A year ago today:
Charlestown police are investigating a car crash that seriously injured four Chariho High School students. Rescue workers used hydraulic tools to remove the roof of a Ford Mustang that crossed the road and hit a tree on Route 112.
5 years ago today:
Demolition has been approved for the former Louttit Laundry, a historic building on Providence's Cranston Street that preservationists have tried to save for more than a decade. The laundry, built in 1906, long housed William Louttit's Home Hand Laundry, but has been vacant since 1987.
25 years ago today:
F.W. Woolworth stores nationwide spot-check their supplies of children's videotapes after a woman complained that a cartoon she bought at the chain's Warwick store included 15 minutes of pornography.