By Phil Marcelo and Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Luis Mendonca, the Pawtucket man who is accusing a Providence police officer of brutality during his arrest two months ago, was found guilty of violating the terms of his probation on previous charges and sentenced to 90 days in [...]
By Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writer
To "double charge" or not to double charge -- that was the question in Warwick early Thanksgiving morning when veteran federal prosecutor Gerard B. Sullivan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
When a person is arrested and suspected of DUI and [...]
By Kate Bramson and Donita Naylor
Journal Staff Writers
WARWICK, R.I. -- Gerard B. Sullivan, an assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Rhode Island, pleaded not guilty Friday to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving in District Court, Warwick.
Sullivan, 50, of Lincoln, was released on personal recognizance pending a Dec. [...]
By Michael P. McKinney
Journal staff writer
LINCOLN, R.I. -- The School Committee voted Thursday night to close the Fairlawn Early Learning Center elementary school, hours after the superindendent said a new round of projected state-aid cuts have forced her to drop a proposal for districtwide full-day kindergarten.
By Michael P. McKinney
Journal Staff Writer
LINCOLN, R.I. -- Lincoln school officials are abandoning a proposal to extend kindergarten instruction to full-day after learning the state is projecting to cut state aid to the district.
However, the district will move forward with plans to reconfigure elementary schools under a "neighborhood" [...]
By Mark Reynolds
Journal staff writer
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor Charles M. Lombardi surprised the local firefighters union Wednesday morning by shutting down the Douglas Avenue Fire Station in Geneva 24 hours sooner than fire fighters had expected.
By mid-afternoon, the union was in Superior Court seeking an injunction to [...]
By Peter B. Lord
Journal Staff Writer
Many scientists worry that Royal Bengal tigers could become extinct in the wild in 20 years because their numbers have become so depleted by human development. But an expert told several hundred people at the University of Rhode Island Tuesday night there is [...]
By Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A veteran federal prosecutor was charged early Thanksgiving morning with refusing to take a chemical breath test after two drivers told the police a man at the wheel of a small BMW appeared "out of it," was "driving all" [...]
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal staff writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson on Tuesday sailed through the first leg of her confirmation as a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge. Not a single Republican member attended her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, indicating to Democratic supporters [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A cardiac specialist called to testify by Kent Hospital in a negligence lawsuit told a jury Monday morning that Dr. Kelli Naylor "practiced well above the standard of care for this gentleman" while she was treating Michael J. Woods for what became [...]
By Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writer
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- The police are searching through missing persons reports to identify a man whose body was found Sunday wrapped in a rug and left in a vacant lot.
Police Chief Michael P. Gould Sr. said a woman who lives in the area found [...]
By Neil Downing
Journal staff writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Journal Co. is studying the possibility of charging a fee for a portion of the news and information it currently provides at no charge on its Web site, projo.com.
Howard G. Sutton, The Journal Co.'s chairman, publisher, president and chief [...]
By Talia Buford
Journal staff writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- In an abbreviated day of testimony, jurors heard again from a medical consultant who said that Michael Woods' death was "definitely preventable" had he been given treatment immediately.
Woods died on July 26, 2006, from a heart attack he' [...]
By Eric Tucker, Associated Press
and Tracy Breton, Journal staff writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- Children under 18 who lost a parent in a deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire should receive an average gross award of $202,000 as their shares of a $176 million settlement, according to a report submitted in [...]
By Talia Buford
Journal staff writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- The Kent Hospital charge nurse responsible for the emergency room when Michael J. Woods came in testified in Kent County Superior Court Tuesday that she had not looked at his chart nor knew his condition when she decided to move him out [...]
By Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writer
REHOBOTH, Mass. -- Lyndsey Medeiros knows she's asking a lot with her craigslist posting seeking money to help pay for cataract surgery for Jerry the Turkey -- particularly this week, as most people are preparing to eat a pretty large turkey meal on Thursday.
By Michael McKinney
Journal staff writer
CRANSTON, R.I -- Rebecca Bowman, who was 13 when she lost her mother and her best friend, said a drunk driver "took away what I was."
She and the police on Monday hailed a new law that the governor is expected to sign on Wednesday.
Bowman, of [...]
By Talia Buford
Journal Staff Writer
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The injuries that ultimately killed six-week-old Naiomi McCoy earlier this year could not have been caused by a simple fall, a state medical examiner testified Friday morning.
Dr. Alexander Chirkov testified in the second day of evidence in a [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- The fiancée of the late Michael Woods testified in Kent County Superior Court Friday that she had no recollection of any Kent Hospital doctors examining Woods during the first hour of his arriving at the hospital emergency room the day he died.
Lisa [...]
By Michael McKinney
and Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writers
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Graffiti involving a bomb threat, discovered this week in two bathrooms at Cumberland High School, put the school district on high alert.
But there were no problems reported Friday as staff at a table checkpoint searched high school students, who [...]
By Tatiana Pina and Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writers
WARWICK, R.I. -- Hours after a fatal crash in Cranston that killed one of his friends from the University of Rhode Island, the 19-year-old man driving the car was charged with drunk driving.
Sonny Pham, of 22 Hartwell Drive, Foxboro, bowed his head [...]
By Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writer
and The Associated Press
WARWICK, R.I. -- The air traffic equipment failure that has delayed flights around the country is also expected to cause some delays at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick.
Green officials on Thursday afternoon said that weather elsewhere in the country [...]
By Kate Bramson and Tom Mooney
Journal staff writers
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- The family of the Barrington man serving as captain of the Maersk Alabama was relieved to learn Wednesday that Paul M. Rochford is safe after an attack on the ship earlier in the day by Somali pirates.
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A lawyer for Kent Hospital and a doctor hired by the family of Michael J. Woods clashed during testimony Wednesday afternoon during testimony in the family's civil lawsuit charging the hospital with negligence in Wood's 2006 death.
The doctor, Dr. John Schriver, chief [...]
By Philip Marcelo and Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city approved an entertainment and alcohol license for a Brown University dance on Friday sponsored by a student arts association, after Police Chief Dean M. Esserman backed away from his opposition to the event.
Police Lt. John Ryan, who [...]
This April 22, 2009, AP file photo shows the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama, leaving the Port of Mombasa, Kenya.
By Kate Bramson
Journal staff writer
A Barrington man was serving as captain of the Maersk Alabama early Wednesday when Somali pirates attacked the ship for the second [...]
By Tatiana Pina, Maria Armental and Donita Naylor
Journal Staff Writers
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Karl Pernsley and Alethia Gibson seemed like a happy couple, pleased to move into a bigger apartment three weeks ago. Donna Baxter, their upstairs neighbor at 267 High St., said Tuesday that they appeared [...]
Journal photo
The annual Scandalous party was held at Brown University's Alumnae Hall.
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Scandalous, indeed.
A sorority party with that name drew hundreds of young people to Brown University Saturday night, ending with fights, police' [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- The doctor who treated Michael Woods on July 26, 2006, the day he died in the Kent Hospital emergency room, continued her testimony Tuesday afternoon about the treatment Woods received at the hospital that day.
Earlier Tuesday, Dr. Kelli A. Naylor had testified [...]
