Providence RI

PROVIDENCE — Members of the Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Stephen P. Wehgbay, age 33, of 26 Coggeshall Street Apt. 3L, Providence, on Sept. 9. Wehgbay was arrested on an affidavit/arrest warrant from the Providence Police Department for domestic assault. He also faced a Providence County Superior...

Bridget Phillips, Rhode Island native, reveals the untold truth behind her $13K romance scam featured on Netflix’s "Love Con Revenge."

Emerson DaCruz, an industrial painter from Pawtucket, was looking forward to joining the roughly 1,000 local union workers that have raked in 2 million hours building a new wind farm off Rhode Island's coast.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — A day after Hasbro announced that they would be moving to Boston, Pawtucket’s mayor said that it didn’t come as a major surprise, but that the loss of the company still hurt. Mayor Don Grebien said that Hasbro’s attorney reached out to his...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Providence Police Department said they are searching for a suspect in multiple breaking and entering incidents around Sept. 4. The incidents occurred on the east side of the city. “The suspect appears to be targeting closed businesses and has been recorded wearing a grey...

Officials have identified the 37-year-old man who was killed after crashing into a wall in West Warwick over the weekend.

Gov. Dan McKee is working to reduce energy costs for Rhode Islanders during high-usage winter months.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — It's no secret that electric rates always go up in the winter, but both Rhode Island Energy and utility regulators say ratepayers likely will not experience bills as high as what they saw last winter. Rhode Island Energy's proposed winter supply rate for Last Resort...

Rhode Island is the utility company's largest customer. Regulators ordered an audit after state officials discovered major issues with their bills.

(WJAR) — Providence police said an elementary school behavior interventionalist was arrested for allegedly biting a student last week. According to police, they responded to Lillian Feinstein Elementary School on 159 Sackett St. for a report of threats last Friday. The school principal told police that there was an...