The Latest Breaking News from Rhode Island

Sports betting evolved into a vocation for the 70-year-old Cokin, who made book in Rhode Island and bolted to Vegas in 1981.

James Harrison, 52, was shot and killed by Rhode Island police after a chase and standoff

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals," commonly referred to as PFAS, saying they have caused significant harm to the state's residents and natural resources

It appears Michigan State is trending in the right direction for a quickly rising prospect in the 2024 class

A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window showing a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women has been rediscovered in a Rhode Island church

High school sophomore Josie felt Florida officials were threatening her health care and ability to be feel safe at school. So she left. Other families of trans youth are plotting their exits as well.

University said 18th-century philosopher and bishop bought enslaved people to work on his Rhode Island estate

The Berkeley Library was named after philosopher George Berkeley who "bought slaves, named Philip, Anthony, Edward, and Agnes Berkeley, to work on his Rhode Island estate in 1730-31"

This move by Missouri’s attorney general is the first attack on gender-affirming care for transgender adults – and it won’t be the last

Providence, Rhode Island, police captain Stephen J. Gencarella was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading no contest to simple assault. Gencarella and another officer arrested Armando Rivas after he refused to move his vehicle from the travel lane of an interstate on-ramp. Rivas struggled with the two officers.…

Ernesto Ortega Lima and his family were separated in 2018 as they tried to cross into the US while fleeing gang violence in Guatemala