North Smithfield News

When state General Treasurer Frank Caprio floated the idea last week that Rhode Island might buy the ailing Twin River casino for "pennies on the dollar," I thought he might want to check with other Democratic ...

The Town of Cumberland and the City of Woonsocket are working on an agreement that could deliver an added margin of drinking water supply security to both communities.

A man was sentenced Thursday to serve seven years in prison in a deadly crash. Norman Soullier was convicted over the summer of leaving the scene of an accident, death resulting.

It was hard to tell where exactly the glitches began on primary election day. First a ballot pack got locked in a Providence school and a second one temporarily disappeared.

Get some food for thought. Tonight at 7 there's "Theology on Tap" at Uno Chicago Grill, 371 Putnam Pike, Smithfield.

Prepare for pumpkins, big ones and flying ones. The second annual North Smithfield Great Pumpkin Festival is Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the high school, at the junction of Routes 5 and 104.

A North Smithfield man is set to face a judge Wednesday after being accused of firing gunshots in front of his house Tuesday night.

Carolyn Leroy of Dunn's Corners, who quahogs at Brightman Pond across from the Misquamicut State Beach, says it's been a good year for clams.

Three communities had to report their poll numbers from yesterday's primary the old-fashioned way.

It is hard to believe that it has been seven years since we were all shaken as a nation.

First-time candidate Paulette Hamilton was the first-place finisher in the town administrator primary yesterday, and will face incumbent Robert B. Lowe, who came in second.

An island of peace amid the bustle of Logan International Airport was dedicated Tuesday to honor the 147 passengers and crew killed when terrorists flew two planes from here into New York City's World Trade ...

For the first time in decades, a Republican primary for town office will be held in this heavily-Democratic town.

North Smithfield, R.I.-The ribbon cutting for the town's $30 million middle school is postponed due to a problem with the school's sprinkler system.

It's been a banner summer for Barbara Schweitzer. On the last Tuesday in June, she learned she was the beneficiary of a $1,000 grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

NORTH SMITHFIELD Tim Sunn knows in his heart what makes the world go round and is equally sure that his chopped 1932 Ford 3-window coupe with a 400 horsepower Corvette engine is a pure hot rod.

One person was killed and another taken in for questioning after a fatal shooting in Narragansett Monday night.

A young girl who died, when she was caught in a flash flood last Thursday, has been identified as a Rhode Island resident.

Benjamin, 4, calls his grandmother RiRi. "I couldn't say Grandma at first so that came out." Pat Vanasse has helped care for Ben since he was born to her daughter, Nicole Houle, on March 25, 2004.

Officials say that the family swept downstream in flooding at a campground in Ashland, N.H., was from North Smithfield, R.I. But the fire department said yesterday it would not release the family's name at the ...