Woonsocket News

Local resident Jennifer Mace didn't know a year-and-a-half ago when she became involved with Athena's Home Novelties, that she could be part of an attempt to both gain a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, but also helping to cure breast cancer.

Forget those gift cards burning a hole in your pocket and catch some good shows around to close out '09. Big-time blues abounds on SATURDAY with SUGAR RAY & THE BLUETONES at the Knickerbocker in Westerly, while ROOMFUL OF BLUES blow out two sets at Chan's in Woonsocket .

CVS Caremark has increased its ownership interest in Generation Health, a genetic benefit management company, and named the firm's president and CEO to lead CVS Caremark's pharmacy benefit management business.

Some education and union officials are warning that Governor Carcieri 's proposed midyear cuts to public schools will have a "devastating impact," particularly on struggling urban districts that will see the deepest cuts.

A Rhode Island police officer has been charged with assaulting a woman after she was taken out of a slot parlor for being disorderly, authorities said Friday.Officer Edward Krawetz has been suspended without pay and faces administrative charges as well, Lincoln police Capt.

WOONSOCKET,A R.I. CVS Caremark has confirmed that it is closing its specialty pharmacy operations in Rockville, Md., on March 26, 2010; a move that will impact nearly 100 employees.

A Woonsocket man is accused of committing five breaks and trying for a sixth over a short amount of time.

A smokey fire in Woonsocket has left five families homeless. Deputy Chief Marcel Bacon told NBC10 the fire at 86 Pine Street began in the basement of the six apartment complex at 3:15 Sunday afternoon.

Johnston writer-director Panos Trikoulis' made-in-Rhode-Island film "The Mailbox Fairy" will have its world premiere Sunday at Cranston's refurbished Park Theatre, 848 Park Ave.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Friday upheld the second-degree murder conviction of Pedro Muriel Reyes, found guilty in 2002 of killing Angel Martinez, a 19-year-old Woonsocket man.

WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in Providence, R.I., has indicted an officer with the Woonsocket Police Department, charging him with violating the civil rights of a 16 year-old juvenile by physically assaulting him, as well as obstruction of justice.

The FBI says it has arrested a police officer from Rhode Island. FBI spokesman Michael McNamara on Thursday says the officer is from Woonsocket.

" The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded an emergency grant of $450,000 to three statewide community organizations in response to "these unusually stressful economic times," Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of the foundation, said Tuesday.

Police have charged a 13-year-old Woonsocket Middle School girl with first-degree arson in connection with a fire in a girls' bathroom last week that forced an evacuation.

Woonsocket, RI . . . Parkinson Technologies has introduced a new digital tension control unit, the Model 81, which is offered as a replacement for original units on DusenberyA slitter/rewinders. The Model 81 replaces older DusenberyA tension control units , including the Model 61 and Model 71 unwind controls, and DEL Slowdown rewind controls.

All Division of Motor Vehicles offices will be closed to the public on Wednesdays, starting Dec.

The police are searching for a third suspect involved in the armed robbery last Friday of a Taco Bell restaurant at 1500 Diamond Hill Rd.

The Providence location of today's coat exchange has been changed because of the weather.

Connecticut's attorney general has sued CVS Caremark Corp, accusing the drugstore chain of selling food, beverages and over-the-counter medications past their expiration dates.

Connecticut officials are suing CVS/Pharmacy Inc., alleging it has sold food and over-the-counter medications past their expiration dates at many of its Connecticut stores.