Category Archives: Local News
Man who drove drunk, seriously injured girl, sent to prison
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island man who struck and seriously injured a 7-year-old girl while driving with a blood-alcohol content nearly five times the legal limit to drive has been sent to ...
Oct 24, 2018
Attorney General candidate spells out n-word at high school event
By WPRO News A video of Compassion Party candidate for Attorney General Alan Gordon “shout spelling” the n-word has gone national after being picked up by TMZ. TMZ reports Gordon and fello...
Oct 24, 2018
Pension critic endorses Fung in bid to unseat Raimondo
Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung (left) accepts the endorsement of Ted Siedle, a pension consultant and longtime critic of incumbent Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo. Photo by Steve Klamkin W...
Oct 24, 2018
National Weather Service confirms tornado in Rhode Island
Storm damage on Meadow View Boulevard in North Providence where police believe a tornado touched down. Trees and power lines down, but no injuries. (Photo by Steve Klamkin, WPRO News) BOSTON (AP) - Th...
Oct 24, 2018
Red Sox beat Dodgers 8-4 in World Series opener
Fenway Park in Boston. photo via Shutterstock. BOSTON (AP) - The Fenway Funhouse proved too tricky, too cold and just too much for the beach boys. Andrew Benintendi, J.D. Martinez and the Boston Red S...
Oct 24, 2018
RIPTA unveil 3 new zero-emissions buses
Congressman Jim Langevin, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, DEM Director Janet Coit, and Governor Gina Raimondo chat on a new electric RIPTA bus. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By The Associated Press and T...
Oct 22, 2018
GOP group pulls ads for Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate
Republican candidate for Governor Allan Fung talks with reporters outside the RI HHS headquarters. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A political group has started pulling ...
Oct 22, 2018
Three workers hurt in partial mill collapse
Rescuers scramble in a search for survivors after an interior floor collapsed from the 2nd floor to the basement inside this Pawtucket mill undergoing renovations. Three workers were hurt, one critica...
Oct 22, 2018
GRESH’S GRADES – October 21 Patriots vs Chicago Bears
by ANDY GRESH, Weekdays 6-9pm Why do the Patriots make it so difficult on themselves? Defensive penalties, sloppy ball handling, and at times not playing through to the whistle, caused everyone indige...
Oct 22, 2018
3 workers hurt, 1 critical, in Pawtucket mill building collapse
photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - A city official says three construction workers have been hurt in Pawtucket, one critically, when a stairwell collapsed in a mill they were reha...
Oct 22, 2018
