North Providence News

Born in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers flew, she lived in Providence all her life, except when she was 10 and the family returned to Italy and then moved back to Rhode Island.

In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt was President and a loaf of bread cost about seven cents.

The former pizza place next to the old Butcher Block deli is going to be a pizza place once more.

Senate Democrats gathered for an unannounced closed-door dinner at Camille's on Federal Hill last Thursday, following a relatively quiet legislative week.

TV reports that Justin Santiago was killed late Wednesday. School officials announced the death over the public address system on Thursday morning.

A 64-year-old Providence man was remanded to the Adult Correctional Institutions Monday following his arrest over the weekend on charges of shoplifting more than $100 in Gillette razors from the Stop & Shop supermarket on Mineral Spring Avenue.

The last time we stopped at Olneyville New York System, most of the acoustic anarcho-punk band Blackbird Raum were holding down a booth and Rick Rolle, who prefers to be known as DJ Soundscape, had just taken a stool at the counter.

Governor Chafee on Friday nominated former Senate President and current District Court Magistrate Joseph Montalbano to the Superior Court bench.

A 57-year-old Cranston man asserted to police that he can drink as much as he wants, but that didn't stop him from being charged with driving under the influence and refusing a chemical test by Johnston Police after he was observed driving through a stop sign and drifting over the fog line.

One of several people charged as part of a federal investigation into an alleged $10 million kickback scheme targeting the U.S. Navy has agreed to plead guilty to tax evasion.

RI NORTH PROVIDENCE FLAG RAISING http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/05/07/anc-ri-north-providence-flag-raising%E2%80%8F/ May 7, 2013 PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Under a bright sunny sky, the town of North Providence, the first in the state to host a flag-raising ceremony for the genocide, continued on April 26 its tradition at the Centerdale Town Hall.

Massachusetts authorities announced this month that two men have pleaded guilty to charges they fraudulently collected an insurance payment of more than $23,000. "These defendants conspired to obtain payment for a closed insurance claim," Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a statement.

When you bite into a wiener at Olneyville NY System on Reservoir Avenue, you're eating the fifth best hot dog in the United States.

Rhode Island has become the 10th state in the US to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, as a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this heavily Roman Catholic state ended with the triumphant cheers of hundreds of gays, lesbians, their families and friends.

Two late criminal justice leaders in Rhode Island from East Providence will be among seven inducted into the Rhode Island Criminal Justice Hall of Fame Thursday evening.

There is something almost primal about putting food to fire. And with the most frantic part of the year behind us, there is more time to do it these days.

Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio, D-North Providence, said Tuesday that he's open to public financing for the now vacant 'Superman' building in downtown Providence that is the state's tallest skyscraper.

For more information on any of these reports, visit http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/News/ Senate approves same-sex marriage bill In a 26-12 vote, the Senate approved legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry in Rhode Island, effective Aug.

Here are the highlights from news and events that took place in the General Assembly this week.

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