More officers are needed for labor-intensive policing initiatives such as foot patrols, which business leaders on Atwells Avenue have credited with helping tamp down issues after dark.

PROVIDENCE — In the weeks since Troy Pine was fatally stabbed inside a Federal Hill hookah bar this month, some have used his death as an example of criminal justice reform gone wrong.The man police say is responsible, a violent gang leader named Joel Francisco, had been released from prison just a few months earlier […]

CRANSTON — Union leaders Thursday urged the Raimondo administration to reject a request from the owners of The Providence Journal to exempt the daily newspaper industry from state laws requiring overtime pay for Sunday and holiday work.Like most other Rhode Island workers, newspaper employees — from reporters to press operators — receive time-and-a-half for working […]

PROVIDENCE — Two armed men wearing masks and gloves invaded a Federal Hill apartment occupied by two other men late Friday morning, police said. Two shots were fired inside the first-floor apartment at 64 Tell St. but no one was injured, said Police Chief Hugh Clements at the scene. The two intruders fled shortly after the […]

PROVIDENCE — Jeffrey Britt, the storied political operative who has pulled unseen strings in Rhode Island political campaigns for more than a decade, was indicted on a money-laundering charge on Friday, in connection with his work on House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello's 2016 reelection campaign.The indictment handed up by a statewide grand jury on Friday morning […]