Tagged: Warwick

Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian today announced that he is moving ahead with plans to renovate the closed Potowomut Elementary School into a fire station to serve the neighborhood.

Avedisian said in a news release that he will ask the city council to use $2 million in bonds for the renovation. The mayor said putting a fire facility in the old school would allow Warwick to end its fire service agreement with the East Greenwich Fire District, which would save Warwick the annual $350,000 payment to East Greenwich.

The investigation continues this morning into an apparent double murder/suicide in Warwick.  It happened early Saturday morning at a home in the Oakland Beach area.  Police say 45-year old John Oliveira shot his former girlfriend, Carla Bowen, multiple times and then killed her boyfriend before turning the gun on himself. All three victims were dead at the scene.

The crime was reported by one of Bowen’s 12-year-old twin boys. He fled out a dormer window and ran to a neighbor for help. The other twin remained on the roof until police rescued him.

State police have arrested a Warwick attorney on charges of embezzling from an elderly client.  The investigation was launched at the request of the state Supreme Court.

RI lawmakers are considering changing the Voter ID law.  RI artists can get some help managing their money.  These stories and more on the RIPR Morning News Podcast.   
Plus Political Commentator Scott MacKay analyzes what the current sequestration means to RI.

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