Category Archives: Featured
The Providence Journal owners ask for overtime pay exemption
File photo CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island’s labor department is considering a request from the owners of The Providence Journal to exempt the daily newspaper industry from state laws r...
Oct 19, 2019
Criminal charges won’t be filed after fatal boat crash
The Newport Pell Bridge is seen from Jamestown. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – State environmental officials say criminal charges won’t be filed after a fatal boa...
Oct 19, 2019
Hookah lounge to serve additional suspension after murder
Nara Lounge, a Federal Hill hookah bar where police said a man was stabbed to death late Wednesday, October 2, 2019. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Providence Board...
Oct 19, 2019
House speaker’s campaign aide charged with money laundering
House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (D-Cranston) By WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island’s attorney general says a campaign aide to the House speaker has be...
Oct 18, 2019
World’s 1st female spacewalking team makes history
NASA astronaut Christina Koch (left) poses for a portrait with fellow Expedition 61 Flight Engineer Jessica Meir of NASA who is inside a U.S. spacesuit for a fit check. Photo provided by NASA CAPE CAN...
Oct 18, 2019
ACLU drops suit against Rhode Island over food stamp delays
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza talks with a school cafeteria worker. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A three-year-old lawsuit challenging the “widespread failure...
Oct 18, 2019
Pawtucket and Woonsocket schools found to be worst funded
State Senator Ryan Pearson (D-Cumberland) Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island legislative task force says schools in Woonsocket and Pawtucket are badly underf...
Oct 18, 2019
Activists press call to bar private prisons
Members of the group “Never Again Action” build a sukkah to mark the Jewish holiday Sukkot, part of their call to occupy the State House to demand an end to for-profit prisons in Rhode Isl...
Oct 17, 2019
Subpoena issued over Cranston chiropractor
The Rhode Island State House. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena to the state of Rhode Island seeking records related to a c...
Oct 15, 2019
Elorza says he’s open to considering moving Columbus statue
A statue of Christopher Columbus in the Elmwood section of Providence was found vandalized on Columbus Day morning, October 14, 2019. It was splashed with red paint and a sign saying “Stop Celeb...
Oct 15, 2019
