Category Archives: Featured
Lawmakers to vote on truck toll bill as opposition continues
Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A bill to toll big-rig trucks traveling Rhode Island highways is moving toward important votes in the state’s General Assembly des...
Feb 07, 2016
Job Lot to put major expansion on hold, blames truck toll legislation
WPRO News Ocean State Job Lot is suspending construction of a new 500,000 square foot $50 million dollar warehouse expansion at its headquarters in North Kingstown. Company officials tell WPRO’s...
Feb 06, 2016
The Hummel Report — Renewed Interest
We conclude our two-part series this week with a closer look at the North Kingstown man who founded Wind Energy Development in 2009. Mark DePasquale is putting up 10 turbines in western Coventry. For ...
Feb 04, 2016
Police release investigations into prospective state judges
Former State Rep Tim Williamson (photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island State Police have released for the first time background investigations into prospective state judge...
Feb 03, 2016
Brown renames Columbus Day again to honor indigenous peoples
Photo by Lindsey Lerner PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The faculty at Brown University has voted to rename what used to be called Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. The Ivy League university in 2...
Feb 03, 2016
Documents show how Gordon Fox funneled $158,000 from campaign fund
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - New documents filed by a lawyer for imprisoned former House Speaker Gordon Fox detail how he funneled $158,000 out of his campaign account. Albin Moser filed eight years of Fox...
Feb 03, 2016
Raimondo talks jobs at State of the State
Governor Gina Raimondo delivers her 2016 State of the State Address. Photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo says she plans to focus this year on building employment skills a...
Feb 02, 2016
Mattiello to Hopkinton: “No toll support? No meeting!”
Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News by Tara Granahan, WPRO The push to toll trucks on Rhode Island roadways has one town crying foul. Hopkinton Town Council...
Feb 02, 2016
RIPTA bus crashes into building in Warwick
Photo Credit: Perry Russom/WPRI-TV WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island Public Transit Authority official says a bus has crashed into a building on Post Road. The crash occurred around 7:30 p.m. Monday...
Jan 25, 2016
Electric Boat to hire 1800 in 2016
Electric Boat President Jeff Geiger. Photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press GROTON, Conn. (AP) - U.S. Navy contractor Electric Boat is building and designing so many su...
Jan 25, 2016
