Category Archives: Featured

Aetna deal begins to pay off for CVS
CVS storefront. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) – CVS swung back to a profit in the second quarter and easily beat expectations thanks in part to its acquisition of t...
Cumulus Media Aug 07, 2019

Missing Michigan girl found at Rhode Island man’s home
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – A 43-year-old Rhode Island man charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Michigan girl he met on social media has been held on $125,000 bail. Charles Morancey, o...
Cumulus Media Aug 07, 2019

Worker sues Providence over alleged whistleblower retaliation
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Providence, Rhode Island city employee who says she was compelled to resign from her previous position after years of reporting coworkers’ fraudulent credit card ...
Cumulus Media Aug 07, 2019

Community pushes back on proposed Newport Grand site development
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island developer’s plan to build a $100 million mixed-use project at the site of the now-closed Newport Grand slots parlor is facing an uphill battle with the ...
Cumulus Media Aug 07, 2019

Legislation regulating National Grid fails a second time
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island bill lauded by Gov. Gina Raimondo and Lt. Gov. McKee as holding National Grid accountable for its response to emergency outages has failed a second time to...
Cumulus Media Aug 06, 2019

Ex-cardinal’s letters to victims show signs of grooming
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)www.swiss-image.ch/Photo by Andy Mettler [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]By NICOLE WINFIELD, The Associated Press VATICAN...
Cumulus Media Aug 06, 2019

Court to hear Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty appeal
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. File photo. BOSTON (AP) – A federal court will hear arguments in the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence appeal. A federal judge said Tuesday that oral arguments wil...
Cumulus Media Jul 31, 2019

Club Seven, linked to Federal Hill homicide, allowed to reopen with conditions
Club Seven on Spruce Street in Providence, scene of a fight that police said led to the fatal stabbing June 30 of Stephen Cabral, 28 of North Providence. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News P...
Cumulus Media Jul 31, 2019

Fane Tower developer gets extension for tax plan
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The developer who wants to build a 46-story skyscraper in Rhode Island has been granted a deadline extension for a tax plan. Jason Fane was supposed to provide the 195 Di...
Cumulus Media Jul 31, 2019

Q&A: What to know about the Capital One data breach
The Capital One hack is of the largest data breaches ever — and among those affected are some of the bank’s most financially vulnerable customers.Full credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/G...
Cumulus Media Jul 31, 2019





