By Thomas J. Morgan
A year ago today:
A Somerset man speeding from Warwick police slams against a bridge abutment in Cranston, killing his girlfriend and costing him his legs in the fiery crash.
5 years ago today:
Cranston officials summon the police and fire departments and state health and environmental officials after a Cranston High School East student playing with a small thermometer broke it in a home economics classroom. It was the second minor mercury spill in less than a year. No one was hurt.
25 years ago today:
U.S. Marshal Donald W. Wyatt tells a gathering of Hopkinton residents that only ecological problems or a "firestorm" of public opposition can prevent a medium-security prison from being built on federal property in this rural town.