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A jury convicted a Lancaster city man of killing another Lancaster man after a drug deal at an East Lampeter Township motel in March 2020.

A Lancaster County jury convicted Daijour L. Stennett for shooting another man multiple times after the man threw something at Stennett’s car in November 2021.

After months of sounding the alarm, the Block Island Water Company, under the supervision of John Breunig has finally gotten the attention of the Town Council. At a joint meeting of the Council and the joint boards of the water and sewer departments...

In an interesting twist, Block Island will, when it’s approved have a lower electric rate than most of the rest of Rhode Island and many customers in Massachusetts, even though it is going up very slightly. “That’s a real change in fortune,” said...

A Lancaster County judge declared a mistrial Friday after jurors could not reach a verdict in the fatal shooting of a Lancaster man after a drug deal at an East

In a celebration that was more exciting for the adults than for the kids, Block Island took delivery of a brand new electric school bus on Saturday, October 15. It’s just the third electric school bus in the state of Rhode Island, Westerly having...

A Lancaster County jury convicted an East Petersburg man of giving a woman fentanyl that resulted in her fatal overdose in February 2020.

Christopher Warfel, of Entech Engineering, a solar installation firm, is a regular presence at Block Island Utility District Board of Commissioners meetings. And he is usually critical of the board, mainly because he doesn’t like their policies...

The Marine will now have a chance to have their criminal charges reduced, dismissed, or expunged, according to the office of District Attorney Heather Adams.

Perhaps not the swankiest thing to do on a hot summer Saturday afternoon but with the enticement of ice cream, swag, and a talk by Nobel Prize winner Michael Oppenheimer, the Block Island Utility District’s Annual meeting on Saturday was well...