Category Archives: Featured

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Westerly man convicted of child pornography charges has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. In addition to the seven years and three months behind bars, 41-yea...

More than a century of Republican control in Scituate ended on Election Day, as a team of independent candidates took four of the five top spots in this year's town council race. They did it combining...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - A registered sex offender charged with brandishing a knife and trying to drag a woman into the woods has been held without bail. Authorities said Monday that 53-year-old R...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island transportation officials are moving forward on plans to install electronic tolls that will charge big-rig trucks for traveling along Interstate 95 and other highwa...

photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News The cold and rainy weather didn’t stop upwards of 50 people from delivering a petition to some of Rhode Island’s federal deleg...

Pool photo by Bob Breidenbach / The Providence Journal SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - A former boxing promoter, ex-college basketball coach and founder a Rhode Island-based sport institute has been conv...

MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The podcast “Crimetown” opens with the mayor of Providence attacking a man with a lit cigarette and a fireplace log. It’s ...

Governor Gina Raimondo's ambitious and controversial plan to modernize aging state roads and bridges - in part, through the imposition of tolls on trucks - has been voted the 2016 Pell Center Rhode Is...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police in Rhode Island are embracing social media as an effective tool to help solve their investigations and connect with residents. Coventry police Chief Col. John MacDonald ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ERICA WERNER, AP Congressional Corres...