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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By News staff PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The brother of Providence Mayor David Cicilline has been released from a halfway house in Boston , where he served part of his sentence for shaking down drug-dealing clients. John M. Cicilline, a former criminal defense lawyer who has been disbarred, was sentenced in September 2008 to 18 months in federal prison after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors....
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Amanda Milkovits PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A registered sex offender is back in prison after police said he tried to lure an 8-year-old girl away from her parents at the American Expo Flea Market . Victor H. Pizarro, 24, was hanging out at a friend's booth at the flea market when he noticed the little girl, whose parents are also vendors at the market, said Detective Theodore Michael. The young Providence...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Amanda Milkovits PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Six weeks out of prison, Janssye Toucet was at the Mi Sueno nightclub in South Providence Saturday night -- with a loaded .45 caliber handgun in his pockets, according to the police. When a fight erupted outside the nightclub, people started shouting to the police that there was a man with a gun. They pointed to Toucet, who clutched at his right pants pocket...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Kate Bramson PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Firefighters called to a house fire Monday night in the vicinity of 17 Huldah St. discovered that it wasn't the house on fire -- at least initially -- but a 2001 Land Rover parked on the street in front of the house. About eight feet from the three-family home, the car fire was hot enough, though, that it melted the vinyl siding on the Silver Lake building, according...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Amanda Milkovits PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- She was just a young girl who wanted to buy some candy. Trouble is, the police say, the 13-year-old girl from Mount Pleasant was using a counterfeit $10 bill. The manager of the 7-Eleven at 549 Charles St . called police on Friday morning, where the girl had come over before heading to Esek Hopkins Middle School. Instead, the girl ended up under arrest for possession...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Gregory Smith PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The City Council, frosted by the apparent reluctance of the police to enforce the snow-shoveling ordinance, has now assigned an extra cop to the beat: The Department of Public Works. City officials have amended an ordinance that dates to 1914 in an attempt to get serious about a requirement that property owners, occupants and caretakers clear snow from their sidewalks...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
By Gregory Smith PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three teenagers who spat on and roughed up a family of four at Providence Place mall have been sentenced in Family Court to punishment varying from probation to a residential correctional program. A 16-year-old youth who the police said is an associate of the Goonies street gang has been given the stiffest punishment as the result of the unprovoked attack: One year...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Autopsies show the five victims of a weekend house fire in Warwick died of smoke inhalation. The...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Three juveniles have been sentenced in Family Court for their roles in an unprovoked attack...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. PROVIDENCE, R.I. - If you want your mail picked up Wednesday, you'd better get it to a mailbox by noon, the U.S. Postal Service announced late Tuesday. The blue collection boxes will not be emptied in the afternoon because of the looming snowstorm, according to a statement from Southeast New England District Manager John W. Powers III. "But advancing the collection of your...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Amanda Milkovits PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A prank by a Perry Middle School student to pour dry-erase board cleaner into her teacher's water bottle ended with the 13-year-old girl in handcuffs. Teacher Hannah Caisse was about to take a sip from her purple water bottle on Feb. 3 when one of her students warned her not to drink it, according to the police. Several students had seen one of the girls pouring...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio will not be running for Rhode Island governor as anything else but a Democrat, he said in a Journal interview Tuesday afternoon. He was responding to a Journal reporter's questions about continued speculation that he may leave the Democratic Party and pursue a bid for governor as a Republican or Independent. "I'm running as...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Kate Bramson PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As two Providence detectives conducted routine patrols early Tuesday morning, a man dressed all in black and wielding a cordless power saw at a construction site caught their attention. At about 12:25 a.m., Detectives Shawn Maxwell and William Corrigan thought the man was tampering with a big electrical box behind a newly constructed building at Silver Spring Street...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Theodore Palumbo, 16, of East Greenwich and Cheyenne Clarkin, 13, of Charlestown today were named Rhode Island's top two youth volunteers for 2010 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. The awards program, now in its 15th year, is conducted by Prudential Financial in partnership...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Andy Smith PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Slater Technology Fund , a state-backed venture capital fund that invests in Rhode Island start-up companies, announced Tuesday it is investing $500,000 in CytoSolv, Inc., a new company that is developing a drug to help heal wounds. The company is developing the drug from the brain cells of pigs. And not just any pigs. CytoSolv's porcine cells come from a unique...
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