East Providence News

Paiva Weed picks DaPonte to head Senate Finance Committee

Providence Journal - Tue Nov 18

In her first act since fellow Democrats endorsed her for Senate president, Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed yesterday announced that she has chosen Sen.

Digging for victim of mob hit suspended for second day

Providence Journal - Tue Nov 18

Journal photo / Bob Thayer Law enforcement officials look on as two backhoes dig today for the remains of a mobster believed to be Joseph "Joe Onions" Scanlon in a side yard of an apartment complex at 378 ...

Site of mobster's body may be all wet

Providence Journal - Tue Nov 18

Former Rhode Island Atty. Gen. Dennis J. Roberts II, who prosecuted Nicholas S. Pari and Andrew F. Merola for the assassination of Joseph "Joe Onions" Scanlon 30 years ago, says he will be mighty surprised if ...

30 years later, digging for a mobster's body

Providence Journal - Mon Nov 17

Journal photo / Bill Murphy State Police detectives and FBI agents watch as a backhoe goes to work this afternoon in the backyard of Lisboa Apartments at 378 Bullocks Point Ave.

RI police dig for victim of decades-old mob hit

The Associated Press - Mon Nov 17

The Rhode Island State Police on Monday arrested 18 people allegedly connected to Mafia rings and used a backhoe to dig through an East Providence lot searching for the victim of a three-decade-old mob hit.

Police dig for victim of decades-old mob hit

Turnto10.com - Mon Nov 17

Rhode Island State Police have arrested 18 people allegedly connected to Mafia crime rings, and are digging in East Providence to find the victim of a three-decade old mob hit.

East Providence teachers union decries criticism by school officials

Providence Journal - Sun Nov 16

The teachers union, after what it called several days of "simmering" over published comments by local school officials, has sharply rejected their assertions that the teachers are "living large" at taxpayers' ...

Pedestrian killed in Thompson

The Boston Globe - Sun Nov 16

Connecticut state police are investigating an accident in Thompson that killed a pedestrian.

Battleship Rhode Island remembered in East Providence

Providence Journal - Sat Nov 15

You can't forget what you didn't know: Battleship Rhode Island. The U.S. Navy did have such a ship, and Reinhard Wohlgemuth, a member of the Rhode Island Postcard Club, has proof: postcards.

Cruiser collides with truck

Providence Journal - Fri Nov 14

A police officer was hurt in a collision downtown, near the Westin Providence, yesterday afternoon after he tried to catch a driver who had gone through a red light, according to the police.