Category Archives: Featured
Boston doctor fined $6,000 for missing surgery for lunch
Photo: U.S. Air ForceBOSTON, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts' medical board has reprimanded and fined the head of spine surgery at Boston Medical Center after he left an operating room to eat lunch in his ...
Oct 28, 2021
Court upholds settlement in women’s sports case at Brown
The Van Wickle Gates at Brown University. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a settlement between Brown University and student-athlete...
Oct 28, 2021
State’s COVID testing program to begin in Westerly schools
Westerly Superintendent of Schools Marc Garceau (at right) joins state officials October 27, 2021 to announce a pilot program enabling students exposed to COVID to stay in school through testing proce...
Oct 27, 2021
Nor’easter cuts power to over half-million homes, businesses
A single-engine plane, lightened by the removal of its engine for maintenance but tied down roughly where the snowplow is located, flipped over the fence at the New Bedford Municipal airport and lande...
Oct 27, 2021
Clamorous students participate in government — by suing it
Two of the student plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Rhode Island over civic education join lead counsel Michael Rebell (at right) at a news conference November 29, 2018 in Providence. File photo by S...
Oct 27, 2021
Nor’easter leaves half a million without power in New England
The storm, classified as a bomb cyclone, unleashed wind gusts in Massachusetts that rivaled a Category 1 hurricane in spots and caused serious flooding in parts of New York and New Jersey.AccuWeather ...
Oct 27, 2021
Major nor’easter clobbering Eastern Seaboard with heavy rain and wind
States of emergency were in place in New York and New Jersey as officials were on high alert for the storm's impacts, which forecasters said could rival those of Ida and Henri.AccuWeather Global Weath...
Oct 26, 2021
Woman gets 7 years in prison for DUI fatal crash
Superior Courthouse in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island woman was sentenced on Monday to seven years in prison for a drunk driving crash that killed ...
Oct 26, 2021
Group prioritizes ways to spend Rhode Island’s COVID relief money
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By WPRO NewsThe Rhode Island Foundation brought together a number of community leaders to prioritize ways to spend the $1.1 billion in federal American Rescue Plan Mon...
Oct 19, 2021
UPDATE: Police release photo of suspect in killing of convenience store owner
Fall River Police issued a flyer with a photo of a suspect in the October 18, 2021 killing of a convenience store owner.WPRO News and The Associated Press The owner of a Massachusetts convenience stor...
Oct 19, 2021
