Category Archives: Featured
2 men get prison terms for shooting at Providence nightclub
Flow nightclub, is seen in a 2016 file photo. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two Massachusetts men have been sent to prison for shooting up a Rhode Island nightclub they had ...
Jun 29, 2021
CCRI schedules 2 enrollment/vaccination clinics
Community College of Rhode Island Warwick campus. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Community College of Rhode Island is hosting two COVID-19 vaccination clinics this week i...
Jun 28, 2021
Two-month-old baby in state custody dies
Photo via WesterlyPolice.org WPRO News and The Associated Press A two-month-old baby in the custody of state child welfare authorities has died. The Department of Children, Youth and Families in an em...
Jun 28, 2021
Governor: police shooting “off the charts” in terms of concern
Gov. Dan McKee appeared at a housing event in Smithfield June 28, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Steve Klamkin WPRO News Saying concern about an off-duty police officer’s shooting of a t...
Jun 28, 2021
Rhode Island’s only law school requires course on law, race
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) - The only law school in Rhode Island will begin to require that second year students take a course on race and law in the U.S. starting this fall a...
Jun 28, 2021
Top Democratic lawmaker nixes Baker’s sales-tax free plan
Massachusetts Statehouse courtesy Sathiya Raj via Wikipedia BOSTON (AP) - The top Democrat in the Massachusetts Senate on Friday dismissed a proposal by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker to expand the sta...
Jun 25, 2021
Massachusetts announces details of $1M vaccine lottery
Gov. Charlie Baker gets the COVID vaccine at the Hynes Convention Center April 6, 2021. Photo courtesy Mass. Governor’s Office BOSTON (AP) - The first of five drawings for the Massachusetts coro...
Jun 25, 2021
Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd’s death
In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin’s sentencing, Friday, June 25, 202...
Jun 25, 2021
Unemployment, temporary disability benefits rising
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Islanders collecting unemployment benefits and temporary disability insurance are getting more in their checks starting next month. The state Department of Labor and Traini...
Jun 25, 2021
Mass. reminds vendors: No alcohol delivery to public beaches
Crowds flocked to Horseneck Beach in Westport, Mass. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - Complaints about alcohol being delivered to beaches in South Boston prompted a reminder from the sta...
Jun 22, 2021
