The Latest Breaking News from Rhode Island

Democrat David Cicilline leaves Congress to become CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation after voting Wednesday on the debt limit deal.

The future Ram reportedly also considered UMass before electing to commit to Rhode Island.

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