Category Archives: Local News
Special election set for newly-vacant Bristol/Warren House seat
Photo via Laufton Ascencao social media PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Officials have set the date for a special election to fill the seat of a newly-elected Rhode Island state representative who resigned ov...
Dec 11, 2018
Raimondo announces six judicial picks
Governor Raimondo with her judicial picks Richard Merola, Melissa Darigan, Christopher Knox Smith, Melissa DuBose, Susan Pepin Fay, and Keith Cardoza. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By WPRO News Gover...
Dec 10, 2018
Diverse group of PACs supported Rhode Island campaigns
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A wide range of political action committees supported Rhode Island campaigns this year. The Providence Journal reports that PACs run by unions, large corporations, advoca...
Dec 10, 2018
Police: Officer-involved shooting was justified
A home at 14 Manning St. in North Providence, the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News North Providence Deputy Police Chief Arthur Mar...
Dec 10, 2018
The Hummel Report: Blurred Lines
The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority has helped raise more than $1 million since 2011 for local charities through its popular Pell Bridge Run and two other events. But with it has come quest...
Dec 07, 2018
Relic from Pearl Harbor attack coming to Rhode Island
Multiple American ships were damaged or destroyed in the attack — you can see the USS Shaw on fire in this image. Photo via CNN. WAKEFIELD, R.I. (AP) – A piece of a battleship destroyed du...
Dec 07, 2018
Cranston hires collection agency over unpaid school lunches
image via Wikimedia Commons CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island school district has hired a collection agency to recover unpaid lunch balances. Cranston Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Raymond...
Dec 07, 2018
“It’s a Wonderful Life” gets new take at Pawtucket’s Community Players
By Kimberly Rau Almost everyone knows the classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life," where the overworked and underappreciated George Bailey feels like the world would be better without him in it...until ...
Dec 06, 2018
Bristol Theater Co presents “It’s A Wonderful Life” as impressive, inventive radio play
by Frank O’Donnell Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to produce an on-air spectacle before the invention of television? Well, the folks at Bristol Theater Company have just what...
Dec 06, 2018
Man indicted on charges of sending white powder to feds
BOSTON (AP) – A Massachusetts man has been indicted on charges that he sent threatening letters and packages containing white powder to federal officials, including one that had a death threat a...
Dec 06, 2018
