Category Archives: Local News
Fire forces evacuation of day care center
Firefighters work to put down a fire believed begun in solar panels on the roof of a building housing a day care center in Lincoln January 21, 2022. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin W...
Jan 21, 2022
Trinity’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” is therapy for the soul
By Kimberly RauThe company of Tiny Beautiful Things.Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed, adapted for stage by Nia Vardalos, co-conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, and Nia Vardalos. Directed by ...
Jan 21, 2022
2nd top Rhode Island health official announces resignation
Tom McCarthy, Executive Director for COVID response RI Department of Health. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Just days after the director of Rhode Island's Department of ...
Jan 21, 2022
Possible snow in Southern New England Sunday into Monday
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologistPublished Jan. 12, 2022 1:42 PM EST | Updated Jan. 13, 2022 1:42 PM ESTAccuWeather forecasters warn that a snowstorm could wreak havoc...
Jan 13, 2022
RI Dept of Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott to step down
RI Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott appeared alongside Gov. Dan McKee at a COVID briefing November 16, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press Rhode Island's top public h...
Jan 13, 2022
Dead humpback whale washes up on RI beach
A dead humpback whale washed ashore on a remote Little Compton beach January 8, 2022. Photo: RI Department of Environmental ManagementBy Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsA ten-ton humpback whale washed up on a ...
Jan 11, 2022
Short-staffed hospitals allow asymptomatic employees to work
Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two health care facilities in Rhode Island have allowed staff who tested positive for COVID-19 but were not...
Jan 10, 2022
Massachusetts school mask requirement extended to Feb. 28
Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey Riley is seen in an April 30, 2021 file photo provided by the Office of the Mass. GovernorMALDEN, Mass. (AP) - Students and emp...
Jan 10, 2022
Massachusetts officer stabbed in face, shoots, kills suspect
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts police officer shot and killed a man who had stabbed him in the face, officials said.Two Springfield officers responded to reports of a man with a knife who h...
Jan 10, 2022
Latest forecast for upcoming snowstorm in Northeast
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologistAs communities in the mid-Atlantic continue to dig out from an early-week snowstorm, AccuWeather forecasters are warning that mor...
Jan 05, 2022
