Category Archives: Local News
Peter Alviti steps down as RIDOT Director
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After more than a decade leading Rhode Island's transportation agency, Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti is stepping down. Governor Dan McKee announced...
Feb 04, 2026
Man suspected in shooting at Brown University found dead in New Hampshire
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Updated 10:14 PM EST, December 18, 2025 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown Uni...
Dec 18, 2025
Prov PD release new photo, video of person of interest in Brown shooting
By HELEN WIEFFERING, BYRON TAU, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BRIAN SLODYSKO PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The ongoing effort to find a man who walked onto Brown University 's campus during a busy exam season and ...
Dec 16, 2025
Brown campus mourns the death of 2 students in weekend shooting
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and KATHY McCORMACK Updated 4:58 PM EST, December 15, 2025 An aspiring neurosurgeon and a student leader of Brown University's campus Republicans were in a study group prepari...
Dec 15, 2025
Authorities say they will release person of interest detained in Brown University shooting
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, AMANDA SWINHART and HOLLY RAMER Updated 12:03 AM EST, December 15, 2025 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A person of interest detained after a Brown University shooting that killed two stu...
Dec 15, 2025
Nine killed in fire at Fall River assisted living facility
By MICHAEL CASEY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI, The Associated Press – Updated 9:58 AM EDT, July 14, 2025FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killi...
Jul 14, 2025
CVS Health steers through rising insurance costs in a strong fourth quarter
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press CVS Health steered through rising costs in its insurance division to handily beat profit expectations on Wall Street.The drugstore chain and pharm...
Feb 12, 2025
14 from figure skating community including a Barrington teen are killed in plane crash, six of them from Boston club
Spencer Lane is seen on the ice in a photo shared by the Lane family NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) - Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Bos...
Jan 30, 2025
Trump, in his inaugural address, rips into the country’s past leaders and makes sweeping promises
In a screenshot from his video feed, President Donald Trump delivers his second inauguration speech in the U.S. Capitol rotunda January 20, 2025. NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump's second i...
Jan 20, 2025
Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump
White House COVID Chief Medial Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci participates in a briefing Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo b...
Jan 20, 2025
