Category Archives: Local News

BOSTON (AP) – A former New England Mafia capo has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for obstructing an investigation into the 1993 killing of a nightclub owner. Federal prosecutor...

BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) – Police have identified a man who was run over by a delivery truck while he was lying in the drive-thru lane of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Rhode Island. The Providence Journal...

Twin River Chairman John Taylor (left) and DOT Director Peter Alviti (second from left) join local officials and contractors at a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday as the DOT opens a ’roundabout&#...

photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons By DAVID A. LIEB, The Associated Press As the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct began snaring politicians, state legislatures across the country v...

The Washington Bridge construction zone on Interstate 195 westbound, seen from the Taunton Street on ramp in East Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News (PROVIDENCE) – The Rhode Island Dep...

File photo of the R/V Akademik Ioffe WPRO News An Arctic research ship with a contingent of oceanography students from the University of Rhode Island ran aground Friday morning in the Canadian Northwe...

HANSON, Mass. (AP) – Authorities say two people have been removed from a plane that crashed near a small airport south of Boston. NBC Boston reports the small plane crashed near Cranland Airport...

US Department of Agriculture [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsBOSTON (AP) – State officials are reporting the first three confirmed human cases of mosquito-borne West Nile Virus in Massachu...

Democratic candidate for governor Matt Brown. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News   By Tessa Roy, WPRO News Democratic candidate for governor Matt Brown released a housing plan aimed at giving ...

A tractor trailer truck rolls beneath a toll gantry on the first day that Rhode Island began collecting tolls on large trucks, June 11, 2018. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ...