On May 31, 1972, weeks into the trial, the defense called the Rev. Raymond B. Moriarty to the stand. The priest testified that he and Patriarca were boyhood friends and that Patriarca couldn't have ...

New Jersey may claim Tony Soprano, but Rhode Island now has the equally menacing mobster Tony “Untouchable” Martone, thanks to the imagination of a Connecticut author and filmmaker. Streaming on ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The FBI says its agents have recovered human remains from behind a mill building where the victim of a mob slaying is believed to have been buried 23 years ago. “Earlier this ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — On a sunny Tuesday morning a few days after Christmas in 2020, a man wearing a dark hoodie drove into the upper lot of the R.I. State House and parked his gray SUV. He hopped ...

Edward C. Lato, a longtime Rhode Island mobster who rose through the underworld ranks as the local Mafia fractured under the weight of criminal prosecutions, died Friday with members of his crew by ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Common Cause Rhode Island is calling on Gov. Dan McKee to change the state’s marijuana laws following a Target 12 investigation that revealed a top aide to House Speaker Joe ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Louis Manocchio, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Louis Manocchio, the last Rhode Island boss of the New England crime family, has died. He was 97. Steven O’Donnell, law enforcement analyst for Nexstar’s WPRI and a former ...