Schools closed in three R.I. communities
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_he_me/student_meningitis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070104/capt.rism10201042045.student_meningitis_rism102.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=YmOYicgTx81GNpv1AG5Vrg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Robertson elementary school in Warwick, R.I., is closed, after Rhode Island officials canceled school Thursday, Jan. 4, 2006, for more than 20,000 students in Warwick, West Warwick and Coventry, while health experts search for any connection between a suspected case of meningitis and a second-grader's encephalitis death two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rhode Island officials canceled school Thursday and Friday for more than 20,000 students because of a suspected case of meningitis and the death of a second-grader from encephalitis.</p><br clear="all"/>