Warwick Fire Chief Kevin Sullivan and state Fire Marshal John E. Chartier will hold a news conference Monday afternoon at 4 at fire department headquarters, 111 Veterans Memorial Drive, to provide an update on the investigation into the fire Saturday that killed five people on Buttonwoods Avenue .

Neighbors of the house where a fire killed five young people Saturday morning, including a 7-month-old baby, described a brutal and emotional scene in its aftermath, as firefighters carried bodies from the building and the sole survivor stood, shoeless, on the lawn watching the stretchers pass until his knees buckled.

Share + Feb 7, 2010 1:12 pm US/Eastern WARWICK, R.I. The fifth victim in Saturday's deadly house fire in Warwick, Rhode Island has been identified.

A house fire in Warwick, R.I., has left five people dead, including a 7-month-old baby.

The town opened a brand-new middle school in the fall of 2008, and with the new building came some new ideas about what sixth, seventh and eighth graders could really achieve, how hard their teachers should push them and how much learning could happen in a school year.

Rhode Island students are not improving fast enough in reading and math and at this pace will not reach the ambitious goals set by state Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist .

North Central State Airport should institute a voluntary curfew that would keep pilots from taking off or landing during hours that are likely to disturb the surrounding population, airport officials were told last week.

Taylor R. Logan, 19, of 23 Larch Road., was charged Monday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and traveling too fast.

We lunched at Bob & Timmy's Wood Grilled Pizza in North Smithfield, RI today. Had the award-winning thin crust grilled pizza with spinach, garlic, mushrooms & feta.

"I get these bras and I just cry," says Jennifer Jolicoeur, president of Woonsocket-based Athena's Home Novelties, explaining that some of the bras she receives are inscribed with personal experiences of breast cancer.

Mason Boltrushek, 17, and his girlfriend Katie O'Connor. Courtesy of Katie O'Connor BURRILLVILLE - Katie O'Connor and Mason Boltrushek spent Saturday morning at his house catching up on recorded episodes of the television series "Smallville." Katie made cinnamon buns for her boyfriend.

A 17-year-old senior at Burrillville High School died Saturday afternoon after losing control of his car on Route 102, according to the police.

The area around East Harkness Road is on a rabies watch after a rabid fox was found in the area, Animal Control Officer Scott Goodwin announced.

Two area residents were killed in car accidents the day before Christmas. A 23-year old Millbury woman was killed in a one-car accident early Thursday morning in Lincoln, R.I., near the North Smithfield town line, Rhode Island State Police said.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Roads in Providence are still slick Monday morning, Providence fire crews will be back out Monday shoveling fire hydrants out from under the snow and many schoolchildren around the state get another day to ...

A civil liberties group is challenging a North Smithfield school system policy that charges students a fee to play sports.

Predictions of a foot or more of snow smothering Rhode Island by Sunday morning have led more than 50 churches to cancel services, forced parking bans in all but three communities - some slated to last for much of the day - and dropped the curtain on several schools' weekend theater productions.

North Smithfield Police are investigating after a man was run over by a tractor trailer on Monday.

A man who slipped and fell into the frigid waters of the basin at Waterplace Park and nearly drowned Tuesday evening is lucky to be alive, thanks to three men who came from different directions to help rescue him.

Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts says that a break-in Sunday at her Edgewood home was unrelated to her state position.