Category Archives: Local News

  WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – A 43-year-old Rhode Island man charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Michigan girl he met on social media has been held on $125,000 bail. Charles Morancey, o...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Providence, Rhode Island city employee who says she was compelled to resign from her previous position after years of reporting coworkers’ fraudulent credit card ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island developer’s plan to build a $100 million mixed-use project at the site of the now-closed Newport Grand slots parlor is facing an uphill battle with the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island bill lauded by Gov. Gina Raimondo and Lt. Gov. McKee as holding National Grid accountable for its response to emergency outages has failed a second time to...

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – JULY 19: Adam Lambert and Brian May of Queen in concert at The Forum on July 19, 2019 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)   by Doug Mac...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. File photo. BOSTON (AP) – A federal court will hear arguments in the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence appeal. A federal judge said Tuesday that oral arguments wil...

Club Seven on Spruce Street in Providence, scene of a fight that police said led to the fatal stabbing June 30 of Stephen Cabral, 28 of North Providence. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News   P...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The developer who wants to build a 46-story skyscraper in Rhode Island has been granted a deadline extension for a tax plan. Jason Fane was supposed to provide the 195 Di...

Convicted former Providence City Council President Luis Aponte. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News   By WPRO News Long-serving Providence City Councilman Luis Aponte, who rose to the council p...

Joseph Brisson, 88 talks with Meals on Wheels RI Executive Director Meghan Grady (center) and Rhode Island Office of Healthy Aging Director Rose Amoros Jones (at left) as he receives the group’s...