Central Falls News

Michael Tusoni didn't mince words when he fired a pair of queries at U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who held a community dinner at the Lusitania Club on Tuesday night.

Central Falls police arrested four people in connection with a stabbing. Police said Evan Botelho, of Lincoln, was stabbed Tuesday night during a fight near Jenks Park.

A Central Falls Councilwoman, whom the police say was driving erratically on Great Road in Lincoln Friday night with a juvenile male asleep in the back seat of a car she said wasn't hers, has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving on a suspended license and with refusal to submit to a chemical test.

A 17-year-old boy will be arraigned Wednesday in Family Court in connection with a stabbing that landed another teenager in Rhode Island Hospital Tuesday night.

Police from Central Falls and Pawtucket responded to a stabbing just before 9pm Tuesday night.

Deborah A. Gist, Rhode Island's new commissioner of elementary and secondary education, is so excited about her new job that she began a day early, attending a news conference Tuesday morning to announce the launch of five summer learning programs in urban districts.

A Central Falls city councilwoman is accused of drunken driving. Eunice Delahoz was arrested by Lincoln police on Friday night.

The governing board of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility , at the urging of its major bondholders, has hired a management consultant to determine whether operational and administrative improvements are necessary to make the troubled jail more financially secure.

The Rhode Island House Finance Committee budget unveiled last week slashed $1.5 million for two new charter schools in Central Falls and Cumberland, both of which would serve minority students.

Not only did the June 11 visit of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez to the city go off without a hitch, but it was reportedly one of the most enjoyable stops on his East Coast itinerary.

Central Falls Mayor Charles Moreau is offering $50 of his own money for each gun, rifle or shotgun turned in during a gun buyback scheduled for Saturday at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility 's training center.

The late June weather may be damp and cool, but an early start to election season is already heating things up in the Square Mile City.

Rhode Island has an opportunity to provide high-quality education options to children and their families through two new charter schools that the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education has recently approved.

Eugene Racquier, the longest serving member of the governing board that oversees the troubled Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility resigned on Monday.

Paddlers and pedalers are celebrating the arrival of summer with guided kayak and bike trips organized by Rhode Island conservation groups.

Members of the Central Falls Police spent their Friday evening and night going door to door, collecting fines due to the City, and arresting those with outstanding warrants and tickets.

An affordable housing advocacy group says a Rhode Island family earning the state's median income can afford a home in just nine of the state's 39 cities and towns.

This residence at 49 Sheridan St. in Central Falls, R.I., is a suspected brothel and residence of one of the men linked to a Warwick, R.I., brothel Monday, June 15, 2009.

A local man is charged with drunken driving and attempting to elude the police after his involvement in two crashes that injured three people on busy roads in Cumberland and Lincoln Tuesday afternoon, according to the police.

A self-employed businessman, a mother whose daughter has a chronic illness and the owner of a small manufacturing company turned out at a public forum on Monday night to criticize proposed hikes in health insurance.