Coventry

A fire broke out Thursday night at a rehabilitation facility in Coventry, Rhode Island, sending 24 people to the hospital, NBC affiliate WJAR reported. The fire at the Respiratory and Rehabilitation Center of Rhode Island was reported shortly before 9 p.m., according to WJAR. Most of the people who were hospitalized were being treated for smoke inhalation, WJAR reported. As…

The idea of using waste to produce hydrogen is not unique to Australia.

Factory would be built in a part of England known for its longstanding connection to vehicle manufacturing.

The facility will launch later this year, with several major organizations involved in the project.

Rhode Island says it will launch a second round of aerial mosquito sprays in response to the increased risk of eastern equine encephalitis. The state health and environmental management departments made the announcement Thursday to begin spraying two targeted areas on Sept. 23. The decision comes after state officials confirmed on Tuesday at least three human cases of the mosquito-borne...

Health authorities in Maine say they have confirmed the presence of a potentially deadly virus in mosquitoes in the southern part of the state. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday mosquitoes in York County tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis. A state laboratory found the virus in a single mosquito pool collected Sept. 6 in the...

Two more people have the potentially deadly eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, virus in Rhode Island, state officials said Tuesday. One is a child. There are now three human cases of EEE this year, amid an outbreak that has spanned New England. Two people have died — one in Rhode Island, one in Massachusetts — among 12 human cases reported...

Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling near the Rhode Island state line. They say the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn Airport in Coventry, Rhode Island, and had been turning back toward the airfield when it...

NASCAR champion Michael Stefanik was the pilot killed in a plane crash in Sterling on Sunday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.

A tornado touched down in northeast Connecticut Wednesday when severe thunderstorms rolled through the area, the National Weather Service confirmed after an investigation. The EF-1 twister struck in Tolland County around 5:45 p.m., with winds as fast as 85-90 mph, the NWS said Thursday.

A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict. The sculpture is a replica of a colossal 3,000-year-old statue from the Temple of Ishtar in Nimrud, in what’s now Iraq. The stone statue was one of many artifacts from the Mosul Museum destroyed...

More clouds than sun to end the weekend with showers arriving this evening, especially along the South Coast. With that said, most of our daylight hours will be rain-free, so it’s another great day for outdoor activities. High temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s north while 60s to almost 70 over inland towns in southern New England. Cooler...

The band plans to take the stage without fashion designer Victoria Beckham, who performed as “Posh Spice” during the group’s 1990s pop heyday.

Police are investigating how a severely malnourished dog that later had to be euthanized ended up wandering the streets of Coventry. Police say neighbors reported seeing the dog at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday.

Oh my gourd! A Rhode Island man has won the prize for the heaviest pumpkin at the Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts with a fair record 2,114-pound gourd.

The pastor of a Massachusetts church is speaking out for the first time after coming face to face with a gunman that police say later opened fire on two of their officers.

A Rhode Island man is recovering from surgery after he was shot by Massachusetts officers who say he suddenly opened fire at them as they responded to a report of a man with a possible gun at a church. Forty-one-year-old Eric Lindsey faces multiple charges following Monday’s incident, including two counts of firearm-armed assault to murder, fourt counts of attempted...

Three people were reportedly injured when a 13-year-old boy drove an ambulance into a ditch Thursday night in Coventry, Rhode Island. The boy was reportedly having trouble walking down Route 117 in Coventry with his mother. According to WJAR in Providence, officers received a call that the boy was having trouble walking and brought him to a local fire station...

When authorities in Thailand were assembling a group of rescuers to search for a soccer team lost in a flooded cave, one of their first calls went to a retired firefighter and an IT consultant in England. Rick Stanton and John Volanthen were the first to reach the 12 boys and their coach inside the Luang Nang Non Cave in...

Rescue workers have found a group of missing boys and their soccer coach inside a flooded cave in Thailand.