home once upon a time to the Patriarca crime family and a mayor who was elected as a crime buster but later did four years in the state pen for racketeering conspiracy. Stuff happened, but ...

On its 100th anniversary, Rhode Island's state police force looks to the future in a 2020s era that shares some similarities ...

Their holsters carried Colt 45 revolvers in deference to the Rhode Island connections of the Colt family ... Raymond L.S. Patriarca, who managed one of the richest crime families in the U.S ...

Working on this project reinforced to me how the history of any news organization is also the history of its community,” Ted ...

Harrington targeted some of the region’s most notorious organized crime figures and corrupt public ... according to his family. He was 91. “He had a very good life,” said Mr. Harrington ...