Category Archives: Featured
UHIP Benefits system savings to be $2.4 million less than $16M forecast
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island officials have acknowledged that the amount of money the state’s new $364 million benefits system is expected to save taxpayers has been cut by more than $2 ...
Nov 30, 2016
LISTEN: New law to release 38 Studios investigation records?
FILE – In this Wednesday, May 16, 2012, file photo, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, center, is followed by members of the media as he departs the Rhode Island Economic Development ...
Nov 29, 2016
Newly elected legislators learn the ropes on Smith Hill
photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News Newly elected legislators take part in a day-long orientation at the State House Tuesday to learn the ropes on Smith Hill. There ar...
Nov 29, 2016
Two US officials to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral
FILE – In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo Jeffrey DeLaurentis, awaiting Senate confirmation to be U.S. ambassador to Cuba, speaks in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) WASHINGTON (AP)...
Nov 29, 2016
Closing arguments set for Monday in Dan Doyle trial
Dan Doyle talks with reporters in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - Closing arguments are set in the two-month-long embezzlement trial of the founder of a Rhode...
Nov 27, 2016
Tiverton casino project moves forward in divided town
Image courtesy of TRMG MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A plan to build New England’s newest casino near the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border is moving forward after...
Nov 27, 2016
Gov. Raimondo sets RI statehouse Christmas tree lighting for Thursday
The Rhode Island State House Christmas Tree, 2014. (File) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The annual lighting of the Christmas tree in the Rhode Island Statehouse rotunda has been scheduled. Democratic Gov. G...
Nov 27, 2016
Once gone, Thanksgiving Day staple now common in Northeast
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) WILSON RING, Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Wild turkeys, once common across New England, are back after disappearing from the region in the 19th century and are now...
Nov 23, 2016
Coventry lawmaker Nardolillo renews call for seat belts on buses
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A state lawmaker from Coventry is renewing his call to put seat belts on school buses, after a school bus crash in Tennessee killed five children. Republican Rep. Robert Nardol...
Nov 23, 2016
2 Providence firefighters facing drug and gun charges
Providence Fire trucks. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two Providence firefighters have been arrested on drug and gun charges. Joshua Brown and Richard Jimenez were ordered h...
Nov 23, 2016
