Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Tatiana Pina WOONSOCKET, R.I. - A driveway logjam at 250 Bernon St. turned ugly Friday after a woman asked people in a Honda exiting the driveway to make way for a van and a person got out of the Honda and allegedly attacked her brother with a bat. The police said Alexis Cartagena, 22, of 225 Arnold St. was charged with felony assault for his part in the beating of 18-year-old Michael Hawes,...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan By Tatiana Pina Journal Staff Writer WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Officers from the Woonsocket and Cranston police departments arrested two brothers this week and charged them with drug offenses. On Wednesday officers arrested Edward Thimas, 28, of Upland Road, and Raymond Thimas, 30, both of Forest Street, Warwick. Officers said they confiscated 135 pounds of marijuana. Journal...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Paul Grimaldi WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Woonsocket-based Summer Infant Inc. has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit, the consumer goods maker disclosed Friday in a federal regulatory filing. The complaint filed with the Circuit Court for Cook County, Ill., alleges that Summer Infant failed to properly warn consumers that signals from its video monitors could be viewed outside...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
WOONSOCKET, R.I. - City Councilman Leo Fontaine will be the next mayor of Woonsocket. Fontaine, a Republican, defeated retired police officer Todd Brien, a Democrat, in...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By News staff MinuteClinic will move its headquarters next year from Minneapolis to Woonsocket, R.I, eliminating 150 jobs in Minneapolis, the Star-Tribune newspaper there reported in Wednesday's edition. The company pioneered low-cost kiosks staffed by nurse practitioners in 2000 in Minnesota, spawning a national industry in retail clinics. Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. bought MinuteClinic...
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Woonsocket City Council President Leo Fontaine, a Republican, was elected over Todd Brien to replace Susan Menard as Mayor yesterday. But, as explained by the ProJo's John Hill, there is something unique about the structure of Woonsocket politics that probably...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
City Councilman Leo Fontaine will be the next mayor of Woonsocket. Fontaine, a Republican, defeated retired police officer Todd Brien, a Democrat, in Tuesday's election. Incumbent Mayor Susan Menard chose not to run again after 14 years in office.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
WOONSOCKET –– They cut class at Woonsocket High School to break into a house — but it’s the homework that tripped them up.Two 15-year-old boys skipped out of their class early Monday afternoon and broke into a house a half-mile away from the school, said Police Lt. Eugene Jalette. After stealing some game systems, Jalette said, the boys grabbed their backpacks and headed back...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) said the company's comprehensive adherence program for people with diabetes positively impacts medication adherence for both new and continuing patients. A review of data tracking the program found that 75.6 percent of patients continuing on a diabetes therapy who participated in the adherence program maintained optimal adherence...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) said the company's comprehensive adherence program for people with diabetes positively impacts medication adherence for both new and continuing patients.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... pregnant women and women who have recently given birth are scheduled for Saturday in Providence, Woonsocket and Wakefield.------On the Web: Rhode Island department of Public Health,
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By News staff PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - League officials in Rhode Island are investigating a fight between members of two girls' high school soccer teams who threw punches, pulled hair and sparked a brawl in the bleachers. The fight, captured on video by WPRI-TV, broke out Sunday with about a minute left in a match between Woonsocket and Tolman high schools. Woonsocket was leading 5-0 when...
Money Making Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
20-year-old New Mexico Soccer Player Elizabeth Lambert was Suspended because of was known for pulling hair, and throwing punches at opposite team players. The fight video captured by WPRI-TV on Sunday with about a minute left in a match between Woonsocket and Tolman high schools. In this Soccer Woonsocket was leading 5-0. According to police report, a 27-year-old man attacked two women...
The Dreamin' Demon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Providence, Rhode Island – A fight broke out between player’s of a high school girls’ soccer match on Sunday night. During the final moments of Tolman vs. Woonsocket, a game that the Woonsocket Villa Novans had a 5-0 lead, a cat fight broke out between Kristen Cahill and Maria Lopera. There is punches [...] Related posts: Alfredo Moniz Is A Soccer Coach, Chicken Hawk...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
WOONSOCKET, R.I. and UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), the nation's largest pharmacy health care provider, and Generation Health, Inc., a genetic benefit management company (GBM), today announced a strategic partnership to expand pharmacogenomic (PGx) clinical and testing services for CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) clients to improve...
