The Latest Breaking News from Providence

From Montaquila v. Neronha, decided today by the Rhode Island Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Melissa Long: On October 28, 2020, Providence police officers arrested Mr. Montaquila for misdemeanor simple assault after an incident involving his firearm at his place of business…. Eventually the government dismissed the charge…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Another litmus test for Villanova was here in a season that has had plenty of them.

Creighton at Providence preview, prediction, and breakdown for the college basketball game on Tuesday, February 14

Georgetown at Providence preview, prediction, and breakdown for the college basketball game on Wednesday, February 8

So here we thought words like “embarrassing” and “outtoughed” were a thing of the past for the UConn men’s basketball team. The Huskies, after 14 games, were lost in a giddy world of analytics and win probabilities and their nation of followers was preoccupied with the AP poll.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —Providence forward Bryce Hopkins was fouled on a fast break with the Friars leading UConn by nine points in the second half of Wednesday’s game at Amica Mutual Pavilion. As he stood at the free throw line, a packed-house of about 14,000 remained on its feet, where a…

A conservative legal group has filed a civil rights complaint against the Providence, R.I., school system with the U.S. Department of Education over the system's "Educator of Color Loan Forgiveness Program." The program helps pay off teachers' student loans, but only if the teachers "identify as Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latino,…

Pope Francis has named a coadjutor bishop to assist conservative Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin and succeed him when he retires

There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006) in which Captain George Ellerby (Alec Baldwin) is asking Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) about Jimmy Pappas (Paris Karounos), who was arrested for the murder of two gangsters from Providence. Both of them know Pappas, a local Greek restaurateur, ...

Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, seen here in a still from the 1940 film 'The Philadelphia Story,' had a brush with death. 

Stephanie Brown, a nurse specializing in cardiac surgery, became part of a growing workforce in Alaska last year when she took a job far from her Florida home.