ryan Hathaway, 32, wasn't forthcoming with his real identity when police spoke to him at 451 Broadway, and the officers found out why: he was wanted as a fugitive by the Massachusetts ... (more)

A Pawtucket officer who shot at a stolen SUV last week was in "imminent fear for his life" as it drove directly at him on the sidewalk last week, according to police.

East Providence officials should no longer be out of the loop on the Bristol County Water Authority's plan to build a pipeline through the city to Pawtucket as a second source of water for Barrington, Warren, and Bristol.

Should a 100-year storm hit Rhode Island, the communities at the greatest risk for severe flooding - and most vulnerable to it - are Warwick, Providence, Cranston, and Newport, according to data from the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency.

This sleepy town of 6,000 doesn't have a police department, and the only firearm violence tends to be directed at deer.

Editor's note: The following reports were posted on the RI State Police website this week: Scituate barracks: Traffic stop on Rte.

The city of Pawtucket is taking action against the owner of a Mineral Spring Avenue triple-decker that exploded last month.