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Restaurants to offer outdoor dining, but with screenings
Reporters were spread out in The Vets, a state-owned auditorium near the State House as RI Gov. Gina Raimondo offered her daily coronavirus update Monday, May 11, 2020. Pool photo by Kris Craig / The ...
May 11, 2020
Jobless rate spikes to 14.7%, highest since Great Depression
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst mo...
May 08, 2020
Governor says state on track to reopen; 2 veterans die
The Rhode Island State House. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island has met several benchmarks that Gov. Gina Raimondo said Thursday will allow her to lift the sta...
May 08, 2020
New walk up testing clinic opens in Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A new walk-up coronavirus testing site is opening in Providence on Thursday. The site is located in the parking lot of the former St. Joseph's Hospital near Peace and Broad str...
May 07, 2020
Governor Raimondo unveils aggressive long-range testing program
Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Rhode Island is rolling out an aggressive coronavirus testing program that Gov. Gina Raimondo said Wednesday will help stamp out future outbr...
May 07, 2020
Governor to require masks when in public; RI adds 241 cases
Aerial view of the Rhode Island State House courtesy Rhode Island National Guard PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Almost everyone in an indoor or outdoor public place in Rhode Island will be required to wear a...
May 06, 2020
2 charged with fraudulently seeking pandemic relief loans
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two businessmen have been charged with fraudulently seeking more than a half-million dollars in forgivable loans designed for businesses struggling because of the coronavirus p...
May 06, 2020
Raimondo announces some stipulations on economic restart
Governor Gina Raimondo gives the daily COVID-19 update from the State Room of the RI State House on April 29, 2020. Pool photo by Kris Craig / The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Shopping i...
May 05, 2020
Rhode Island sets a new record for daily virus deaths
Gov. Raimondo answers submitted question from the press as she gives her daily coronavirus update April 24, 2020 along with Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, at left. Standing with them is C...
Apr 24, 2020
R.I. schools to remain closed; 8 new virus deaths reported
Education Commissioner Anglica Infante-Green speaks as Gov. Raimondo announces cancellation of in-school classes and a continuation of “distance learning” through the end of the current sc...
Apr 23, 2020
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