Category Archives: Local News
Newport Jazz Festival posts lineup, tickets available
Grammy Award winner and MacArthur genius composer and pianist Vijay Iyer, is seen at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival. He will return for the 2023 festival. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Kla...
Mar 23, 2023
Seniors outline their agenda for top RI legislative leaders
House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi (at left) along with Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (partically hidden) listen as members of the Senior Agenda Coalition of Rhode Island outline their priorities Mar...
Mar 22, 2023
Rhode Island probing possible contamination of drug evidence
The Rhode Island Department of Health Laboratory in Providence. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Investigators are reviewing hundreds of criminal cases in Rhode Island tha...
Mar 22, 2023
Cooley resigns as PC coach, heading to Georgetown
Providence College men’s basketball head coach Ed Cooley. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO NewsAfter 12 years as head men’s basketball coach, Ed Cooley resigned on Monday amid re...
Mar 20, 2023
Fane drops Providence skyscraper plan
Artist’s conception of the original, 46-story skyscraper proposed in Providence for former I-195 land. WPRO NewsA developer has scrapped controversial plans to build a towering skyscraper on pri...
Mar 10, 2023
College removes partial Malcolm X quote that sparked protest
Malcolm X in 1964. Photo: Library of Congress KINGSTON, R.I. (AP) - The University of Rhode Island has removed a partial Malcolm X quote from the facade of its main library 30 years after members of t...
Mar 10, 2023
Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines made in the US
The Virginia-class attack submarine USS Vermont makes its way up the Thames River and past New London, Conn. as it returns home after conducting routine operations to Submarine Base New London, Feb. 3...
Mar 09, 2023
No injuries in Smithfield house fire
A woman escaped her burning home on Log Road in Smithfield March 8, 2023. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsA Smithfield woman escaped unharmed when a fire that broke out in t...
Mar 08, 2023
How passengers teamed up to restrain man on chaotic flight
Francisco Severo Torres, 33 of Leominster, Mass. is held in an alleged attack on board a Los Angeles to Boston flight March 5, 2023 is seen in a booking photo distributed by the Massachusetts State Po...
Mar 08, 2023
Electric Boat plans to hire thousands more submarine builders
An artist rendering of the future Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, due to replace the Ohio-class submarines. The first boat of the class is under construction at Quonset and Groton, due fo...
Mar 06, 2023
