Category Archives: Featured
Providence considers borrowing up to $515M for pension fund
Providence City Hall. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsThe Associated Press Providence residents will soon decide whether they want the city to borrow up to $515 million for its pension system, which i...
Mar 04, 2022
RI to receive $45 million in Purdue Pharma, Sackler settlement
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN SEEWER, The Associated Press and WPROOxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a settlement Thursday over its role in the opioid crisis that includes virtually all U.S. states ...
Mar 03, 2022
Convicted ex-mayor’s prison sentence reporting date delayed
Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Over the objections of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday pushed back the prison reporting ...
Mar 03, 2022
Nurses at Providence hospital vote to unionize by 2-1 margin
Roger Williams Medical Center. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Nurses voted to unionize by about a 2-1 margin at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, union organizers s...
Mar 03, 2022
Rhode Island to pull pension investments from Russian assets
A Ukrainian police officer stands in front of a damaged residential block hit by an early morning missile strike on February 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, wi...
Mar 03, 2022
Armed man holds police at bay
Police cruisers surround a home on Naomi St. in Bristol where an armed man held police at bay for more than an hour March 2, 2022. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsA tense si...
Mar 02, 2022
State Supreme Court: ‘Civil death’ law is unconstitutional
Rhode Island’s maximum security prison at the ACI. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are cons...
Mar 02, 2022
Rhode Island moves toward legal adult-use marijuana
Senator Joshua Miller (left) and Representative Scott Slater explain details of a bill that would legalize adult-use marijuana in Rhode Island and introduced into the General Assembly March 1, 2022. P...
Mar 01, 2022
Massachusetts’ statewide school mask mandate comes to an end
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - Many Massachusetts school children who returned to the classroom Monday after a weeklong vacation were no longer required to wear face coverings indoors....
Feb 28, 2022
Convicted mayor’s chief of staff reaches new plea deal
Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia and his then chief of staff, Genoveva Andrade in a November, 15, 2018 photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - The former chief of staff to a Massachusetts...
Feb 23, 2022
