By Thomas J. Morgan
A year ago today:
A RIPTA bus crashes into a tree off Narragansett Parkway in Warwick after the driver suffers an apparent medical problem.
5 years ago today:
Two clerks at the Division of Motor Vehicles in Pawtucket are charged by the state police in a wide-ranging scheme of falsifying dozens of Rhode Island driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and people involved in mid-level drug dealing.
25 years ago today:
Four people from the Providence area are injured when an explosion knocks them off The El Pescador, a 43-foot wooden yacht serving as the committee boat for a race from Newport to Block Island.