PROVIDENCE, RI — Independence Day is fast approaching, so it’s time to find out where you can celebrate in and around Providence. Area events include fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun. To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going … Read more
Elizabeth Turley and Vallery Maravi 7 mins ago CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — On Sunday, June 23, the congregation at Holy Apostles Church celebrated a group of parishioners who had just arrived back in Rhode Island, thanking God for their safe return from a weeklong mission trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Just over a week later, … Read more
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Attorney General Peter Neronha said a Providence man was found guilty for the shooting and injuring of a 42-year-old in 2021. 42-year-old Alex “Bemba” Perez was charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon resulting in serious bodily injury, one count of discharging a firearm resulting in permanent incapacity, … Read more
Editor’s note: This press release was provided by Providence College. The Pelham Examiner publishes press releases in the form received as a service to the community. (Providence, R.I.) – The Providence College (PC) Army ROTC commissioned thirteen cadets as second lieutenants in the United States Army on Friday, May 17 at the College. One of … Read more
Sarah Doiron and Jake Holter 7 mins ago PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island is set to receive a more than $3.8 million federal grant to address the state’s housing crisis. The money was earmarked through the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) program, which aims to identify and remove affordable housing barriers, … Read more
CRANSTON, R.I. — The families of three men who died by suicide at the Adult Correctional Institutions last year are suing the prison’s supervisors and staff, arguing that they were “deliberately indifferent” to their risk of suicide. Cooperating attorneys for the ACLU of Rhode Island filed the lawsuits in US District Court on Wednesday on … Read more
Using the Dunlap version, Solomon Southwick, printer of the Newport Mercury, on July 12, 1776, was paid to make 29 prints to be distributed to town clerks in Rhode Island, according to the State Archives. Only six are known to exist. One copy has remained at its intended destination for nearly 250 years. A Southwick … Read more
CRANSTON, RI — The following people were arrested by Cranston police between June 19 and June 22. Names of those arrested, their age, or the town they reside in, as well as the time of the arrest, were only omitted when not provided by police. Subscribe June 19 2:34 p.m. — Abigail Schuyler, 19, of … Read more
Dezube said the building could cater to a wide range of tenants, from “young professionals all the way up to empty nesters who want to come back to Providence,” he told the Globe in an interview. “The units are going to be large, spacious, with views of the water,” he said. “I do expect them … Read more
PROVIDENCE — Prospect Medical Holdings, the Los Angeles-based corporate owner of two Rhode Island hospitals, said it received a subpoena last year from the Department of Justice, according to new court documents. The Justice Department issued the subpoena on Nov. 3, Prospect’s attorneys wrote in a new legal document filed on June 27, referring to … Read more