LINCOLN, Rhode Island – A Rhode Island state trooper responding to a call of a medical emergency on a highway has helped deliver a baby in a pickup truck. Police say trooper Matthew Salisbury arrived early Wednesday on Route 146 in Lincoln, a small town ranked among Money magazine’s 100 Best Places to Live.
Salisbury [...]
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Highway Patrol trooper delivers baby
Cows wander onto Interstate 95 in Rhode Island
Transportation officials have vowed to figure out how a group of cows wander onto Interstate 95, most recently on Tuesday morning when several Holsteins stopped rush hour traffic.
The cows from Brook-Knoll Farm walked onto the highway near Exit 2 about 8 a.m. State Police stopped traffic while two troopers used air horns to shoo away [...]
Oscar the cat predicts patients’ deaths
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than [...]
Vultures make Rhode Island home a tough sell
The house is for sale well below its assessed value, has four bedrooms and sits on more than a half acre of land. It’s also got lots of vultures, and that’s made it a tough sell.
The trees around the Hopkinton house are a year-round nesting ground for turkey and black vultures. The previous owners blamed [...]