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Police release name of 19-year-old shooting victim
File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police on Monday released the name of a 19-year-old man shot to death in Providence over the weekend. Johnjairo Brito was shot multiple ti...
Mar 01, 2021
Lt. Gov. tours vaccination site on anniversary of 1st case
RI Lt. Gov. Dan McKee (left) and Warwick Mayor Frank Picozzi compare notes at the Warwick COVID vaccination clinic March 1, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Middle School in Warwick. Photo by Steve Klamkin W...
Mar 01, 2021
New England COVID-19 rates steady
Nurses receive final instructions just before doors open to the public at the state-run coronavirus vaccination center at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence on February 18, 2021. Photo by Steve Kl...
Feb 28, 2021
Rhode Island voters to weigh in on state bond questions
Children play at a daycare center in Providence on February 23, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday, but instead of v...
Feb 28, 2021
Brown raises $20M to support diversity, equity and inclusion
Brown University students walked out of classes December 5, 2018 on the 50th anniversary of a walkout by black students to protest their tiny numbers in 1968. The original protest resulted in an incre...
Feb 28, 2021
Rhode Island’s coronavirus death toll passes 2,500 mark
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The number of Rhode Islanders who have died after contracting COVID-19 has passed the 2,500 mark, according to state Department of Health numbers released Friday. With six more...
Feb 26, 2021
U.S. attorney for Rhode Island announces resignation
U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island Aaron Weisman has announced his resignation. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The U.S. attorney for Rhode Island, the top federal law enforc...
Feb 26, 2021
A mister no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral
Mister Potato Head greets visitors outside Hasbro World Headquarters in Pawtucket on November 7, 2018. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News NEW YORK (AP) - Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister. Hasb...
Feb 25, 2021
Officials: Rhode Island’s vaccination efforts improving
Lt. Gov. Dan McKee and RI Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott at a coronavirus briefing January 13, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press Rhode Island is doing a better jo...
Feb 25, 2021
State-run clinics add 10,000 vaccination appointments
Curtained cubicles at the state-run COVID vaccination clinic at the Dunkin Donuts Center February 18, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News Rhode Island's state-run COVID-1...
Feb 22, 2021
