William Strain News Today

​​All information reported in the Police Beat is obtained from police department press releases. Defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

WOONSOCKET – Acting on a telephone call for help from one of the alleged assailant’s children, the police arrested a city man for assaulting a woman at home last Saturday.

WOONSOCKET – Police arrested a man early Monday morning who had allegedly been arguing loudly and rough-housing with his cousin.

A printing plate used for the historical Ulster Covenant has sold for £15,000 at a Belfast auction house.

LINCOLN — Town Administrator Phil Gould said his fingers are crossed that the weather will cooperate for the weekend’s festivities, planned to commemorate Lincoln’s 150th anniversary as a town.

This article has been updated from a previous version. PAWTUCKET – Pawtucket police have arrested a man charged with shooting and killing his father during an altercation in Woonsocket late Wednesday night. Alex Cote, 22, has been charged with the shooting death of his father, 43-year-old Adam Castonguay. Castonguay was found dead in his apartment at 41 Village Road in Woonsocket around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning. According to Woonsocket police, Castonguays girlfriend called to report an alte...