It took decades of activism for a change that was "so very healing," said McAvoy, pastor of Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church in Hope, Rhode Island. A member of the Queer Delegate ...

Surveillance footage led prosecutors to the suspect, according to the affidavit. A Rhode Island man faces federal charges for allegedly setting several fires and damaging a church in what ...

PROVIDENCE, R. I. – A Rhode Island man has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he set fire to a North Providence church earlier this year, targeting it because of its mostly Black membership ...

A Rhode Island man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly setting a predominantly Black church in North Providence on fire earlier this week, authorities said. Kevin Colantonio, 34, is accused of ...