Category Archives: Local News
Treasurer Magaziner to announce run for governor
RI Gen. Treas. Seth Magaziner is seen in an August 5, 2021 file photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner plans on running for governor, he...
Sep 13, 2021
Fishing industry group files legal challenge to wind farm
A fishing boat at the Port of New Bedford. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - A coalition of commercial fishing groups on Monday sued the federal agency that approved construction of a 62-...
Sep 13, 2021
RI Democrats press for passage of infrastructure bill
Rhode Island Democratic leaders including (from left) Gov. Dan McKee, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Cong. Jim Langevin and Sen. Jack Reed talk with reporters September 13, 2021 at a North Kingstown highway...
Sep 13, 2021
Medical Examiner: Warren gunman died by suicide
Police crime scene tape barred entry to the Italian American Club in Warren, where two men were shot, one fatally by the club president before the gunman took his own life when confronted by police Se...
Sep 10, 2021
September 11th 20th anniversary remembrances underway
An honor guard and dignitaries salute as the American flag is raised and a giant flag serves as a backdrop September 10, 2021 as the City of East Providence commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 9/...
Sep 10, 2021
ACLU: Lawsuit over mayor’s Facebook blocks settled
Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) - A lawsuit filed by two Woonsocket residents who said the city's mayor violated their First Amendment ...
Sep 01, 2021
Rhode Island Hospital nurses call for pay raises
Rhode Island Hospital. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The union that represents nurses at Rhode Island's only Level 1 trauma hospital is calling on its parent company to incr...
Aug 31, 2021
Drug overdose activists stage “die-in”
Drug overdose activists stage a “die-in” with mock coffins at the Cranston headquarters of the RI Executive Office of Health and Human Services August 31, 2021, calling on the state to fun...
Aug 31, 2021
Man charged in cop vehicle fire ordered to mental hospital
The site across from the Providence Place Mall where a Providence Police cruiser was burned during rioting June 1-2, 2020. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - One of the two men a...
Aug 31, 2021
Police identify victims of weekend shootings in Providence
Andrew Mangru, age 22 of Providence, identified by police as a suspect in the weekend shooting of Andrei Bonilla, 23 is seen in a photo issued by Providence Police PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence p...
Aug 30, 2021
