The Week in RI: High School Assault and a Homecoming

Saturday, May 18

Unique Homes for Sale in Tiverton and Little Compton

Take a look at some of the more unique homes for sale in the area.

Sunday, May 19

Things are changing in the way students with intellectual disabilities experience high school. Case in point – last Friday night, five such students attended the East Greenwich High School prom without their parents or other adults as chaperones.

Monday, May 20

Search Continues for Missing URI Student

The Pennsylvania State Police are still searching for a 21-year-old University of Rhode Island student who went missing last week.

Tuesday, May 21

Heather Abbott Homecoming at Rosecliff Mansion

Enjoy photos of the hundreds of family, friends community members and lawmakers that gathered at Rosecliff Sunday to welcome home Newport resident Heather Abbott, who was seriously injured in the Boston Marathon bombings

Wednesday, May 22

Felonies for 24-Year-Old who Pointed Loaded Gun at Cranston Man

A 24-year-old Cranston man is facing a slew of felonies after allegedly pointing and racking a loaded handgun from his Buick at a man on Summer Street yesterday afternoon.

Thursday, May 23

FTM Voters Nix Amendment to Add Cash to School Budget

Everybody at Barrington’s Financial Town Meeting Wednesday night seemed to want the same thing – all-day kindergarten in the fall.

But the vote against the amendment to add $633,000 to the school budget will make it more difficult for the School Committee to fund what Chairman Robert Shea Jr. describes as “a strategic initiative” and a “priority.”

Friday, May 24

The story of what happened to a after school is chilling, as the boy's mother recounted it.

Toll System Goes Up on Sakonnet River Bridge; Fees to Start in July

Commuters traveling from Portsmouth over the Sakonnet River Bridge on Route 24 will drive underneath the tolling gantry for the first time Friday morning - but they won't be charged until this summer.