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The officer was wearing a bulletproof vest, which stopped the knife. The suspect was shot by police and is hospitalized in stable condition.

High school hockey fans in Rhode Island stepped up with their voices to offer an assist after the audio cut out during the National Anthem.

The child’s body was recovered by a marine unit near Conimicut Point Monday. The night prior, the body of a 30-year-old man who tried to save her was located.

Authorities recovered the body of a 10-year-old girl from the waters off Rhode Island on Monday afternoon following a nearly 24-hour search. The Coast Guard said around 1:40 p.m. Monday that the child was recovered by a Warwick Fire Department marine unit near Conimicut Point following the massive search that had continued through the night Sunday into Monday. The girl…

Rescue crews were able to recover the body of a 30-year-old man who tried to save the girl, but the 11-year-old remained missing Sunday night.

A 30-year-old man’s body has been found during the search for him and an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the waters off Conimicut Point Park in Warwick, Rhode Island, on Sunday. The man was recovered unresponsive in Narragansett Bay and taken ashore to EMS, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Twitter just before 8:20 p.m. The U.S. Coast...

Rhode Island lawmakers opened the new legislative session on Tuesday, taking their oath of office and formally electing State Rep. Joseph Shekarchi as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. The 58-year-old Warwick Democrat succeeds former House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, who was defeated by Republican activist Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung in the November election. “My approach will be different,” Shekarchi…

Rhode Island is marking the 17th anniversary on Thursday of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured more than 200 others. The Feb. 20, 2003, blaze began when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable foam that lined the club’s walls as soundproofing. The fire quickly spread through the overcrowded club, and many people became trapped…

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...

Cranston Police say a man faces felony assault charges for allegedly attacking another man with a bat in an apparent road rage incident.

Yet another restaurant chain has disappeared from the local landscape, with this one being known for its Italian-American fare.

A Massachusetts community is heartbroken after an 18-year-old high school student was killed while taking a flight lesson Saturday. Julian Lattermann, of Dover, was on board a single-engine airplane with instructor Sydney Miti, 31, of Waltham, when it crashed nose-first into the ground at Mansfield Municipal Airport. Lattermann was a senior at Dover Sherborn Regional High School. “He was by...

The single-engine plane crashed nose-first into the ground Saturday, crushing the cockpit and killing an instructor and student pilot.

Two people are dead after a single-engine airplane crashed and caught fire at Mansfield Municipal Airport early Saturday afternoon, Massachusetts State Police say. An instructor and a student pilot were killed when the Cessna 172 aircraft crashed around 12:36 p.m. Officials have not yet released the victims’ identities....
The plane had taken off out of Norwood around 11:30 a.m., Mansfield Deputy...

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.

Sonic Drive-In opened a new restaurant in Warwick, Rhode Island on Friday. The new location on the northbound side of Route 2 opened at 2 p.m., according to WJAR.

A fast-moving fire has destroyed a Rhode Island church. Acting Warwick fire chief Marcel Fonteneault says the Wednesday night blaze gutted the Woodbury Union Church, and the building has been declared a total loss.

A fire broke out at a church in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Fire shot from the roof of a church Wednesday evening in Warwick, Rhode Island. NBC affiliate WJAR reports that a 2-alarm fire broke out at Woodbury Union Church on Beach Avenue around 7:45 p.m. on the evening before Thanksgiving.