Woonsocket News

Two medical marijuana growers in Rhode Island are accused of being big-time drug dealers.

Officers from the Woonsocket and Cranston police departments arrested two brothers this week and charged them with drug offenses.

A jubilant Mayor-elect Leo Fontaine said Tuesday night his eyes will be on the financially troubled School Department almost immediately after taking the city's helm on Dec.

CVS Caremark Corp. reported Thursday that third-quarter net income rose 39% from the year-earlier period and narrowed its adjusted full-year forecast.

The Star Tribune of Minnesota reports that MinuteClinic will move its headquarters to Woonsocket, R.I., the headquarters location of CVS Caremark.

On November 2nd, 2009 at about 1:30pm Officer Joshua Smith and Officer Brien Godin were sent to 52 Hillsdale Avenue for a reported house break.

PROVIDENCE _ The City of Woonsocket violated the Access to Public Records Act when it failed to respond to a request from the local firefighters union seeking records involving the recent layoff of 11 city firefighters.

Dave Stewart wanted fire and destruction. He knew right where to go. "If you want to see houses burning, you come to Detroit on Devil's Night," said Stewart, a Needham, Mass., resident who planned his vacation so he could be on hand to photograph the blazes he knew would spring up in Detroit during October's last days.

Voters in four Rhode Island towns are heading to the polls next week. Off-year elections take place Tuesday in Central Falls, Jamestown and Woonsocket.

Rhode Island residents will vote next year whether to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name because of its association with slavery, state lawmakers decided Wednesday.

Landmark Medical Center has revised its visitor policy to protect patients from the spread of seasonal and H1N1 flu, its president announced Thursday.

Rhode Island's governors would lose their power to pick a replacement when a U.S. senator dies or leaves office unexpectedly under a bill adopted by the General Assembly.

The key to northern Rhode Island's future prosperity rests with a successful commuter rail system, said state and local officials Monday.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Corrente Former U.S. Attorney Robert C. Corrente met privately Thursday morning with officials from the newly formed Moderate Party to discuss a potential bid for governor.

Nathan Hannon reported three trips during the summer to the Newport YMCA as part of his job as education coordinator for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.

Community action agencies throughout Rhode Island are offering no-cost energy audits and free energy-conservation services such as home insulation, window and door replacement, weather stripping and caulking for low-income homeowners and renters.

The Rhode Island Department of Education has spelled out what young children need to know and be able to do to enter kindergarten - not only prerequisite skills to learn reading and math, but thinking skills such as curiosity, persistence and an ability to solve problems.

The city of Woonsocket is readying to open two new middle schools. Currently more than 1,500 students attend Woonsocket Middle School, making it the largest in New England.

Jim Hummel, who left his post as investigative reporter with ABC6 last year, has posted his first TV-on-the-web piece for his new non-profit Hummel Report .

CVS Caremark Corp. says it is launching a program for customers who reuse shopping bags, saying card members will get $1 coupons for every four times they reuse a bag.