Category Archives: Local News
Gambling companies announce partnership in Rhode Island
Twin River Executive Vice President Marc Crisafullli details expansion plans for the Lincoln casino while (from left) Jay Gendron and Robert Vincent of IGT announce a joint venture between the lottery...
Jan 30, 2020
Rhode Island Senate approves ban on 3D printed guns and ‘ghost guns’
Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's Senate approved a bill Wednesday to ban 3D-printed guns and so-called ghost guns that are untraceable....
Jan 30, 2020
Beavertail lighthouse loop road closed to vehicles due to erosion
Kenneth C. Zirkel [CC BY-SA] JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) - A loop road that goes around a lighthouse at a Rhode Island state park has become so dangerously eroded that is it being closed to vehicular traffic...
Jan 30, 2020
Rhode Island to divest from private prisons, gun makers
General Treasurer Seth Magaziner is joined by Erica Keuter of East Greenwich, a survivor of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, as he said Rhode Island would divest its holdings in four companies tha...
Jan 22, 2020
ACLU sues over continued imprisonment of paroled inmate
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Rhode Island Department of Corrections over the continued imprisonment of an inmate who was granted parole. The Providence...
Jan 22, 2020
Brown fundraiser with ties to Epstein resigns
Jeffrey Epstein, FILE PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Brown University fundraising director placed on leave by the Ivy League school for his involvement in accepting donations from disgraced financier...
Jan 22, 2020
Rhode Island to divest from private prisons, gun makers
The Rhode Island State House. Photo by the Rhode Island National Guard PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island public pension fund will stop investing in companies that operate private prisons and ma...
Jan 22, 2020
Governor announces $27M federal preschool development grant
Gov. Gina Raimondo announces preschool programs will benefit from $27 million in federal grant money January 21, 2020. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Gov. Gina Raimondo...
Jan 22, 2020
Gov. Baker outlines goals in State of Commonwealth address
Governor Charlie Baker (R-Mass.) delivers his 2020 State of the Commonwealth address to a joint session of the Massachusetts legislature. Photo courtesy mass.gov BOSTON (AP) – Gov. Charlie Baker...
Jan 22, 2020
Pawtucket sued over arrest of middle school student
Tre’sur Johnson, now 14 years old appeared at a news conference in the ACLU of Rhode Island Providence office January 20, 2020. Her mother is filing suit against Pawtucket over her arrest last J...
Jan 20, 2020
