Category Archives: Featured

Trucking industry seeks to appeal suit over new state tolls
A tractor trailer truck rolls beneath a toll gantry on the first day that Rhode Island began collecting tolls on large trucks, June 11, 2018. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ...
Cumulus Media Mar 29, 2019

FBI seeks witnesses in Jassy Correia case
By WPRO News and the Associated Press The FBI Violent Crimes Task Force and the Boston Police Department are looking for the public’s help in identifying potential witnesses connected to the all...
Cumulus Media Mar 27, 2019

Bill passes to collect sales tax from online retailers in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island General Assembly has passed legislation to collect the sales tax from online retailers. Lawmakers approved the bill Tuesday, sending it to the governor for con...
Cumulus Media Mar 27, 2019

PPAC to bring students to shows
By WPRO News The Providence Performing Arts Center is announcing plans to bring every 10th grader to a show this coming season. Theater President Lynn Singleton says the initiative will be called Expe...
Cumulus Media Mar 26, 2019

Robert Kraft pleads not guilty in solicitation of prostitution case in Florida
Photo via CNN. By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Robert Kraft entered a plea of not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution and requested a jury trial, according to court document...
Cumulus Media Mar 26, 2019

Rhode Island officials abandon plan to increase beach parking fees
Salty Brine State Beach in Galilee. WPRO News Photo. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - State environmental officials are no longer considering raising beach parking fees in Rhode Island. Department of Environme...
Cumulus Media Mar 26, 2019

US Labor Department sues restaurants over overtime pay
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against the owner and managers of two Rhode Island restaurants alleging they didn’t pay 11 workers properly for wor...
Cumulus Media Mar 26, 2019

Prosecutors abandon criminal case against Jussie Smollett
CHICAGO (AP) - In an astonishing reversal, prosecutors on Tuesday abruptly dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett, abandoning the case barely five weeks after the "Empire" actor was accused of ly...
Cumulus Media Mar 26, 2019

Former North Providence School Superintendent charged with embezzlement, fraud
Bridget Morisseau is seen in a booking photo provided by North Providence Police WPRO News and The Associated Press North Providence police have arrested the town’s former school superint...
Cumulus Media Mar 26, 2019

DOJ: Trump campaign did not coordinate with Russia in 2016
AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired o...
Cumulus Media Mar 24, 2019





