Category Archives: Featured
CVS penalized $535,000 for filling invalid prescriptions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Drugstore chain CVS Health has agreed to pay a $535,000 penalty to resolve federal allegations that it filled 39 prescriptions for narcotic medications that its pharmacists sho...
Apr 16, 2019
Bill Weld officially announces he is challenging Trump for GOP nomination in 2020
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld announced on April 15, 2019, that he is officially entering the race for president, becoming the first Republican to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 ra...
Apr 16, 2019
Fire out, organ intact but work ahead for charred Notre Dame
This photo provided on Tuesday April 16, 2019 by the Paris Fire Brigade shows fire fighters working at the burning Notre Dame cathedral, Monday April 15, 2019. Experts assessed the blackened shell of ...
Apr 16, 2019
Massive fire breaks out at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Birds fly away from the Notre Dame cathedral as flames reach the rooftop. (Photo via CNN Newsource) By Eric Levenson and Melissa Bell, CNN (CNN) The spire atop the iconic Notre Dame cathedral c...
Apr 15, 2019
Rhode Island looks to protect woodlands from solar farms
Meg Kerr, senior director of policy for Audubon in Rhode Island. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a bill that would help protect...
Apr 15, 2019
Police: 4 more Bryant students charged in on-campus assault
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) - Police say four more students at Bryant University in Rhode Island have been arrested in connection with an on-campus assault. Three student-athletes were previously arrested a...
Apr 12, 2019
Stop and Shop workers walk off job
Workers picket in front of a closed Stop and Shop store on Mineral Spring Avenue in North Providence Thursday. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Tens of thousands of employees a...
Apr 11, 2019
Retired Pope Benedict wades into clergy sex abuse debate
(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, FILE) BY NICOLE WINFIELD, The Associated Press Pope Benedict XVI has ventured out of retirement to publish an essay blaming the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal on the s...
Apr 11, 2019
Sen. Whitehouse targets ‘dark money’ to address climate change
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) met with reporters in his office in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The U.S. Senate's most persistent voice for addressing c...
Apr 11, 2019
Avenatti charged with embezzlement, fraud, cheating on taxes
Photo via CNN. By BRIAN MELLEY, The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Attorney Michael Avenatti has been charged in a 36-count federal indictment alleging he stole millions of dollars from clients, ...
Apr 11, 2019
