By Talia Buford
Journal Staff Writer
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The injuries that ultimately killed six-week-old Naiomi McCoy earlier this year could not have been caused by a simple fall, a state medical examiner testified Friday morning.
Dr. Alexander Chirkov testified in the second day of evidence in a [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- The fiancée of the late Michael Woods testified in Kent County Superior Court Friday that she had no recollection of any Kent Hospital doctors examining Woods during the first hour of his arriving at the hospital emergency room the day he died.
Lisa [...]
By Michael McKinney
and Maria Armental
Journal Staff Writers
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Graffiti involving a bomb threat, discovered this week in two bathrooms at Cumberland High School, put the school district on high alert.
But there were no problems reported Friday as staff at a table checkpoint searched high school students, who [...]
By Tatiana Pina and Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writers
WARWICK, R.I. -- Hours after a fatal crash in Cranston that killed one of his friends from the University of Rhode Island, the 19-year-old man driving the car was charged with drunk driving.
Sonny Pham, of 22 Hartwell Drive, Foxboro, bowed his head [...]
By Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writer
and The Associated Press
WARWICK, R.I. -- The air traffic equipment failure that has delayed flights around the country is also expected to cause some delays at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick.
Green officials on Thursday afternoon said that weather elsewhere in the country [...]
By Kate Bramson and Tom Mooney
Journal staff writers
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- The family of the Barrington man serving as captain of the Maersk Alabama was relieved to learn Wednesday that Paul M. Rochford is safe after an attack on the ship earlier in the day by Somali pirates.
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A lawyer for Kent Hospital and a doctor hired by the family of Michael J. Woods clashed during testimony Wednesday afternoon during testimony in the family's civil lawsuit charging the hospital with negligence in Wood's 2006 death.
The doctor, Dr. John Schriver, chief [...]
By Philip Marcelo and Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city approved an entertainment and alcohol license for a Brown University dance on Friday sponsored by a student arts association, after Police Chief Dean M. Esserman backed away from his opposition to the event.
Police Lt. John Ryan, who [...]
This April 22, 2009, AP file photo shows the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama, leaving the Port of Mombasa, Kenya.
By Kate Bramson
Journal staff writer
A Barrington man was serving as captain of the Maersk Alabama early Wednesday when Somali pirates attacked the ship for the second [...]
By Tatiana Pina, Maria Armental and Donita Naylor
Journal Staff Writers
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Karl Pernsley and Alethia Gibson seemed like a happy couple, pleased to move into a bigger apartment three weeks ago. Donna Baxter, their upstairs neighbor at 267 High St., said Tuesday that they appeared [...]
Journal photo
The annual Scandalous party was held at Brown University's Alumnae Hall.
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Scandalous, indeed.
A sorority party with that name drew hundreds of young people to Brown University Saturday night, ending with fights, police' [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- The doctor who treated Michael Woods on July 26, 2006, the day he died in the Kent Hospital emergency room, continued her testimony Tuesday afternoon about the treatment Woods received at the hospital that day.
Earlier Tuesday, Dr. Kelli A. Naylor had testified [...]
Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Alyssa Maggiacomo and Gianna Lanni, first-grade students at Immaculate Conception Catholic Regional School, Cranston, check out their new classroom. Monday was the opening day for the newly built school on Garden Hills Drive.
By LINDA BORG
Journal staff writer
CRANSTON, [...]
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A felon from Massachusetts accused of trying to shoot an undercover detective during a sting -- injuring himself instead -- was ordered held Monday afternoon on $200,000 bail with surety.
The line of stitches from the gunshot wound were visible along the left [...]
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A cardiac specialist brought in by the family of Michael J. Woods told a Kent County jury Monday that if Kent Hospital's emergency room doctors had met the accepted standard of care expected of them, Woods most likely would not have died' [...]
Journal photo/ Frieda Squires
Providence Police Detective Lt. Paul Campbell, second from the right, stands with neighbors, friends and relatives of a young man who was shot Monday morning on Camp Street.
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A young man was shot and [...]
By W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal staff writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- A registered nurse testified Friday that Michael Woods was resistant to receiving medication at Kent Hospital about two hours before he suffered a fatal heart attack on July 26, 2006.
Jessica Parker, a veteran nurse at Kent, South County and Newport [...]
By Paul Grimaldi
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A U.S. trustee is objecting to the settlement agreement between the holding company that operates the Twin River slot parlor and the greyhound owners association that provides dogs for racing in Lincoln.
The agreement announced in October ends Rhode Island Greyhound Owners Association's' [...]
By John Hill
Journal staff writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- Michael J. Woods was sweating profusely and told a nurse he suffered from anxiety attacks, the nurse testified in Superior Court just before Thursday's lunch break.
Woods died of a blocked coronary artery in the emergency room on July 26, 2006. His' [...]
By Tom Mooney and W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff Writers
Frank J. Williams, the retired chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, launched a media blitz Thursday to squash rumors of impropriety with his former driver and explain in his words his role in the driver's family and how he' [...]
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former director of the Laborers' New England Region Organizing Fund who pleaded guilty to an unlawful payment scheme was sentenced Thursday to three years probation barring him from holding any position within or affiliated with a labor organization.
By Katie Mulvaney
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former director of the Laborers' New England Region Organizing Fund who pleaded guilty to an unlawful payment scheme was sentenced Thursday to three years probation barring him from holding any position within or affiliated with a labor organization.
By Karen Lee Ziner
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy says he finds it "very disconcerting" that Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin will not agree to keep private a discussion about Kennedy's faith.
Talking with reporters Tuesday in response to an open letter to Kennedy published [...]
By John Hill
Journal staff writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- Afternoon testimony in actor James Woods' lawsuit against Kent Hospital in connection to his brother's July 2006 death resumed with Woods' family lawyer Mark B. Decof calling triage nurse Mary Almeida to the stand.
Almeida was the first nurse to see' [...]
AP Photo/ Stew Milne
Actor James Woods listens to motions prior to opening statements in his lawsuit against Kent Hospital at Kent County Superior Court in Warwick, R.I.
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer
WARWICK, R.I. -- Lawyers for both sides made their opening arguments Monday in [...]
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence police are continuing their investigation into the shooting of a 13-year-old boy Sunday morning.
Police officers swarmed throughout the Upper South Providence neighborhood Sunday after the boy, hanging out with friends on Somerset Street, was shot without warning [...]
By Amanda Milkovits
Journal Staff Writer
The Providence police have released the identity of
a 26-year-old Providence man who was shot death early Friday morning outside Club Platinum in the Washington Park neighborhood.
Henry Vargas, of 18 Burnside Street, and another person had an argument inside the club that night, [...]
Peter Lord
Journal Staff Writer
CRANSTON - A 22-foot sailboat with four people aboard overturned in the Providence River early Sunday afternoon but fortunately, the warm sunny weather caused several boaters to be on the water at the same time and they rushed to help.
The Coast Guard launched a [...]
By Mike Stanton
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE -- Police are investigating the Sunday morning shooting of a 13-year-old male on Somerset Street in South Providence.
The youth was in stable condition at Hasbro Children's Hospital and talking to the police, according to Detective Capt. James Desmarais.
The victim, who was not identified, was [...]
By Mike Stanton
Journal Staff Writer
NORTH PROVIDENCE -- When a stranger chatted up a 19-year-old woman on the street in Centredale Saturday, the police say, he mentioned that he was from South Carolina.
Several hours later, after the man allegedly put a knife to the woman's throat, dragged her behind [...]
