Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
PROVIDENCE -- A Providence man charged with murdering a 71-year-old Woonsocket man this month is due back in court today for a bail hearing. Santiago...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
PROVIDENCE -- After a second trial, a 20-year-old Woonsocket man has been convicted of molesting a 4-year-old girl in 2005. Miguel A. Navarro, whose last...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
DELESTREPROVIDENCE — In a videotaped statement given to a Woonsocket police sergeant, Gilbert Delestre, who is on trial for beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew to death, said he backhanded the boy and he tumbled down the staircase of the Woonsocket apartment the couple shared. “He fell backwards, like he did a flip,” Delestre told Todd Brien, then a detective sergeant with the...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
PROVIDENCE -- The murder trial of Gilbert Delestre, who is accused of beating to death 3-year-old Thomas J. Wright in Woonsocket four years ago, began...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
PROVIDENCE -- The state Department of Environmental Management is asking a state committee for permission to begin seeking proposals for new "public-private'' activities at Haines Park in Barrington, Salty Acres in Narragansett, World War II Memorial Park in Woonsocket, Beach Pond in Exeter, Goddard State Park golf course in Warwick and Jerusalem in Narragansett.The proposal will be considered...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stop & Shop officials will present the turkeys Saturday at 1 p.m. at its Pawtucket Super Stop & Shop, , to staff and volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs in Cumberland-Lincoln, East Providence, Newport, Pawtucket, Providence, Warwick, and Woonsocket.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Independent Panel Recognizes Newly Launched Web Site WOONSOCKET, R.I., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS.com, the Internet consumer home page for CVS/pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Caremark (NYSE:...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... J. Wright to death — said Delestre hit the boy, causing him to fall down the staircase of their Woonsocket apartment, but he did not intend to kill him. Delestre, 25, tried to catch the child as he tumbled down the stairs but was unable to and “he went down hard” and was badly injured, lawyer Robert Mann told the jury yesterday during opening statements in the murder trial at Superior Court.Delestre...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Nov. 19/PRNewswire/ -- CVS/pharmacy, America's largest retail pharmacy, today unveiled a week-long holiday promotion offering shoppers a wide variety of doorbuster deals before "Black Friday" on high-quality gifts, affordable electronics, seasonal decor items and daily essentials. From Sunday, November 23 through Saturday, November 29, CVS/pharmacy customers can use their ExtraCare...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... the child's aunt, fatally beat the boy because they were angry with him for making a mess in their Woonsocket apartment. Wright and his siblings were living with the couple because their mother was imprisoned.After the killing, a panel said Wright should never have been permitted to live with the defendants because they had criminal records and were already raising two children.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Prosecutors say that Delestre and his beat her nephew, Thomas, to death four years ago after they returned to their Woonsocket apartment from a night out and found yogurt and milk he had spilled on the living room floor. Delestre and Bunnell were caring for Thomas and his two brothers in addition to their own two children while Bunnell's sister, Karen Wright, served a prison term in Illinois...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... the child's aunt, fatally beat the boy because they were angry with him for making a mess in their Woonsocket apartment.Delestre's girlfriend, Katherine Bunnell, was convicted in May of second-degree murder and sentenced to life with parole.Wright and his siblings were living with the couple while their mother, Bunnell's sister, was in prison out of state.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... Thomas "T.J." Wright, Bunnell's nephew, after the couple returned home and found a mess in their Woonsocket apartment.Wright and his siblings were living with the couple because their mother was in prison.Bunnell was convicted of second-degree murder in May. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.© Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... Thomas "T.J." Wright, Bunnell's nephew, after the couple returned home and found a mess in their Woonsocket apartment.Wright and his siblings were living with the couple because their mother was in prison.Bunnell was convicted of second-degree murder in May and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.Superior Court Judge Netti Vogel said jury selection would continue into...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
A jury has convicted a Woonsocket man of child molestation after the first trial against him ended with a hung jury.
