North Smithfield News

A North Smithfield man charged with multiple counts of child molestation in three different communities was held without bail Friday in Providence District Court.

Despite optimistic projections a month ago, Landmark Medical Center has not yet reached agreement with a potential partner to acquire the financially troubled Woonsocket hospital.

She was never officially in, but now Democrat Elizabeth Roberts is officially out of the 2010 campaign for governor.

A North Smithfield man is being held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions on multiple counts of child molestation.

An East Providence man died of "multiple blunt injuries of torso and extremities" when his motorcycle crashed Friday on Route 146A in North Smithfield, the state medical examiner's office said Monday.

The state Supreme Court has upheld a Superior Court decision denying a former state chemist his "classified employee" status for state retirement benefits.

The North Smithfield Police Department responded Friday to a single vehicle motorcycle crash on Eddie Dowling Highway northbound near the entrance of the Family Fun Center.

A serious crash was reported Friday morning in North Smithfield. A motorcycle appeared to be involved in the 7:30 a.m. crash where Route 146 north splits from Route 146A.

The Rhode Island State Police assisted the North Smithfield police with traffic control Friday morning as the local department responded to a serious motorcycle accident on Route 146A North, State Police Lt.

A Rhode Island man who worked as a security supervisor in Massachusetts was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on charges he schemed to collect more than $15,000 in unemployment benefits while continuing to work.

The National Utility Contractors announced in a news release this week that the Utility Contractors Association of Rhode Island, or UCARI, has been awarded the association's 2008 NUCA Chapter Award of Excellence for Web site.

CHICAGO, June 10 NEF-housing-project CHICAGO , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Rhode Island affordable housing development designed to meet the needs of low-income seniors in and around North Smithfield has been recognized as one of the top projects in the country.

After months of discussion about how to pay down a current-year budget deficit of about $10 million, the Town Council has decided to ignore the problem for now to limit a property tax rate hike.

A life-size statue of a Great Dane sits near the top of a hill, next to a long driveway linking Greenville Road in North Smithfield to the neo-Victorian-style house above.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday will hear a bill that would extend by one year the governor's ability to select state judicial nominees from lists of finalists created over the past five years.

PROVIDENCE _ David J. Cartagena, a senior street worker for the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence had put his troubled past behind him.

A house off Pond House Road sports three levels of living and a farmer's porch. The Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez North Smithfield High School and the town's new $30-million middle school and athletic fields are in a complex at the center of the town's rural Primrose neighborhood - where Routes 5 and 104 meet.

Smith Hill's money problems have begun to affect the harbors of Block Island, the libraries of South Kingstown and the streets of Tiverton.

In the midst of hard economic times, a trip to a Woodlawn store appears to have made a millionaire out of one person - though he or she has yet to reap the reward.

Three local businesses will receive $420,000 worth of loans from the R.I. Economic Development Corporation's Small Business Loan Fund, the agency said yesterday.