Category Archives: Local News

By WPRO Newsroom Three communities are on guard after a letter threatening to behead elementary school children was sent to the Johnston Police. According to a statement from Johnston Police Chief Ric...

  File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) – Family and friends are still searching for a fisherman from Lincoln whose boat capsized last week. Adam Perry Sr....

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – A Cranston man accused of stabbing his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son in the feet with a fork has been held ordered held on ...

Photo by Lindsey Lerner WPRO.com WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Moody’s Investors Service has raised its outlook on Rhode Island bonds to stable from negative, ...

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Homeland Security agents have captured a 27-year-old Pawtucket man aboard a flight headed for France and Lebanon a few weeks...

Andrew Augustus, WPRO News Congressman David Cicilline co-owns the building where the Vault Lounge is located and says the tenants will stay. "We're bound to honor the lease tenants have in the buildi...

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A federal judge has ordered a South Kingstown man to six months of home confinement for defrauding Sears of more than $150,0...

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Central Falls man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Photo of the 3 Dollar bar where the beating took place WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A 48-year-old Providence man accused of fatally beating a car dealer with a two-...

  By Sam Wroblewski, WPRO.com The Coast Guard is searching for the last of three missing fishermen after their boat capsized Thursday evening. Two of the fishermen were found early Friday morning...