Category Archives: Local News
Attorney General’s office expands to Cranston
About a million fingerprints are stored at the Attorney General’s Customer Service center in Cranston. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By Tessa Roy, WPRO News Attorney General Peter Kilmar...
Jul 20, 2018
T.F. Green police officials at odds over staffing levels
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - The union representing police officers at Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport says there isn't enough staff to man the increasingly popular airport - contradicting the police chief ...
Jul 19, 2018
18 cats taken from Newport home; Remains of 26 in freezer
Stock Image via Flickr. NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - Eighteen cats have been found in a home in Newport, which also contained the remains of 26 dead cats. The Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelt...
Jul 19, 2018
Providence City Council committee votes against proposed 600-foot tower
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Providence City Council's ordinances committee has voted against a proposal to build what would be the tallest skyscraper in Rhode Island. The Providence Journal reports th...
Jul 19, 2018
Rhode Island law aims to prevent suicides at public colleges
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island is the latest state to require public colleges to do more to prevent suicides. The governor recently signed a measure into law that requires public colleges ...
Jul 18, 2018
Two men charged in 2016 homicide of elderly woman
Tyler Grenon, 23 (left) and Matthew Dusseault, 20 appeared in District Court in Providence on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 to face charges they murdered Constance Gauthier, 81 in her Woonsocket home in Ma...
Jul 18, 2018
RIDOT releases truck toll data
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 By Tessa Roy, WPRO...
Jul 18, 2018
Trillo declines to comment on Trump
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A candidate for governor of Rhode Island who served as President Donald Trump’s state campaign chairman is refusing to wade into the latest controversy involving th...
Jul 18, 2018
State Ethics Commission to move financial disclosures online
photo by Dan Mason/flickr PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Ethics Commission is placing financial disclosure forms for appointed and elected officials online for easy access. The Ethics Commis...
Jul 18, 2018
Providence City Council to hear from public about 600-foot tower plan
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Providence City Council is holding a public hearing about a proposal to build what would be the tallest skyscraper in Rhode Island. The council's ordinances committee will ...
Jul 16, 2018
