Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch announced today that Robert Payette, 47, formerly of 19 Maple Ave. in West Warwick, has received a life prison term for having been convicted of stabbing Ronald Dufour Sr. to death and dumping Dufour’s body down an embankment outside a West Warwick apartment...

Judge Bennett R. Gallo this afternoon sentenced Anderson Price, a habitual criminal who is a registered sex offender in four states, to four years to serve out of the possible five-year maximum penalty that could have been imposed, on the count of felony child enticement that a Washington County...

Please note: An indictment, information, or complaint is merely an allegation. The U.S. Constitution guarantees that a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. Richard Marold, DOB: 2/5/55 251 Long Street Warwick, RI K1-2009-0662A The Kent County...

After a hearing that spanned parts of five days in Kent County 3rd Division District Court, Judge Frank J. Cenerini yesterday ordered Michael J. Patino, accused of fatally injuring 6-year-old Marco Nieves of Cranston, held without bail at the ACI pending the State’s indictment and prosecution of...

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch announced today that he and the attorneys general of 39 other states and territories have sent a letter urging Congress to uphold the role of the states in enforcing consumer protection laws should Congress create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA),...

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch is urging the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources to “proceed with caution” on amending the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) in order to give the US Secretary of the Interior “the unchecked power to take land into trust at his or her choosing.

Having announced in June that he would intervene in the Public Utilities Commission’s consideration of Narragansett Electric’s request to raise its electricity distribution rates by nearly 30 percent, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch announced today that he has intervened in the PUC’s examination...

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch will be honored this evening by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) with a FOSI Award for Outstanding Achievement, given to those individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to advancing the goal of a safer Internet. Lynch will be...

Please note: An indictment, information, or complaint is merely an allegation. The U.S. Constitution guarantees that a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. Dennis DiPinto, DOB: 5-13-63 993 Manton Avenue, Apt. 305 Providence, RI P1-2009-3314A ...

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has determined that the City of Woonsocket violated the Access to Public Records Act (APRA) when it failed to respond to a request made by Lt. Steven R. Reilly, President of Woonsocket Firefighters Local 732, International Association of Firefighters, for certain...