A year ago today:
Former House Minority Leader Robert A. Watson is charged with possession of marijuana in South Kingstown. Watson, a Republican from East Greenwich, has pleaded not guilty to charges of drunken driving and possession of marijuana after a stop at a sobriety checkpoint in East Haven, Conn. last year.
5 years ago today:
Federal prosecutors will retry former Roger Williams Medical Center executives Robert Urciuoli and Frances Driscoll, whose convictions for allegedly paying former state Sen. John Celona to push the hospital's legislative agenda at the State House were overturned by a federal appeals court.
25 years ago today:
A mother and her two young sons are found shot to death in their home on Old Plainfield Pike in Scituate.