Providence County News

The Rhode Island Senate voted 36-2 yesterday on a bill to criminalize indoor prostitution in the state, reports the Providence Journal .

A statewide grand jury on Wednesday indicted Gerrit Musterd, also known as Jose Manuel Almeida Rodriguez, on charges of murder, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, conspiracy to commit murder and carrying a pistol without a license.

A Superior Court judge has upheld the firing of a Smithfield social studies teacher for stapling a student's scalp during a classroom stunt three years ago.

Five criminal-justice officials from the Eastern European Republic of Moldova are touring institutions of civil society in Rhode Island, hosted by District 7950 of the Rotary Club International in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

The Providence Teachers Union says the school district should be held in contempt of court, claiming that it violated a court order involving class size.

Providence Mayor David Cicilline said Friday during a taping of "10 News Conference" that he wants to create metropolitan police, fire and public works districts.

The former clerk and treasurer of the board that manages Burrillville's endowment has been indicted on a charge of embezzling, the police said Wednesday.

The committee's suit filed earlier in the week alleges that Charles Rocha Jr. misused school property for personal gain EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ The East Providence School Committee has sued the man who ran the city's vocational school for seven years.

The School Committee has filed a civil lawsuit against the man who ran the city's vocational school for seven years, alleging he took school computers and cameras home, forged signatures on checks, left the premises during school hours several times a week and arranged for friends to get their cars fixed at the school for free.

Nicholas and Jennifer Gianquitti bought the raised ranch on a sleepy cul-de-sac in Cranston four years ago.

An elderly man from Providence County is the third swine flu death in Rhode Island.

An elderly man from Providence County is the third swine flu death in Rhode Island.

An elderly man from Providence County is the third swine flu death in Rhode Island.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Spokeswoman Annemarie Beardsworth said the patient, who died on Tuesday, was an elderly resident of Providence County.

David "Johnny" Tineo, charged with murdering his girlfriend, Ingrid Gonzalez, in Providence last month, bludgeoned her to death with a baseball bat, a state prosecutor said Monday morning.

A Providence man has been convicted of charges for killing another man in February and taking his ex-girlfriend hostage.

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch is seeking a divorce from his estranged wife as he prepares to run for governor next year.

A Providence County grand jury has handed up an indictment that charges Somesack "Sunny" Phonepraseuth, 17, with shooting to death Jeffrey Lopez on June 30, 2008 in retaliation for a minor incident of jostling on a sidewalk in the Smith Hill neighborhood.

Major city building projects next year will have to meet higher standards for diesel pollution, following passage of a new ordinance by the City Council on Thursday.

Almost seven years ago, a friend watched as Providence College sophomore John D. Langley slipped down a slick dormitory roof to his death on the pavement four stories below.