Providence County News

A Providence County grand jury yesterday handed up indictments against a 72-year-old local man who allegedly set fire to a building that housed his fitness club - and then lied about it to the police.

A North Smithfield man is being held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions on multiple counts of child molestation.

A local man who was arrested after police found a woman stabbed to death in her house in late March has been indicted on charges that he killed his mother, according to information released by the office of Attorney General Patrick Lynch.

The police are asking for help to locate Shayne Eugene McClair in connection with several commercial break-ins in Woonsocket and Bellingham, Mass.

The union representing the state's deputy sheriffs responded Friday that persistent staff shortages, a failure to follow established security practices and the setup of Rhode Island's antiquated courthouses were to blame for a recent mistrial and other alleged courtroom delays.

The Barrington teenager charged in the boating death of his friend on the Barrington River in July 2007 pleaded no contest Monday morning to a reckless boating charge in Providence County Superior Court.

The Rhode Island State Sheriffs Department has traveled a rocky path over the past decade or so.

A Superior Court jury awarded a former truck driver $4 million, concluding that negligence by his orthopedic surgeon caused him mental and physical suffering.

The 38-year-old Scituate man is accused in the April 7 crash that killed Katherine O'Toole, a mother of six from Foster PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ A Rhode Island man has been indicted on drunken driving charges in a car crash that killed a mother of six.

The Providence County Grand Jury handed up an indictment today naming David Hazard on one count of driving while intoxicated, death resulting, one count of reckless driving, death resulting, and one count of refusal to submit to a chemical test for the second time within five years.

Robert P. Ceprano, the fired Providence tax collector who has accused Mayor David N. Cicilline of tax favoritism, has launched another volley at City Hall with a lawsuit alleging conspiracy, corruption, libel and wrongful termination.

May 12, 2009: In the matter of State of Rhode Island v. Ryan Greenberg, the defendant is expected to plead no contest on May 18 to a charge of reckless boating, death resulting, before Superior Court Associate Justice Daniel A. Procaccini.

It's been close to three years since the Cranston police charged Jesse A. Boyd and two of his friends with raping a 17-year-old girl after the group drank cognac and smoked marijuana on a hot July afternoon.

The six have allegedly been involved in criminal rackets including betting, extortion and drug peddling.

Six West Warwick men are facing arraignment, indicted on racketeering charges this week by a state grand jury.

The Providence County Grand Jury has indicted Santiago Pena, 54, of 116 Julian St., in the murder and robbery of Ivon Dufresne, 71, in November in Woonsocket.

A Smithfield man convicted of reckless driving in March was sentenced Thursday to one year probation, one year suspended in a case stemming from an incident involving a Rhode Island state trooper.

A man will continue serving a 55-year state prison sentence for the knifepoint rape of a woman in Lincoln, after the Rhode Island Supreme Court issued an order Wednesday denying his second request to overturn the conviction.

A man who pleaded no contest to raping a woman in Roger Williams Park in Providence last June has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The School Committee on Friday filed a Caruolo action against the mayor and City Council in Superior Court to order a $5.63-million increase in the school budget for the current fiscal year.