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Two Providence police officers are being investigated "in relation to their response" to a standoff with an armed man.

July 21, 2021 10:29 pm PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – Two Providence police officers have been suspended with pay amid an investigation into the use of force during an incident earlier in July. Providence police tell ABC6 the incident happened on July 9. Three teenagers were driving in a car, allegedly pointing and shooting BB guns at people, including a police officer. This led to a brief chase that ended with the teenagers crashing into a fire hydrant. The three teens were arrested. An investigation is now underway involving the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office, Providence Police, and ...

Local poke shop opened in 2018 Ting said she is just glad she can be back at the business she helped build from a incubator kitchen at Hope & Main in Warren and a mobile food cart. The restaurant opened at 185 Camp St. in 2018. Ting’s winning bid secured her the restaurant name, location and food truck. She wasn’t able to reopen until April because she said she had to reincorporate to get all new permits, accounts and to buy some new equipment. Ting and Brady’s  restaurant ownership was dissolved last year when lawsuits over that ownership went unresolved even after mediation. Though t...

PROVIDENCE — There's good news that Armando Bisceglia, the amiable owner of Bacco Vino & Contorni, is on the road to recovery. After several weeks on a ventilator suffering with COVID-19, he took to social media Wednesday to post a 30 second video. "We're doing okay. We're going to be alright," he said. "Today was a good day." Though clearly weak and still receiving oxygen, Bisceglia took time to say thanks for all the messages sent his way while he was critically ill.  "We’re going to move forward and we’re going to do what we do," he said on the Facebook video.

He fought hard to hold on, scrappy and passionate like the state he embraced. But now this. Word went out this week that Armando Bisceglia is so ill with COVID that he’s on a ventilator. He’s a reminder of the toll the virus still takes. I first met him as manager at Zooma when, selflessly, he urged me to write about a compatriot named Billy Manzo, a “master pizzaioli” constantly pushing for the Holy Grail of the genre at Manzo’s two restaurants, Federal Hill Pizza of Warren and Providence. That was August of 2019. His idea was to bring his old world family recipes, and southern Ita...