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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Failed candidate Roy Moore has doubled down on his claims of voter irregularities in Alabama's U.S. Senate race in a last-ditch effort to stop the certification of the Democrat...

Governor Raimondo talks with reporters. Photo by Anita Baffoni WPRO News By MICHELLE R. SMITH and JENNIFER McDERMOTT, The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has p...

by Tessa Roy, WPRO News Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said Tuesday he wants a "Plan B" to be considered if the legislature doesn't act on the Pawsox stadium deal that's already on the table. Under this ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A man wanted in a fatal stabbing in Providence is now in custody after a standoff with police. Nathan Spardello was seen being taken on a stretcher out of an apartment building...

photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) - An early-morning fire at a Smithfield church is under investigation. The fire at New Life Worship Center was reported just after 6 a.m. Monday ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A key figure in the corrupt administration of late Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci is allowed to keep part of his pension. The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Cia...

photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Christmas tree in the rotunda at the Rhode Island Statehouse is dead. Piles of needles were blanketing the area below the tree Friday, beneath...

For more than a decade the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has allowed a private citizen to run a non-profit museum in a state-owned building, without any public access to what's i...

By MATT SEDENSKY NEW YORK (AP) - The news alerts gushed in: An attack on a concert, a church, an ice cream parlor ; an assailant wielding a gun or hammer or acid . There's an earthquake in Mexico, a m...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island city councilman has been charged with making an obscene phone call to a 13-year-old boy he says was sending sexual messages to his daughter. The Newport Daily News ...