Pawtucket News

Police from Central Falls and Pawtucket responded to a stabbing just before 9pm Tuesday night.

Youth in four urban communities, including Pawtucket and Central Falls, will have the chance to continue learning this summer even after the final school bell rings.

Deborah A. Gist, Rhode Island's new commissioner of elementary and secondary education, is so excited about her new job that she began a day early, attending a news conference Tuesday morning to announce the launch of five summer learning programs in urban districts.

For the past four years, Major Eduardo Suarez and his wife, Capt. Keila Suarez, have been fixtures at the Salvation Army headquarters on High Street in downtown Pawtucket.

Another city eatery has earned the privilege of selling beer and wine after the City Council's recent lifting of a ban on restricted liquor licenses.

A Warwick man has been charged with robbing a Pawtucket Dunkin' Donuts by driving a motorcycle up to the drive-through window.

The Pawtucket Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to present, for the first time in Rhode Island, renowned Cape Cod musical variety series Cranberry Coast Concerts.

On a rainy Friday morning, the mood could not be dampened inside St. Paul's Church, where the Blackstone Valley Community Action Program held its commencement exercises.

Pawtucket police are searching for a man who they say robbed two fast food restaurants on a red motorcycle, the Providence Journal reported.

By TIM O'NEILL PAWTUCKET -- It's true "home is where the heart is" and for me.home is where the cart is the golf cart, that is.

The Providence police have charged an attendant who works at the Charlesgate Nursing Center at 100 Randall St.

Noting that "it has taken a long time to get to this point," Schools Superintendent Hans Dellith told the School Committee on Tuesday that in the latest analysis, Pawtucket schools showed significant improvement over previous years in meeting the state-mandated education benchmarks.

Three men accused of selling illegal cigarettes to an undercover federal agent have pleaded guilty to felony charges, but their admissions of guilt are expected to spare them any time in prison.

With many challenges behind them and more appearing on the horizon in the midst of an economic downturn, Central Falls High School graduates were encouraged by speakers at their commencement ceremony Friday evening to persevere and remember what got them as far as they had come so far.

After listening to a stream of negative comments from residents, the City Council on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to an operating budget for fiscal year 2010 that does not depend on the adoption of a controversial new trash program.

The City Council on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to an amended budget that would impose a roughly 8-percent property tax increase in the fiscal year that begins July 1, largely to close a schools deficit in the current fiscal year.

There were growing pains for teachers who remember assembling their own classroom furniture and only having part-time schedules.

It was the same old story for Pawtucket against Durham on Monday: just enough pitching, not enough offense.

Two local charter school initiatives were given the go-ahead by the state Department of Education on Thursday afternoon, paving the way for the schools to open in the fall of 2009 - assuming the needed funding is allocated.

New change will see polls close at 8pm. instead of the current close time of 9pm for State Elections.