Rhode Island

A former Rhode Island basketball coach was acquitted Monday of second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault and convicted of lesser misdemeanor battery charges, according to WJAR. Aaron Thomas, 57, a once popular coach and teacher at North Kingston High School, was on trial for asking hundreds of male student-athletes to take off their underwear so he could check their…

Jurors will deliberate for a second day Wednesday in the child molestation trial of a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach who asked hundreds of male student-athletes to take off their underwear so he could check their body fat.

Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the child molestation trial of a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach who asked hundreds of male student-athletes to take off their underwear so he could check their body fat. Defense attorneys contend Aaron Thomas conducted the tests because he was focused on developing a successful athletics program, downplaying the credibility of students who…

Aaron Thomas, 57, who coached at North Kingstown High School from the 1990s until he resigned in 2021, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault.

A shooting on Monday afternoon in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, left a person dead and another wounded, according to NBC affiliate WJAR.

A man was arrested over the weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, after allegedly shooting his brother, according NBC affiliate WJAR.

A fire that destroyed a gun club in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, early Tuesday was accidental, NBC affiliate WJAR reports.

Providence College sophomore Neve Palmeri says her cousin had a terrifying vacation experience in Aruba. It was that situation that led her to create a solution.

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A major fire tore through a gun club early Tuesday morning in North Smithfield, Rhode Island.

A police officer in Johnston, Rhode Island, shot a man who drove a car at him at a gas station late Saturday night.

Rhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggerio has died at age 76.

Director M. Night Shyamalan will be shooting a movie in Rhode Island this summer.

A wrong-way driver caused a 2-vehicle crash on Interstate 295 in Lincoln, Rhode Island, early Tuesday morning. State police said they responded to a report of a crash on I-295 north in Lincoln around 4:45 a.m. Their investigation determined that a vehicle traveling south in the northbound lanes collided with another vehicle in the area of the weigh station on…

A federal judge will temporarily block President Donald Trump’s administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support COVID-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country.

Police in Rhode Island were seen searching the Warwick home of a woman who went missing last year and whose body was recently found, according to WJAR. Rhode Island State Police as well as Warwick officers were searching the home where Michele Romano lived when she went missing, according to the NBC affiliate. The 56-year-old was reported missing in August…

Rhode Island has secured more than $220 million from the federal government to rebuild the Washington Bridge, according to Gov. Dan McKee, who made the announcement Thursday.

A woman from Cranston, Rhode Island, who’d been missing for days was found alive in a parked vehicle Sunday, amid a criminal investigation involving the FBI.

The disappearance of a woman who has autism and is nonverbal from Cranston, Rhode Island, has become the subject of a criminal investigation

A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges tied to accusations he enticed a 12-year-old girl into sex and then tried to hire someone to murder her so she couldn’t tell anybody, the Department of Justice said Thursday.