Category Archives: Local News

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A fifth person who participated in a scheme to defraud the IRS of nearly $600,000 has been sentenced in federal court. The Rhode Island...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Police have publicly identified a 22-year-old man who was killed in a daytime shooting outside a market in Providence. The Providence J...

Governor Chafee receives a jacket from Galivm co-founder Luca Calenda. Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News WPRO News Five European companies have pledged to set up shop in Rhode Island as a part of the...

Embattled Coventry Fire District Chief Paul Labbadia leaves a pension hearing in North Providence without comment. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Embattled Coventry Fire District Chief Paul Labbadia...

One Empire Plaza in downtown Providence. Image from Google Maps. By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News The abandoned former home of 38 Studios is set to get a new lease on life. Roger Williams University is expe...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Two Providence men have been sentenced for their roles in a heroin trafficking conspiracy in Pawtucket and Providence. Federal prosecut...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has contested a citation it received from federal regulators for an accident in Rhode Isl...

WPRO News and the Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) – The Navy has dropped its plans to put wind turbines on Aquidneck Island. Lisa Rama, a spokeswoman for Naval Station Newport, tells the Pro...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Foreclosures in Rhode Island dropped in the third quarter by about 5 percent from the same period a year ago. A report released being r...

By Jim Hummel More than a third of the men and women released from prison in Rhode Island return to the ACI within a year – nearly half within three years – often because they have no supp...