Pawtucket News

Hamsters, tiger sharks, and some species of spiders are all known to eat their young.

A large number of overdose deaths continue to concern health officials, the Pawtucket Red Sox look to stay in Pawtucket and Brown University celebrates an important milestone.

This week's State Report centers on a newly introduced bill that calls for photo identification on EBT cards.

The Pawtucket City Council has approved an agreement under which the Pawtucket Red Sox would remain at McCoy Stadium until 2021, and potentially beyond.

Trinity Repertory Company 's Education Department has announced the winners of their third annual Write Here, Write Now! Student Playwriting Competition.

Reenacting a childhood photo, portraits of fabulous old ladies, and dollhouse meditations on architecture are among the artworks featured in the "2014 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition," at the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Mill Gallery .

Forecast discussion: At the moment, a few snow showers are remaining over northern Rhode Island at the moment.

Sun., March 2 2:14 a.m. Police issued a speeding citation to Berkley woman for speeding on South Main Street.

The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority said Tuesday that it will run express bus service to Pawtucket Red Sox baseball games every Sunday this season.

In February there was actually more snow in Boston there there was on Lake Tahoe, so i flew there to meet The Snowboarder Movie crew.

We've gotten temporary relief from coldtar patches but soon we'll finally see a more permanent solution with asphalt.

A Pawtucket man is under arrest after he attempted to hit a police officer with a vehicle early Saturday morning during a disturbance call in Pawtucket.

Rhode Island State Police are identifying victims of a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in Pawtucket that killed one woman.

"We were approached by the state police. They noticed an increase in occurrences of wrong-way driving on freeways," said Robert Rocchio of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.

A trail of blood led Pawtucket Police to a man who is now accused of trying to kill his wife.

State police said a wrong-way driver shut down Interstate 95 southbound near Lonsdale Avenue in Pawtucket from 3 until 4:50 a.m. Police say two women in a Honda Civic were traveling north on I-95 southbound when they struck a man and a woman in a Chevy Equinox in the left lane.

Rhode Island authorities say a car driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 in Pawtucket crashed head-on into a minivan, leaving two people with life-threatening injuries and two others hurt.

Pawtucket police are looking for a man who bound three people with duct tape and made off with cash during a daytime home invasion.

On Friday, February 28, when the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition holds its opening reception at the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Uretsky - a 2014 merit fellow for three-dimensional art - will have a number of pieces in the show including the large, lumpy, multicolored, beguiling sculpture, "Size 6." On the following ... (more)

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