Warwick News

Borders Group Inc. says it will close two mall-based bookstores in Southern New England as part of a nationwide effort to make the chain smaller and more profitable.

Two-time Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has sued a Rhode Island hospital over the 2006 death of his younger brother.

Winding the clock at City Hall isn't that bad - once you catch your breath. Located almost six stories up in the brick tower with a weathered copper dome, the internal works of the late 19th-century clock can only be reached by climbing up 104 steps from street level.

If all goes well, Shalom Housing in Warwick, a division of Jewish Seniors Agency, will be the home of a 100-kilowatt wind turbine, part of new federal "green" stimulus award of up to $1.5 million from the US Housing and Urban Development to retrofit the 30-year-old, 100-unit low-cost senior housing project.

Rhode Island is now the last state in the country to ban prostitution. Last Wednesday and Thursday the Rhode Island House and Senate voted respectively to close an almost 30-year loophole in the statea s law that banned prostitution outdoors, but allowed it indoors.

Warwick Police arrested two teens in connection with a shooting from last week at 8 King Street.

The U.S. Department of Labor has sued George Russell, trustee of the 401 plan for Referral Mortgage Inc., of Warwick, for failing to remit to the plan contributions and loan repayments that had been withheld from employee paychecks.

An ALDI supermarket in Warwick was robbed Wednesday, police said. It happened at about 5:20 p.m. at the ALDI store at 444 Quaker Lane.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has disbarred lawyer Todd M. Amaral for converting clients' money to his own use, lying about what he did with the money and forging a client's name to two settlement checks he received for her in connection with an employment discrimination complaint.

A 22-year-old city man is in serious condition at Rhode Island Hospital Thursday morning after the police say he was shot in the lower torso during a "house invasion"-style robbery.

DIGGING INTO THE DATA: Mayor Scott Avedisian reviews indicators of the well being of Warwick children at Tuesday's KIDS COUNT briefing sponsored by the Warwick Coalition to Prevent Child abuse.

At approximately 5:18 PM, 10/28/2009, Warwick police responded to a report of a robbery in progress at ALDI Foods, 444 Quaker Lane.

Heather Catterall, who suffocated the 76-year-old man she lived with in 2007, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison, with 20 to serve.

An arbitrator is scheduled to decide whether East Providence violated the local police union's contract by opening the search for a new chief to applicants from outside the department.

SIGNALING HIS OPINION: Paul Gibbs of Cranston displays a sign at Monday's council meeting referencing a closed RIAC meeting with Mayor Avedisian to talk about an agreement over an extended runway.

Deputy House Majority Leader Raymond J. Sullivan Jr. on Thursday admitted driving drunk last April, changing his plea mid-trial after a District Court judge cleared the way for blood-alcohol test results to be admitted as evidence.

737-9459 Known as the oldest beach stand in Rhode Island, this culinary institution is well known for its Doughboys, or fried dough, as well as their always - fresh and delicious seafood.

A Providence man turned himself in to the Warwick police -- cash in hand -- after seeing his photograph flashed on the news on a list of Rhode Island's most wanted criminals, the police said.

Police are on the lookout for a man who allegedly stole cash from a pastor's purse at the Woodbury Union Church at 58 Beach Ave.

Fresh from military service overseas, Army Sgt. William R. Buchanan marched into the offices of the Rhode Island Division of Taxation last week prepared to fight.