Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Edward Marcelli, of Woonsocket, has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a check-fraud scheme in which he and other individuals used bad checks at retail stores in...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
CRANSTON -- A Woonsocket family had a little extra to celebrate this Thanksgiving: $55,479. The Bonin family won that night's Wild Money drawing, though they...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
WOONSOCKET -- An 85-year-old Cumberland woman died yesterday after she drove into a utility pole on Cass Avenue at Dana Street. Ursula Fontaine was taken...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
PROVIDENCE -- A 19-year-old Woonsocket man charged with killing a man last month during a robbery is due in court today for a bail hearing....
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Today's front page features a story on lower heating prices and testimony from the accused killer of a 3-year-old Woonsocket boy. Download a copy of...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... say Delestre and his girlfriend, Katherine Bunnell, became enraged when they returned to their Woonsocket apartment from a night out and found a mess in the living room. The allege that the two beat T.J. so badly that he suffered bruises, broken bones and head injuries so severe that his brain shifted in his skull. The child was declared brain dead and died the following day. After Bunnell...
Virtual Globetrotting: Latest Maps (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
BEV Holy Family Church [ Info ] [ GM ] [ LM ] [ YM ] By: kkeps @ 2008-11-28 12:13:47 The Holy Family parish was founded in 1902 to serve the growing French-Canadian population in Woonsocket. The church originally known as Sainte Famille reflecting its early French roots was built in 1909. The brick Romanesque style church continues to serve the active parish in the Diocese of Providence.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prosecutors say Delestre and Katherine Bunnell beat T.J. severely after they returned to their Woonsocket apartment from a night out four years ago and became enraged when they found milk and yogurt spilled on the living room rug. T.J. was declared brain dead and died the following day.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Thomas "T.J" Wright on the head, causing him to fall down 8 to 10 steps, after returning to his Woonsocket apartment and finding a mess of eggs, yogurt, milk and a bowl containing feces.He said he tried to catch the child but was unable to. Delestre then carried him upstairs to bed.Wright was later taken to the hospital and was pulled off life support the following day.© Copyright 2008 Associated...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Photo: Daniela Federici/Corbis Outline)It’s 11:30 p.m. on a freezing cold night in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, but Liza Minnelli is cozy at the 24-hour Patriot’s diner, with its retro bread ads pinned to the wall and a teenage waitress who calls everyone “hon.” Minnelli orders tea, then chicken soup to take back to her room. Her stomach is acting up, she explains to her director, and she turns...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Claudio Toca, of Woonsocket, ties a tree to the roof of his car after cutting it at the Petersen tree farm in Glocester.The Providence Journal / Glenn OsmundsonGLOCESTER — It may be the year of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.Businesses that sell natural Christmas trees and the greenery that goes along with them are keeping a watchful eye on their parking lots — and the calendar — hoping Rhode...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
is poised for a comeback. Again. Tony Cenicola/The New York TimesLiza Minnelli in Woonsocket, R.I., where she performed four shows this month in preparation for her return to Broadway. Multimedia RelatedAs she prepares a return to Broadway for the first time in almost a decade, in a new show called “Liza’s at the Palace ...,” opening Wednesday, Ms. Minnelli is looking — hallelujah! — healthy...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today the findings from a yearlong study, suggesting that influenza vaccinations can help reduce the risk of hospitalizations in patients with chronic conditions. These findings wil...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Prosecutors are expected to rest their case next week against a man charged with fatally beating his girlfriend's 3-year-old nephew.Gilbert Delestre's murder trial began last week in Providence Superior Court, with prosecutors accusing the Woonsocket man of killing Thomas "T.J" Wright in October 2004 because he was angry over a mess in the living room of his apartment.Delestre's...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... Memorial State Park, in Barrington; Beach Pond, in Exeter, World War II Memorial State Park, in Woonsocket, and two spots in Narragansett — Jerusalem, across the Point Judith breachway from Galilee, and Salty Acres, a 20-acre parcel next to Fishermen’s Memorial State Park. At Goddard Park, the golf course “has no irrigation system. It has ancient equipment,” Sullivan said in an interview...
