Category Archives: Local News
A mister no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral
Mister Potato Head greets visitors outside Hasbro World Headquarters in Pawtucket on November 7, 2018. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News NEW YORK (AP) - Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister. Hasb...
Feb 25, 2021
Officials: Rhode Island’s vaccination efforts improving
Lt. Gov. Dan McKee and RI Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott at a coronavirus briefing January 13, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press Rhode Island is doing a better jo...
Feb 25, 2021
State-run clinics add 10,000 vaccination appointments
Curtained cubicles at the state-run COVID vaccination clinic at the Dunkin Donuts Center February 18, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News Rhode Island's state-run COVID-1...
Feb 22, 2021
2 more mass vaccination sites opening in Massachusetts
Syringes filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are ready to be administered to people at a public health clinic run by the City of Fall River at Bristol Community College in Fall River on February ...
Feb 22, 2021
Insiders to discuss 2nd Trump impeachment trial
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman David Cicilline in a joint appearance in 2019. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Rep. David Cicilli...
Feb 21, 2021
McKee hopes to tap cities, towns to expand vaccinations
Lt. Gov. Dan McKee spoke with reporters February 17, 2021 at the opening of a COVID vaccine clinic in Portsmouth. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Dan McK...
Feb 21, 2021
Feds drop legal battle over tribe’s reservation status
Artist’s rendering of the First Light Casino proposed for Taunton courtesy Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) - The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe scored a legal victory Friday when the U.S. I...
Feb 21, 2021
Rhode Island reaches out to those who cannot leave home
The RI Department of Health offices in Providence. PROVIDENCE, R.I (AP) - As part of its plan to get the coronavirus vaccine to residents who cannot leave their homes, Rhode Island health officials on...
Feb 19, 2021
Weather prompts postponement of vaccinations at Newport site
Photo courtesy Community College of Rhode Island NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - Coronavirus vaccine appointments scheduled for Friday at the Community College of Rhode Island's Newport campus have been postpone...
Feb 19, 2021
Police probe fatal early morning shooting in Pawtucket
Pawtucket Police headquarters. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - Police in Pawtucket are investigating an early morning shooting that left a 20-year-old man dead. Police in ...
Feb 18, 2021
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