Category Archives: Featured
House approves abortion rights bill
Representative Anastasia Williams and other bill sponsors speak to reporters after passage. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By Tessa Roy, WPRO News After roughly four hours of debate, the Rhode Island ...
Mar 08, 2019
Unemployment rate steady, but Rhode Island loses 1,700 jobs
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's unemployment rate held steady at 4 percent in January but the number of jobs in the state fell by 1,700. The state Department of Labor and Training said Thursday...
Mar 07, 2019
Lawmakers adjust proposed RI Senate rule changes
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio. photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island state Senate leaders have adjusted proposed rule changes that some lawmakers complained would ...
Mar 07, 2019
Manafort scheduled to learn sentence for tax and bank fraud
Alexandria VA Detention Center By MATTHEW BARAKAT ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - When former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced for tax and bank fraud , U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will...
Mar 07, 2019
“Escaped Alone” addresses fears big and small
Karen MacDonald as Sally in Escaped Alone. Photo by Peter Goldberg. By Kimberly Rau The Gamm's latest offering-Caryl Churchhill's "Escaped Alone" juxtaposed with Samuel Beckett's "Come and Go" ...
Mar 07, 2019
Former Boy Scouts assistant chaplain faces new sex assault charges
Photo via State Police By Tessa Roy, WPRO News Just weeks after a former Boy Scouts assistant chaplain faced charges for the alleged sexual assault of an 18-year-old disabled man, State Police announc...
Mar 06, 2019
GOP senator reveals she was sexually assaulted when she served in the military
Video via CNN By Elizabeth Landers and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Freshman Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona revealed Wednesday that she was raped while she served in the military. McSally, who is ...
Mar 06, 2019
This Week at the State House
photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons By WPRO News and the Associated Press Attorney General proposes narcotics cases changes Attorney General Peter Neronha is proposing that possession of sma...
Mar 01, 2019
Senate committee votes in support of DCYF director
Dr. Trista Piccola, director of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee has voted unanimously in support of reapp...
Mar 01, 2019
Lawmaker introduces 3 gun control bills
The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Bills that would enact stronger gun control laws in Rhode Island have been introduced in the General Assemb...
Mar 01, 2019
