By KATHIE RALEIGH

RI Comic Con was back this weekend at the RI Convention Center and Dunkin Donuts Center venue, and didn’t disappoint the thousands showing up for a chance to meet a favorite sci-fi, DC, Marvel or Hollywood celebrity or act out a costumed fantasy of their own.

By JON BAKER

WORCESTER — Not all PawSox-related traditions were packed and loaded into moving vans and transported up Route 146. For that, we should doff our ballcaps in appreciation of several members of the franchise’s old guard keeping alive the decades-long practice of sending two youngsters from the…

By Leighah Beausoleil

By JON BAKER

By JON BAKER

By JON BAKER

The Preservation Society of Pawtucket recently presented Friends of the Looff Carousel with a $1,000 award for their work on the restoration of the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket’s Slater Park.

By JON BAKER

PAWTUCKET – Less than seven hours after identifying the young man shot and killed Saturday afternoon on Randall Street, police now are investigating a second shooting late Sunday night, one that resulted in the murder of a 19-year-old woman on Japonica Street.

Stop & Shop, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), announced Monday that select pharmacy locations across the Northeast are now offering Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in addition to existing supply of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which hav…

WOONSOCKET – An investigation by the Woonsocket Police Department continues after three males were stabbed, one seriously, in a public housing project Sunday in the aftermath of an altercation that began at a nightclub in Providence.

By JOSEPH B. NADEAU

PAWTUCKET – Former publisher of The Times, Paul V. Palange, died on Sunday at age 66.

CUMBERLAND ‒ Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy (BVP) conducted its annual lottery for the 2021-22 school year Thursday, April 1, randomly selecting 224 scholars for kindergarten admission and randomly generating a waitlist for additional seats that may become available in grades K-12. B…

By KATHIE RALEIGH

PAWTUCKET – Police continue to investigate two shooting incidents that occurred at two different sites in Pawtucket early Saturday morning.

PAWTUCKET – It’s that time of year again.

By JON BAKER

With COVID-19 continuing to force the postponement of traditional in-person college open houses and campus tours, the Community College of Rhode Island will host its next Virtual Open Houses for interested high school seniors and adult learners on Tuesday, March 16 at 6 pm and Saturday, Marc…

PROVIDENCE (AP) — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld a Pawtucket man’s second-degree murder conviction for the 2013 beating death of his 10-year-old daughter.

By JON BAKER

By JOSEPH B. NADEAU

CUMBERLAND — House Deputy Majority Whip Mia A. Ackerman (D-Dist. 45, Cumberland, Lincoln) has introduced legislation to encourage the building of tiny homes.

SEEKONK — The Little Sisters of the Poor announced this week that their annual St. Patrick’s Day Fundraiser at The Old Grist Mill Tavern will take place on Wednesday, March 17 from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. This year the format is carry-out.

PROVIDENCE—With a proclamation issued by Gina Raimondo in her last days as Rhode Island’s governor declaring March as “March for Meals Month,” R.I. Office of Healthy Aging Director Rose Amoros Jones on March 3 launched Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island’s month-long campaign alongside the organ…

PAWTUCKET –The gods of filmcraft must be smiling on Brian DeCubellis.

PROVIDENCE – The box office where people once picked up tickets to see the icons of sport and stage now functions as a row of registration booths for COVID-19 vaccine recipients.

By JON BAKER

PROVIDENCE -- Incoming Governor Dan McKee’s transition team released the names of authenticated applicants for the position of Lieutenant Governor.

By Larry McGuire, The Punxsutawney Spirit

PROVIDENCE – Age is suddenly all the rage in the state's vaccine distribution plan.

RUMFORD — Here we are, almost a month past Christmas Day, and Marc Kohler can’t bear the thought of taking down his artificial tree.

By RUSS OLIVO

LINCOLN – Clad in white protective suits, evidence-collecting state troopers scoured a Manville tenement Thursday in what investigators are describing – so far, anyway – as the suspicious deaths of a man and a woman.

By WILL WEISSERT, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AAMER MADHANI

By LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK  Associated Press

By LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK  Associated Press

WOONSOCKET — The most senior nurse in Landmark Medical Center’s ICU says the facility is wrestling with an onerous surge of coronavirus cases, but her job suddenly feels less emotionally taxing and more physically safer than it has in months.

PAWTUCKET – Like a third-base coach emphatically waving the baserunner to home plate, the Pawtucket Red Sox’ time at McCoy Stadium is rapidly approaching the climatic conclusion.

PAWTUCKET — The laundry list of frequently-asked questions rarely misses the mark upon learning that a public figure contracted COVID-19.

If you’re looking for holiday gifts for a loved one with a sweet tooth, a couple of Main Street businesses have got you covered.

By KATHIE RALEIGH