Category Archives: Featured
Pair of East Side Providence fire stations to be decommissioned
Providence Fire trucks. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Battalion Chief Kenneth Rainone, the department’s acting deputy assistant chief, says firefighting operations are ending at the Humboldt ...
Jan 09, 2017
Mattiello introduces legislation to eliminate “double tax” on leased vehicles
The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A bill being introduced in the Rhode Island General Assembly with the support of Democratic House Speaker Nichola...
Jan 08, 2017
Warwick’s Rep Solomon tries again to establish a sales tax holiday
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island lawmaker is trying again to establish a sales tax holiday in August to keep shoppers from flooding into neighboring Massachusetts for a similar incentive. Rep. J...
Jan 08, 2017
Security tightened at Logan after Florida airport attack
photo via Wikimedia Commons BOSTON (AP) - Authorities say they’ve got “enhanced” security measures in place at Boston’s Logan International Airport in the wake of the deadly ai...
Jan 06, 2017
Shooting at Florida airport leaves multiple people dead
In this still image from video provided by NBC TV Local10, people stand on the tarmac after shots were fired at the international airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Local10 and ot...
Jan 06, 2017
Providence, firefighters’ union OK contract restoring work hours
Providence Fire trucks. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Providence City Council and the firefighters’ union have approved a five-year contract, resolving a di...
Jan 06, 2017
Man who escaped from Wyatt Detention Center appears in court
By Anita Baffoni, WPRO News PROVIDENCE- James Morales, the 35-year-old man who escaped the Wyatt Detention Facility on New Years Eve, was ordered detained on a felony escape charge. In a federal court...
Jan 06, 2017
URI agrees to pay $670k to reimburse overcharged students
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - The University of Rhode Island has agreed to pay out approximately $670,000 in reimbursements to roughly 1,200 resident students who were overcharged during the 2015-2016 ...
Jan 06, 2017
New RWU study claims driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants result in safer roads
Stock photo from Wikimedia Commons. WPRO News A new analysis released by Roger Williams University School of Law and the Latino Policy Institute claims that issuing driver's licenses to undocumented i...
Jan 05, 2017
Hummel Report: New Kids on The Block
This week 16 new members of the Rhode Island General Assembly were sworn in along with returning lawmakers – four in the Senate and 12 in the House, arriving from all walks of life and varying p...
Jan 05, 2017
