West Warwick News

Sydnee goes about 4-foot-11 and weighs in at 86 pounds. Her game is basketball. She likes to play her games on a court, not a video screen.

Whipping past in the high-speed lane of Route 95 early Monday, David Romano noticed a woman standing in front of a wrecked car in the highway's far-right breakdown lane.

November is Alzheimera TMs Awareness Month. To commemorate this event, a group of CCRI students are hosting a pasta dinner fundraiser to benefit the Alzheimera TMs CURE Foundation.

Frank J. Williams, the retired chief justice of the state Supreme Court, launched a media blitz Thursday to squash rumors of impropriety with his former driver and explain in his words his role in the driver's family and how he became her daughter's godfather.

No. 1 seed Woonsocket will host No. 8 seed Lincoln at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Barry Field in the quarterfinal round of the Division II playoffs.

University of Rhode Island police said Monday they have arrested five students and two other suspects in connection with a break-in at the school's Fine Arts Center last month.

State Rep. Gordon Fox could become the state's first openly gay House Speaker if he succeeds William Murphy in Nov.

A hospital spokesperson said Charles McCloud was listed in good condition and is expected to be released.

During last week's special session held to complete some unfinished business, the legislature passed approximately 200 new laws.

It looks increasingly unlikely that the Station nightclub fire victims will get any settlement money from their federal lawsuits by the end of the year.

The 8th Annual Wrap A Friend Coat Giveaway will take place on Saturday October 31, 2009 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at Emanuel Lutheran Church, 9 New London Ave, West Warwick, RI.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has disbarred lawyer Todd M. Amaral for converting clients' money to his own use, lying about what he did with the money and forging a client's name to two settlement checks he received for her in connection with an employment discrimination complaint.

Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse - the Baltimore-based development firm behind some of the largest mill rehab projects in the state - has walked away from its biggest Rhode Island project, the $230-million American Locomotive Works in Providence.

Lawmakers started the year promising to fix Rhode Island's collapsing economy, which has driven unemployment to 13 percent, shuttered businesses, crushed the housing market and caused a budget deficit that grows worse daily.

A new tracking system for people with autism or Alzheimer's disease is taking hold in Rhode Island.

Governor Carcieri told a roomful of businessmen and women that his plan for extricating the state from its fiscal quagmire will focus heavily on local aid, but beyond that, "we need a game changer as far as I am concerned to be a lot more competitive than we are right now on the tax front." Speaking at the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council ...

West Warwick Police line goes automated HANNAH PIECUCH This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it WEST WARWICK - Starting next week, calls to the main West Warwick Police Station phone line will be greeted by an automated operator, says Chief.

Plans to transform the site of the Station nightclub fire that killed 100 people into a permanent memorial are moving along with a tentative timetable being set and a number of trade union members offering to do much of the work.

Though it has been months since she left her Newport law firm, Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed is still keeping her distance from the revived State House talk about asking voters to allow full-scale casino gambling at Twin River in a 2010 referendum.

The Archway 2009 World War II Veterans Honor Tour will take place Nov. 10-11 for 48 selected veterans, who will visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Archway Bus Transportation Co.