The city and the union that represents its City Hall and public works employees have reached an agreement on contract concessions, the receiver appointed to run the city's finances said Monday morning.
For David Upegui, it has been a long journey back to Central Falls High School. When school starts Wednesday, Upegui, one of a dozen new teachers at the school, will be precisely where he wants to be - despite the school's reputation as one of the nation's most troubled.
The effort to close the city's $6.3-million budget deficit is being complicated by a new property revaluation that saw the value of the city's taxable real estate drop 40 percent.
The struggling Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility , which has seen a steady drop in its prisoner population this summer, has hired the top Corrections Department official in Connecticut as warden with a $115,000 salary.
Kayla Benoit sees herself one day working on a cure for a cancer. So, on Thursday, she was back at school and back in a lab coat, readying test tubes and containers in the place she called the "room of something I love to do." The scene: a biomanufacturing-technology classroom and lab at William M. Davies Jr.
Central Falls, R.I., is a small city in big financial trouble. Seeing no way out, Central Falls put itself into receivership, the municipal equivalent of bankruptcy.
Fire officials are investigating two fires, one Monday night when alarm and sprinkler systems failed in a building, and another Tuesday evening when the safety systems worked as planned.
The police say a 4-year-old girl woke up in her family's apartment and somehow got ahold of either matches or a lighter shortly before midnight Monday.
The City Council voted unanimously Monday night to hire its own lawyer, a possible first step in challenging the powers of the state-appointed receiver who announced 10-percent tax rate increase last week.
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