WARWICK, R.I. -- A Scituate driver who was arrested earlier this week on a 19th charge of driving on a suspended license, and who was ordered held without bail because he was considered to have violated the terms of bail imposed last month for his 18th alleged offense, is due [...]
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 [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- An Oakland Beach man was arrested Thursday for allegedly dealing marijuana out of his home.
Juan J. Scott, 23, tried to flush a pound of marijuana down the toilet, as detectives with a search warrant came into his rental home at 723 Oakland Beach Ave., said Capt. Sean [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A local 17-year-old boy is accused of robbing the Coastway Community Bank branch at 2089 Warwick Ave. late Thursday morning.
Capt. Sean Collins said the boy had cut school that day and walked into the bank with a note for the teller. The handwritten note, riddled with misspelled [...]
Rhode Island commuters Friday morning are dealing with heavy rain and flooding conditions around the state.
In Providence, large puddles on Allens Avenue and in the downtown area have slowed traffic.
In Warwick, drivers are plowing through large puddles on Post Road, south of Centerville Road (Apponaug Four Corners), and also [...]
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 [...]
As the intermodal station at T.F. Green rapidly works towards completion, expecting trains to arrive next year, it is already spurring development in the area in anticipation.
Michael D’Ambra currently owns an asphalt plant adjacent to the train station which he plans to turn [...]
The Rhode Island Tea Party, attempting to move from protest vehicle to political force, has scheduled an open meeting November 24 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Warwick Public Library.
As I wrote in a cover story in the Phoenix a few weeks back, part of the challenge for the movement [...]
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 [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- An ambitious plan to build a hotel, parking garage and complex of buildings that will combine office and retail space on Jefferson Boulevard received final approval from the city Wednesday night.
The proposal, which is the vision of contractor Michael D'Ambra, got the green light from the' [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- With next week's Thanksgiving holiday prompting a surge in air travel, T.F. Green Airport is offering tips to make getting through the airport easier and less stressful.
Airlines report higher than normal passenger volume will begin Tuesday and carry through to the following Sunday. During that period, [...]
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 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 [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
Most of the Interscholastic League football schedule for tonight -- and tomorrow -- have been postponed because of the storm in the area.
Here are the games that are still on for tonight:
West Warwick at South Kingstown, 6:30 p.m. (Division II playoff)
Cranston East at Mt. Hope, 7 p.m. [...]
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' [...]
This is a story The Providence Journal is watching today
WARWICK, R.I. -- Testimony was scheduled to resume this morning in the actor James Woods' Superior Court lawsuit claiming his brother Michael died in July 2006 because of negligence on the part of Kent Hospital.
Michael J. Woods, 49, local businessman, two-time' [...]
WARWICK, RI -- School Committee members heard some encouraging numbers Tuesday when it comes to tracking the health of the district during this flu season.
Richard D'Agostino, director of special services, told school board members that absenteeism has dropped in the past week while participation in state-run school vaccination' [...]
WARWICK , RI -- The holidays and New Englanders' hankering for warmer weather are two reasons that T.F. Green Airport will see a slight increase in airline service over the next few months.
Airport officials announced this week that U.S. Airways is increases its daily departures to' [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- A local man has been indicted by grand jury on charges of assault on a child and kidnapping with intent to molest the child, according to the state attorney general's office.
Richard D. Marold, 54, of 251 Long St., in Warwick was charged with kidnapping a minor under [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A West Warwick man convicted in September of slaying a neighbor over a debt was sentenced to life in prison, the attorney general's office announced.
Robert Payette, 47, formerly of 19 Maple Ave. in West Warwick, will have to serve 20 years before he is eligible' [...]
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 [...]
These are stories The Providence Journal is watching today.
Opening statements are expected today in Kent County Superior Court in a suit brought against Kent Hospital in connection with the death in 2006 of Michael Woods, a two-time Warwick mayoral candidate and brother of actor James Woods.
James Woods, executor [...]
WARWICK, R.I. -- District Court Judge Frank J. Cenerini on Friday ordered Michael J. Patino, 27, accused of fatally injuring 6-year-old Marco Nieves of Cranston, held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions pending trial, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch said in a news release.
Marco died of an internal [...]
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Two-time Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has sued Kent Hospital in Warwick over the 2006 death of his younger brother.
Woods on Friday declined to discuss the lawsuit in detail, but told The Associated Press he wants "justice" for his brother, Michael, who was 49 when he [...]
