Category Archives: Local News

Photos distributed by the Rhode Island State Fire Marshal’s Office show portable toilets in Charlestown (left) and Westerly, destroyed by suspected explosive devices. WPRO News & The Associa...

Sister and brother Ruby and Sam Goldstein of Providence, who are 15 and 17 years old, tell a rally at the State House Tuesday about their experience during a rally turned violent August 18 at the Wyat...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline and Joan Matley Sheehan of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants urge adoption of minimum standards for airplane seats...

Providence Police investigate at the scene on Eddy Street where a man was found shot inside an SUV (at center). He later died at the hospital. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) &#...

The Beach Boys perform at Bold Point Park in East Providence, RI on August 16, 2019. Photo by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO When Beach Boys’ mastermind Brian Wilson started to...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's attorney general and state police launched investigations Thursday after a truck drove through a group protesting federal immigration policies at a detention cen...

Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements (at left) and Detective Commander Major David Lapatin look over the drugs and guns seized by narcotics detectives in a raid on Sisson Street. Photo by Steve Klamk...

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – Improvements with Providence’s public schools, albeit mostly cosmetic, are already taking effect in the wake of a scathing independent report that found city schools a...

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - The former maintenance manager of a Massachusetts skating rink is facing charges after two cameras were found in the girls' locker room. Brian Boll, of Providence, Rhode Island i...

CVS storefront. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) – CVS swung back to a profit in the second quarter and easily beat expectations thanks in part to its acquisition of t...