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WOONSOCKET - Police are seeking a male suspect on a charge of first degree robbery following an armed incident allegededly involving a knife at the Shell Station on Mendon Road Saturday morning.

CUMBERLAND - Police are searching for a bank robber after an unknown male threatened a bank teller and demanded money on Monday afternoon at the Bank of America branch on Diamond Hill Road.

CUMBERLAND - The Cumberland Youth Commission made history Monday night after holding its first official public meeting in the Town Council chambers at Town Hall.

WOONSOCKET - There was a time when more than 150 church members would gather for services at the First Universalist Church at 78 Earle St.

LINCOLN --- Even before John Flynn became a Town Council member back in January, he promised those he represented in Lonsdale he would fight for repair of the district's sidewalks.

WOONSOCKET - During some standard renovations to repair a leaky roof, the Sacred Heart Church was given golden offer.

WOONSOCKET - Mayor Susan D. Menard and the City Council are heading into their new terms next week and also into a new round of sparring, this time over the mayor's use of a long standing discretionary account.

CUMBERLAND - A local man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly cut a hole in a garage roof and stole his neighbor's tools.

ATTLEBORO - A local man pulled from a burning car on Thanksgiving Day was listed in serious condition by a Rhode Island Hospital spokesperson Friday.

WOONSOCKET - A 22-year-old city man faces gun charges after he allegedly fled from police Friday afternoon while in possession of a .357-caliber handgun.

The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor was one of the first areas to receive such a designation. But as the program catches on across the country, critics raise concerns about its costs.

BELLINGHAM - Police are searching for a man responsible for a strong-arm robbery on Saturday afternoon.

As the deadline for Christmas donors approaches,
320 city families still need to be 'adopted'

WOONSOCKET - A 63-year-old homeless local man was charged with domestic simple assault and battery on his 48-year-old girlfriend Wednesday after police investigated a reported disturbance at the couple's longstanding campsite on the Blackstone River.

LINCOLN --- Thanksgiving apparently came early to eight victims of an alleged hit-and-run driver on Lonsdale Avenue at mid-morning Wednesday.

CUMBERLAND - The Youth Group and the Board of Missions at Four Corners Community Chapel, 200 Angell Road, will hold its fifth annual Homeless Sleep-Out on Saturday, and Sunday on the front lawn of the chapel.

WOONSOCKET - City Solicitor Christopher Lambert won't be serving two masters, the City Council and Mayor Susan D. Menard, for another two years.

SEEKONK - Millions of families in these United States today will pass holiday trimmings around the table while sharing stories of individual and collective triumphs, failures and foibles. Few have as many reasons to be thankful as Janice Moran.

PROVIDENCE - Abraham Lincoln may have freed the slaves, but he condemned the turkey.

WOONSOCKET - A suspect's success in smuggling a loaded handgun into a jail cell has resulted in disciplinary action against four of the five department members who had contact with her on Nov. 7.