Smithfield News

The police say crash happened at 8:30pm Wednesday night at the intersection with old county road.

A Town Council proposal to expand the governing board of the Johnston Housing Authority from five members to seven has hit a roadblock in the General Assembly , where a key lawmaker says it appears the move is meant to "target someone" in a political squabble.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day In fact, fireworks fanatics who are willing to travel might catch two or three shows.

Owners of businesses located near the Fidelity campus in Smithfield welcomed news that Fidelity Investments planned to add 500 jobs in the area.

Fidelity Investments will add more than 500 jobs to its Smithfield workforce starting early next year.

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 at the Adult Correctional Insitutions without bail 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 Rhode Island House Finance Committee budget unveiled last week slashed $1.5 million for two new charter schools in Central Falls and Cumberland, both of which would serve minority students.

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.

Watch out for deer ticks -- their population is up sharply, according to preliminary results from the University of Rhode Island's statewide Tick Encounter Risk Survey .

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 Department of Veterans Affairs, which now has nearly 8 million veterans enrolled in its health-care system, is poised to welcome nearly 266,000 more veterans into its medical centers and clinics.

The Providence VA Medical Center will hold a 60th-anniversary celebration on Thursday, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the main hospital building's 5th-floor auditorium which will include the 2009 VA Lincoln Bicentennial traveling exhibition, "Lincoln's Legacy at VA." Retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice and Lincoln scholar Frank J.

Still a good 45-60 minutes from the actual reception of his diploma, Miguel Trejo, an 18-year-old from Central Falls, stood by a stairway railing overlooking the decorated Vincent A. Cullen Field House and just blurted out: "I really can't believe it's over.

A new poll of Rhode Islanders' attitudes toward same-sex marriage drew markedly different responses than a different poll taken two weeks ago, finding a 43-36 percent plurality opposed to homosexual unions.

The Providence Journal Company has awarded $60,000 in scholarships to five graduating high school seniors who are children of company employees.

Rhode Island State Police say a fifth teenager was in the car that crashed on Interstate 295 earlier this week, killing two occupants and seriously injuring the driver.

From the looks of the parking lot, attendees at Thursday's Financial Town Meeting could tell it was going to be a thin crowd.

Rhode Island State Police are investigating a double-fatal accident that occurred early Wednesday morning.