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WOONSOCKET – In a first for the city, a local police chief is now a rising member on the executive board of the leading professional association that heads up legislative

It was the third high-profile stabbing in Rhode Island in less than a week.

Woonsocket Police Dept. wins accreditation for second time

WOONSOCKET – A report of gunfire on Front Street drew multiple police units to 148 Front St. Monday evening where an apartment check was conducted by officers backed up by

A man who was wanted for failing to pay restitution tried to evade police Friday afternoon in a gambit that caused injury and mayhem, police say.

Every Friday, GoLocalProv takes a look at who is rising and who is falling in Rhode Island and national politics, business, culture, and sports.

Bristol Police Chief Lynch to lead chiefs association

Woonsockets police chief acknowledges officers used force in arresting three youths at Autumnfest, and says the teens resistance made that necessary.

The body of a Woonsocket man, who had been behaving "erratically," was hauled from the Blackstone River Sunday night, Woonsocket police say.

Officer Connor Doyle, 27, of the Woonsocket Police Department in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, helped deliver a baby girl who was born roughly 25 weeks premature.