On April 14, 2012
A year ago today:
Lowell Cornell, 53, of Coventry dies in an all-terrain vehicle crash about a quarter-mile into the woods behind Linda Drive in Coventry. Rescuers tried for an hour to save Cornell, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
On April 14, 2008
5 years ago today:
Providence Police Chief Dean M. Esserman cancels a promotional examination for sergeant that had been scheduled for April 26 because confidential information about the exam allegedly had leaked to one of the candidates for promotion.
On April 14, 1988
25 years ago today:
A car bomb explodes in front of a club for U.S. military personnel in Naples, Italy, killing five people and wounding at least 17, including three crewmen from the USS Capodanno, a destroyer escort homeported in Newport.