On Aug. 4, 2012
A year ago today:
The state child advocate's office is raising concerns about the possible closing of a group home in Wakefield as indicative of wider problems resulting from cost-cutting in the state system of residential care.
On Aug. 4, 2008
5 years ago today:
John M. Cicilline, a prominent criminal-defense lawyer and the brother of Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, faces sentencing in federal court in Boston on Sept. 11 after he pleaded guilty to charges that he conspired to shake down drug-dealer clients for $150,000 and manipulate the criminal justice system.
On Aug. 4, 1988
25 years ago today:
George A. "Buster" Rivera, 26, a former South Kingstown commercial fisherman, dies in Dunedin, Fla. after being struck by lightning as he was pulling his boat out of the water.