Category Archives: Featured
Providence man killed, 18th homicide of 2020
Crime scene tape marks the block on Lenox Ave. in the Elmwood neighborhood where Providence police investigate the apparent killing of a man outside his home December 11, 2020. Photo by Steve Klamkin ...
Dec 11, 2020
Supreme Court rejects Texas, Trump election case
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden's election victor...
Dec 11, 2020
Rhode Island’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 1,500
People line up for coronavirus tests at the RI Convention Center December 7, 2020. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The number of Rhode Islanders who have died after contractin...
Dec 11, 2020
Head of state agency tests positive for the coronavirus
RI Director of Administration Brett Smiley, Women & Infants Hospital President and Chief Operating Officer Shannon Sullivan and Dr. Laura Forman, Chief of emergency medicine at Kent Hospital show ...
Dec 11, 2020
US panel endorses widespread use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Vials containing COVID-19 vaccine. Photo courtesy va.gov By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. government advisory panel endorsed widespread use of Pfiz...
Dec 11, 2020
Rhode Island’s virus-control restrictions extended a week
RI Dept. of Health Infectious Disease specialist, Dr Philip Chan, talking about how RI will handle vaccines during the December 10, 2020 coronavirus update with Governor Gina Raimondo. Pool photo by K...
Dec 10, 2020
RIC, CCRI request tuition increases as enrollment drops
The Community College of Rhode Island Knight campus in Warwick. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island have propos...
Dec 10, 2020
RI House committee approves nearly $12.8B state budget
The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island lawmakers have approved a nearly $12.8 billion state budget plan for the current fiscal year that is...
Dec 10, 2020
Rhode Island’s attorney general to quarantine for 2 weeks
RI Attorney General Peter Neronha. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's top prosecutor will quarantine for two weeks after a member of his household tested posi...
Dec 08, 2020
Black Lives Matter group urges COVID action at ACI
Members of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island talk with reporters outside the maximum security prison in Rhode Island December 7, 2020, concerned about curbing the spread of the coronavirus behind prison...
Dec 07, 2020
