Westerly News

The celebrations continue Monday in Westerly, with a free concert and even more fireworks.

Throughout the entire region Wednesday, some places saw one, or two, or three inches of rain in one day.

Richard Mende had no problem keeping pace with his daughters in a bicycle ride that spanned 150 miles over two days.

When Gabrielle Mee died in May 2008 on the Greenville, R.I., campus of the Legionaries of Christ, her caregivers mourned the loss of the order's "grandmother." Leaders of the secretive Roman Catholic order rushed from Connecticut and New York to pay their final respects.

Donald Smith of Westerly was found hanging in his cell in the Intake Service Center around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday.

Visitors always provoke curiosity from the resident alpacas at Shadow Pines Farm in Exeter; a plane in the style of an F-4 Blue Angel is being made to look bluer at Quonset Air Museum in North Kingstown; and Champlin's mouth-watering crabcakes in busy fishing port Point Judith.

The Woonsocket Police arrested a convicted sex offender Sunday on a warrant from Westerly for failure to register as a sex offender.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Projo.com photo by Pamela Reinsel Cotter A juvenile fisher cat hides in a North Kingstown tree Sunday, part of a litter of 3 with its mother that roamed the Quidnessett neighborhood.

President Barack Obama is being immortalized in beads. Fourth-grade students from around the country used small plastic beads to create a giant photo of the president.

A Westerly man was taken by Life Star helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital after he hit a deer on Laurel St.

Democratic Party fundraiser Mark S. Weiner and his wife, L. Susan Weiner, of East Greenwich, have sued Carnegie Tower Development Co.

Firefighters are still on the scene of a fire in Westerly that broke out between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Monday.

The two "bounty hunters" who tangled with 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 state Attorney General's Office said Thursday.

Heather Wardwell, Latin teacher at East Greenwich High School, takes the phrase "carpe diem" seriously.

Two police officers who were checking out two men sitting on a bench in Burnside Park downtown say that they discovered them snorting heroin.

A number of witnesses testified that they saw former Charlestown Town Council President James M. Mageau slap a video camera held by a critic of the official, as testimony concluded Wednesday in the simple assault trial stemming from a 2008 incident.

Personal protection is the first line of defense against mosquito-borne diseases, the state Department of Environmental Management and the Department of Health said Monday.

Dear Tim -- I have to have a window seat. I've searched everywhere and can't find any kits, so I'm beginning to believe I'll end up with a custom window seat for my family room.

Some Powerball-playing Rhode Islanders might feel like bridesmaids, not brides, Thursday morning after the $232.1 million Powerball jackpot was hit in South Dakota Wednesday night.

So what'chall do for the weekend.. Topic started by stuka on May 26, 2009 12:49:41 pm I used my starwood points to stay at the St Regis in San Francisco.