Two young figure skaters and their mothers died when an American Airlines plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington D.C. Wednesday.

The man arrested Monday after admitting to carrying two Molotov cocktails and two knives onto the U.S. Capitol grounds has been identified as 24-year-old Ryan M. English from Rhode Island.

The four members of Rhode Island's Congressional delegation are working to prevent a delay in receiving federal grants awarded for the Washington Bridge.A recen

A Rhode Island teen was on the jet that collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.

A contingent of 23 troopers helped officers with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, staffing a detail that kept them on Pennsylvania Avenue for 15 hours on inauguration day, according to Rhode Island State Police Maj. John Allen, who commands the organization's uniformed division.

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib

President Biden previously ordered that flags fly at half-staff until Jan. 28 to honor former President Jimmy Carter.

A new letter from Rhode Island’s congressional delegates to the federal Office of Management and Budget asks the office’s acting director, Matthew Vaeth, to confirm that all previously approved funding for local projects will be released to the state.

A Trump administration order to pause federal spending on Tuesday led to bureaucratic bedlam in Rhode Island and across the country as state government officials tried to assess the local impact of suddenly turning off federal spigots.

Jan. 29, 64 people on a regional passenger plane and three soldiers on board a Black Hawk helicopter were involved in a deadly mid-air collision

A 1997 graduate from Syracuse University and her son are among the 67 people who died when a regional jet crashed with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C.

Two teen figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 from the skating community in the D.C. plane collision.