Plainfield

Leo Magalang works as a custodian at Charles Reed Elementary in suburban Plainfield, and last week he got a surprise of a lifetime when he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States.

One person has died after a house fire in Plainfield on Monday morning. Emergency crews were called to a four-family home on Sachem Drive in the Central Village section of Plainfield around 3 a.m. and began evacuating residents and putting out the fire. Once the fire was suppressed, one person was found inside and was pronounced dead. Fire officials said…

Plainfield Police responded to a swatting incident involving a prank call on Monday night where the caller said he had just murdered his mother.

The Rhode Island State Police and Rhode Island Department of Public Safety said Christopher Merchant, 33, of Canterbury, Connecticut was charged with two counts of indecent solicitation of a child, possession of child pornography and three counts of electronically disseminating indecent material to a minor.

A man was arrested Saturday for allegedly using the internet to solicit a minor to engage in sexual activity at a Warwick, Rhode Island hotel.

Police say 15-year-old Celia Barnett was last seen around 2 p.m. Friday at Lebanon High School.

Pauline Chase, 83, and her 63-year-old son, Maurice Temple, have been arrested and charged in a murder for hire plot.

Pauline Chase, 83, and Maurice Temple, 63, both of Plainfield, New Hampshire, were arrested and charged in a murder for hire plot.

More than a dozen horses were killed in a barn fire in a southwest Chicago suburb early Wednesday morning.

A woman who was walking while on her phone didn’t notice an open sidewalk access door in front of her and plunged down the hole on Thursday, officials say.