Warwick News

If what some Democratic state legislators are saying is the case, General Assembly leaders are prepared to tax single items of clothing selling for more than $175 but not to increase the meals and beverage tax by 2 percent as Governor Lincoln Chafee proposes.

That's the message the city intends to get out in coordination with a new program being launched by the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation the week of June 12.

MOVING ON: Mary Madden, the Trudeau Center's president and CEO for the past nine years, will step down tomorrow to pursue a master's degree at RIC.

BUDGET TIME: Tuesday evening, Mayor Scott Avedisian and School Committee Chairwoman Beth Furtado address an assembly of more than 55 during the first of three budget hearings for FY2013.

Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced today that Sherry D'Amico, 43, whose last known address is 9 Wake Robin Road, pleaded nolo contendere to DUI serious bodily injury, driving to endanger resulting in serious bodily injury, and two counts of reckless driving resulting in injury.

A state-appointed, powerful state Budget Commission, that usurps the financial authority of the mayor and City Council, gets to work in Woonsocket this week, just days after the General Assembly defeated the city's last hope for fixing its own financial challenges through a supplemental property tax.

The woman who used to administer Rhode Island's bar exams for the state Supreme Court was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with 5 to serve, on Wednesday after pleading no contest to drunken driving.

Now is not the time to give Charles Odimgbe, the CEO of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, a raise, Mayor Scott Avedisian, who chairs the RIPTA board of directors, said in a message sent to the Rhode Island General Assembly.

The following is a look at some of the calls handled by theA North Reading Police Department A from Tuesday.

News from Around The Web for May 29, 2012: The Providence Journal , " Theatre By The Sea plans expansion to Warwick ." As the headline states, Matunuck's Theatre by the Sea will be opening a second theater in Warwick, converting a Verizon Fios headquarters on Jefferson Boulevard.

In 1868, the Grand Army of the Republic established Declaration Day as a time to honor the armed forces.

A Warwick man was charged with disorderly after a standoff in the Valero Gas station at the intersection of Post Road and George Street Sunday afternoon.

"It's lean as it is," Ward 4 Councilman Joseph Solomon says of the mayor's $279.9 million budget.

The Ocean State Theatre Company, whose home is the Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck, plans to open a second theater in Warwick.

BIRTHDAY GIRL: Dorothy Davidson LaPointe is surrounded by four generations of her family at Twin Oaks on Saturday as they celebrate the Warwick resident's 95th birthday, which was actually Mother's Day, May 13.

It also ranks first in student-loan debt, and now the winner of the state's Republican presidential primary is seizing on that fact to argue that President Barack Obama has let down students.

Nearly two dozen local pension plans are less than 60 percent funded and are considered in "critical status," according to the latest experience studies and actuarial valuations required by state law.

WARWICK, R.I -- The Warwick police department was involved in a standoff at a Valero gas station on Post Road Sunday afternoon.

New Hampshire isn't just first in the nation when it comes to hosting presidential primaries.

An African-American Civil War veteran was honored on Saturday, May 26, in Coventry, with a ceremony unveiling a new headstone at Greenwood Cemetery.