Providence RI

FALL RIVER (WBSM) — A Taunton man will spend up to six years in state prison for stabbing another man at an auto body shop in that town. Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III said Danyel Battle, 32, pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court on May 6 to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury.

Rhode Island banned disposable plastic straws at restaurants four years ago, never strictly enforced the ban and is now on the verge of trashing it. State senators on Tuesday, May 5, unanimously passed a bill that would gut most of the law that prohibited establishments from providing plastic straws with drinks unless a customer asked for one. How would it change the law? If...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — The Providence Police Department said it arrested a man in connection with an indecent exposure incident that occurred near a West End school. Twenty-year-old Janssye Toucet, Jr. was charged with indecent exposure/disorderly conduct. He was arrested on Peace Street around midnight Friday. Toucet was arraigned...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Kung Fu Tea on Waterman Street in Providence will close on May 14 after 10 years in business due to a building redevelopment. The bubble tea shop off of Thayer Street is the latest longtime business to shut down in the neighborhood. "I got notice...

(WJAR) — A woman was injured in a stabbing incident in Fall River early Friday morning. Police responded just after midnight to the area of Whipple Street and Hamlet Street. Responding officers found a woman had been stabbed. She was transported to a nearby hospital with what was described...

A West Warwick man has claimed the $2 million winning Powerball ticket from the April drawing. The Rhode Island Lottery said the ticket was from the April 29 drawing. The ticket matched five numbers, but not the Powerball number to win the standard payout of $1 million. However, the winner...

(WJAR) — A car smashed into a utility pole in Woonsocket early Friday morning. The incident happened around 1:00 a.m. on School Street. An NBC 10 news crew observed the pole fully snapped, which pulled the wires towards the sidewalk. The extent of injuries was not immediately known. This...

A status report filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island indicates that ICE is working to track down Bryan Rafael Gomez after he failed to turn himself in.

Robots have become a part of our daily lives, from robot vacuums to robot restaurant servers. There are even robotic cameras in our 12 News studio!

Warwick, RI Thomas Sweeney, SIOR of Sweeney Real Estate & Appraisal sold 1584-1590 Warwick Ave., the retail corner property of Hoxie Four Corners. The 1.52-acre site features a 4,404 s/f retail building alongside a 6,000 s/f auto service building. The site, located at the signalized intersection of Warwick Ave. and...