Westerly
CRIME & SAFETY
Seventy-one-year-old man dies at Westerly beach after he was hit by wave
WESTERLY − A 71-year-old man died at a beach in Westerly Thursday afternoon, according to the Westerly police. The man appears to have suffered fatal injuries when a wave crashed over him while he was wading at Weekapaug Inn Beach, according to Westerly Chief Paul J. Gingerella. The police do not consider it a drowning, he said.
Police reports, bodycam video reveal new details in Hopkinton domestic murder-suicide
(WJAR) — Newly released bodycam video from May 2024 shows an incident six weeks before Stephanie Francis was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Joseph Francis. Hopkinton police responded to the couple's family home back in May. The footage and newly obtained police records reveal more information on...
Assault suspect jumps in river in an attempt to flee from police in New London
Train services were temporarily interrupted on Thursday afternoon when authorities apprehended an assault suspect who had fled near railroad tracks in New London and into a river, where he refused to come out for over an hour, police said. Officers responded to an unspecified location in the New London around 1:11 p.m. on Thursday after a woman called 911 and said she had been assaulted, ...
Man dies after being pulled from water in Narragansett
A man is dead after he was pulled from the water Friday in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Fire officials tell NBC10 Boston affiliate WJAR that they responded around 1:24 p.m. to a report of a man in the pond near a residence on 24 East Shore Road near the Block Island Ferry Dock.
Medical Emergency Causes Head-On Voluntown Crash
Voluntown, CT – A man experiencing a medical emergency struck another vehicle head-on Saturday morning sending himself and two others to the hospital. At approximately 10:17 AM on Saturday, July 20th, 2024, the Voluntown Vol. Fire Co., Lisbon Ambulance Service, American Ambulance Service Paramedic, and Connecticut State Police (CSP) Troop E were dispatched to the area of 593 Rockville Rd, Rt 138, for a multi-vehicle accident with reported entrapment.
Electric Golf Cart Fire Spreads To CT Vacation House
Elizabeth Regan – The Day, New London, Conn. Jul. 20—OLD LYME — A vacation house caught fire in the White Sands Beach neighborhood Saturday after an electric golf cart went up in flames, according to Fire Marshal David Roberge. Roberge said the Old Lyme Fire Department arrived...
South Kingstown police alert residents to rabid raccoon
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WJAR) — South Kingstown police said Friday that a sick raccoon captured last week tested positive for rabies. The animal was found July 12 on Indigo Point Road. Several people and a pet dog were exposed to the rabid raccoon. Police said anyone else who may...
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