Category Archives: Local News
State Police create hotline to report clergy sexual abuse
Rhode Island State Police headquarters. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island State Police have created a new hotline for people to report allegations of clerg...
Sep 29, 2019
Providence to dismantle bike lane installed this month
Eaton Street bike lane. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence officials say they have decided to dismantle the city’s first two-way bike lane a month after its...
Sep 29, 2019
Brown’s endowment grows to a record high $4.2B
The Van Wickle Gates at Brown University. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Brown University’s endowment outperformed benchmarks to grow to a record $4.2 billion. Th...
Sep 27, 2019
Judge lifts decree regarding students with disabilities
Providence Schools offices. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A federal judge has lifted a decree that requires Providence to change the way it treated students with intel...
Sep 27, 2019
Grand jury investigating August jail clash
In this still image from video provided by WLNE-TV, protesters blocking an entrance to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility begin to move as a pickup truck approaches, Wednesday night, Aug. 1...
Sep 26, 2019
Massachusetts temporarily banning sale of all vaping products
BOSTON (AP) - The governor of Massachusetts on Tuesday declared a public health emergency and ordered a four-month ban on the sale of vaping products in the state. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's orde...
Sep 24, 2019
GOP ethics complaint against Democratic state senator dismissed
Senator Valarie Lawson (D-East Providence) Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint accusing a state senator of conflict of...
Sep 24, 2019
Rhode Island State Police to open 3 new substations
Rhode Island State Police headquarters in Scituate. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News EXETER, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island State Police say they plan to create three new state police substations...
Sep 24, 2019
Update: beached whale euthanized
A whale found beached at Fairhaven Tuesday morning is seen in a screen shot from video provided by weather spotter ML Baron By WPRO News A whale found beached on a narrow spit of land in Fairhaven thi...
Sep 24, 2019
Cicilline: Whistleblower case could lead to impeachment
Congressman David Cicilline. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News President Donald Trump denies he pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate Vice President Joe Biden...
Sep 23, 2019
