THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

Police in Rhode Island are looking for Alphonse Capone. No, not the infamous Chicago gangster. Providence police say a 19-year-old city man was robbed Wednesday of a $415 pair of sneakers he was trying to sell to a man who used the name Alphonse Capone on Facebook.

A former Rhode Island lawmaker says she was fired from her sales job at a local news station after accepting a leadership position with President Donald Trump’s state re-election campaign. Former Republican Rep. Doreen Costa says WLNE-TV warned her that taking the position would lead to her firing.

A Rhode Island casino operator has agreed to settle with the state over its claim that the company violated the terms of its business license. Twin River Worldwide Holdings has agreed to pay $180,000 and another $36 million in casino upgrades over three years but admits no fault.

The Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles wants people to pay $15 just to walk in the door. The agency plans to pitch a $15 “in-person” customer-service fee to Gov. Gina Raimondo in its annual budget request.

The father of a man accused of fatally stabbing a man at a Rhode Island hookah lounge has made a plea for his son to turn himself into police.

Police say a 4-year-old girl was accidentally shot in her bed by an upstairs neighbor cleaning his shotgun in Rhode Island. Providence Police say 22-year-old Lisandro Vicario Rodriguez was cleaning the shotgun around early Friday. Online court records do not list an attorney who could comment on Rodriguez’s behalf.

Brown University has placed a fundraising director on administrative leave following a report that accused him of participating in covering up disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Brown spokesman Brian Clark told The Providence Journal on Sunday that Peter Cohen, director of development for computer and data science, is on leave pending a...

A 76-year-old Connecticut man is walking from Yankee Stadium to Fenway Park in an effort to promote peace and not just between the two fan bases. Al Forte, of Stamford, Connecticut, tells the Providence Journal, he’s asking people along the way to pray for peace on earth, handing out cards showing six soldiers praying.

City officials in Providence have shut down a nightclub after three men were stabbed. The Providence Journal reports the city’s Board of Licenses ordered Noah Lounge to close until a Monday evening hearing during an emergency meeting on Saturday.

A Rhode Island man who proclaims himself the “world’s greatest counterfeiter” is heading to federal prison. The Providence Journal reports that 77-year-old Pawtucket resident Louis Colavecchio was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison on Wednesday for producing counterfeit $100 bills.

Rhode Island police have arrested a man they say stabbed a panhandler to death on a Providence street. Maj. David Lapatin tells The Providence Journal a man in his 50s was panhandling at an intersection at about 8 p.m. Monday when two other men approached and an argument ensued.

A Pawtucket, Rhode Island, man has been arrested after he reportedly sexually assaulted a teenager. According to the Providence Journal, Michael Hayworth, 60, of Pawtucket, was arrested Sunday after a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a wooded area off of the Ten Mile River Greenway bike path around 8 p.m. Friday.

Providence Police say a man who was apparently sleeping in the roadway has died after being run over by a vehicle.

A Pawtucket, Rhode Island, man has been arrested after he reportedly sexually assaulted a teenager. According to the Providence Journal, Michael Hayworth, 60, of Pawtucket, was arrested Sunday after a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a wooded area off of the Ten Mile River Greenway bike path around 8 p.m. Friday.

Providence Police say a man who was apparently sleeping in the roadway has died after being run over by a vehicle.

The Rhode Island mansion once owned by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton is on the market for nearly $12 million. The Providence Journal reports that Land’s End in Newport, where Wharton and her husband lived in the late 19th century, is for sale at $11.7 million. It was more recently owned by socialite Marion Oates Charles, who died there in December.

Aquarium officials euthanized a dolphin after it became stranded in a salt marsh in Barrington, Rhode Island on Wednesday. The Providence Journal reports the bottlenose dolphin was discovered early Wednesday morning by a caretaker of a house overlooking Smith’s Cove.

Actors from the HBO fantasy show “Game of Thrones” have sent greetings and well wishes to an 88-year-old hospice patient in Rhode Island.

Two dancers at a famous Rhode Island strip club have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor prostitution charges. The Providence Journal reports that 26-year-old Neish Rivera, of Pawtucket, and 32-year-old Melissa McNeely, of Madison, Connecticut, entered their pleas in Superior Court this week.