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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO NewsU.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is the new chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget, one of three Senate committees deal...

Gov. Dan McKee begins to deliver his State of the State address before a joint session of the General Assembly January 17, 2022, accompanied by (from left) Speaker of the RI House Joseph Shekarchi and...

U.S. District Courthouse Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from across the nati...

Providence Municipal Court Chief Judge Frank Caprio Photo: FacebookWPRO NewsFrank Caprio, Chief Judge of the Providence Municipal Court has announced he will retire after 38 years on the bench, accord...

Mayor Brett Smiley and Chief Hugh Clements announce a process for selecting a new Providence chief January 13, 2023 in a City Hall news conference. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WP...

Rhode Island Housing Secretary Josh Saal. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsRhode Island’s first Secretary of Housing resigned on Wednesday, and Governor Dan McKee accep...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev BOSTON (AP) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorney urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the 29-year-old's death sentence because of juror misconduc...

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) - The world's largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or cancelled thousands of f...

Ana Walshe – from FacebookCOHASSET, Mass. (AP) - Investigators will inspect several items they found at a Boston-area trash processing facility to determine if they are connected to the disappea...

Senators Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Angus King of Maine meet in Kiev with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy January 6, 2023. Photo: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink Twitter WPRO News ...