Cumberland News

A Cumberland man, accused of robbing a bank earlier this week, was arrested Thursday after he tried to run down a state trooper with his vehicle, according to police.

A bank robbery suspect accused of trying to run down a Rhode Island State Police sergeant Thursday night in Providence is being held without bail following his arraignment Friday in District Court, Providence.

Parade seekers needn't limit their search to Bristol and Glocester. They can also consider heading to Cumberland, where The Arnold Mills Fourth of July Celebration starts with a 9 a.m. four-mile road race at North Cumberland Fire Station, 50 Arnold Mills Road.

By JIM BARON PROVIDENCE - The General Assembly's slow pace in moving legislation this session has forced unpleasant choices on both itself and Gov.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in Washington on Monday that Rhode Island may be putting itself at "at a huge competitive disadvantage" for securing federal stimulus dollars.

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.

Watch out for deer ticks -- their population is up sharply, according to preliminary results from the University of Rhode Island's statewide Tick Encounter Risk Survey .

Fire crews have brought an early morning fire in a two-story building at 150 Mendon Rd.

A man driving a red Pathfinder SUV injures two people on Lonsdale Ave in Lincoln, a third in Cumberland, and himself after crashing his car into them while trying to flee police.

The two "bounty hunters" who tangled with the police and ended up under arrest after they plied their new trade in Woonsocket by allegedly forcing their way into a woman's apartment and handcuffing her have a problem with state law, the attorney general's office said Thursday.

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.

There had been unexpected challenges along the way, and more challenges appeared on the horizon, but the Cumberland High School Class of 2009 had made it to a triumphant, rain-free graduation day - or so it seemed.

Woonsocket police officer Thomas Gormley was on duty Tuesday night on Sunrise Avenue and Dawn Boulevard when he saw a prowler he didn't expect in a yard.

The men surrendered to police and face charges of simple assault and breaking into a house without consent.

Residents in Cumberland and Woonsocket have recently reported seeing a black bear.

On 05/08/09 Sgt Jennifer North was contacted by a member of the Cumberland Police Department regarding an arrest.

The case against Susset was brought by 57-year-old Woon Kam Youngsaye, of Cumberland, who suffered from kidney disease and eventually had to undergo a kidney transplant.

As a social studies teacher in Harlem and a cheerleader coach for middle school students in Providence, Jeremy Chiappetta has always been committed to giving urban children some of the same opportunities as their more affluent peers.

Almost all of Kaisey Croft's early childhood memories are fuzzy, whether they date back to those golden days before she had cancer, or to some other time after her doctors finally sighed in relief.

State education officials approved a new kind of charter school Friday, a mayoral academy that, for the first time, puts municipal leaders in charge of one these alternative public schools.