Account
Police are searching for a missing University of Rhode Island student who was traveling home to southeastern Pennsylvania last week, but never made it.Investigators say 21-year-old Collegeville resident Matthew Royer was last seen leaving his apartment in Rhode Island on Thursday.State police in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are attempting to locate him and family members tell WFMZ-TV that Royer's cellphone registered activity early Friday near Interstate 78 and Route 309 in Lehigh County.Authorities say he was driving a silver 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt with Pennsylvania registration....
Police are investigating reports of a gunman at the University of Rhode Island.Steven O'Donnell, head of the Rhode Island State Police, tells The Associated Press on...
A rare yellow lobster pulled from Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay is heading to college.Lobsterman Denny Ingram said Wednesday that the yellow lobster will be moving...
A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Dan Hurley has agreed to a contract extension with the University of Rhode Island, officially el...
University of Rhode Island baseball player Joseph Paul Ciancola passed away Thursday following a medical emergency during a team preseason conditioning workout, the ...
Flooding on a scale rarely seen in New England forced hundreds of people from their homes Wednesday, overwhelmed sewage systems to the point that families were asked...
The University of Rhode Island gets to welcome the two new members of CAA Football in September.The Rams have an early stretch of conference games, including the fir...
The University of Rhode Island is reconsidering its impending move from CAA Football to the Northeast Conference next year.The move has been planned since 2010, but ...
Rhode Island has fired men's basketball coach Jim Baron after 11 seasons.The announcement was made Sunday, one day after a loss to Massachusetts dropped the Rams to ...
In 2010, the man who'd helped Boston win its first World Series in more than 80 years came to Rhode Island promising the job-starved state something even better: hun...
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- Stacey Marcure thought she and her family had survived the worst of flooding two weeks ago, when no more than 5 inches of water seeped into her...
In hopes of reducing the University of Rhode Island's carbon footprint, sophomore Eric Mundorf and junior Nicole Grecco, members of Student Action for Sustainability...
Throughout my 15-plus year career, I've seen countless diet and weight loss tactics, from powders, pills and potions, to unorthodox treatments, like ice baths and ea...
The parents of a University of Rhode Island student who vanished while driving home to Pennsylvania are pleading for his safe return. 21-year-old Matthew Roye left h...
The University of Rhode Island announced on Twitter that its lockdown Thursday has ended and classes will resume on Friday. There was no gun or active shooter at any...
Kingstown campus locked down
The University of Rhode Island will remain a member of CAA Football, director of athletics Thorr Bjorn announced Tuesday.URI had announced in November 2010 that it w...
If Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns are anything, they are fiercely independent — right down to the point where each and every one has its own rules for setting up...
Only those with access to a time machine can accurately predict whether a new head coach will achieve the level of success imagined by the athletic director who hire...
Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has apologized for remarks Monday in which he linked Oklahoma "cyclones" to climate change while berating Republicans...