Valley Falls News

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

With changes in the pension system for state employees and teachers, reductions in human service programs, hikes in taxes on capital gains and gasoline, some perhaps temporary patches with the fiscal equivalent of Band-aids and chewing gum, and an infusion of nearly a quarter billion dollars of federal stimulus money, the House Finance Committee ...

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

The firefighter was treated on scene, according to Lt. Stephen Duda of the Cumberland police.

Around 19:30 on Saturday evening Cumberland Police arrived at Hopkins Terrace and Kelly Street and reported fire in a 1.5 story dwelling.

Police say the fire broke through the roof of a home at 35 Hopkins Terrace, in the Valley Falls section, around 7:15 pm.

The state in April increased the excise tax on cigarettes by $1, to $3.46 a pack, the highest in the country.

On a 38-33 vote, the House of Representatives once again passed legislation that would require all employers in the state to check the immigration status of new employees to ensure they are eligible to work.

With only a few dissenting exceptions, local parents, educators and community leaders turned out to support the establishment of a mayoral academy charter school as an alternative to the education public schools are currently offering.

The police knew just where to turn when they found Rita Paiva lying dead in her blood-soaked bed early Monday in her dreary cottage-style house in the town's Valley Falls section.

An elderly man struck by a car last night in the vicinity of 117 Broad St. remains in Rhode Island Hospital this morning with injuries that do not appear life-threatening, according to the police.

He robbed. He ran. He swam. But the finish line for Alvin Murray's bank-robbing triathlon in Cumberland last summer came Friday with a 10-year sentence in federal prison.

CUMBERLAND IS READY to move forward with his controversial "mayoral academies" - " possibly launching an elementary school in the Valley Falls section as soon as September - " but only if next year's state ...

Anthony Gemma and Larry Riggs weren't shy about requesting changes in how the Rhode Island Senate enacts legislation to better relationships with both area businesses, and help them "grow jobs." Business owners ...

Firefighters battled freezing temperatures early Monday morning as they responded to a minor house fire on Broad Street.