Category Archives: Local News
Loose highway plate damages about 18 vehicles
A driver negotiates around plates that came loose on a bridge construction project on Route 95 in East Greenwich in this photo courtesy of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation WPRO News and T...
May 25, 2018
Rhode Island lawmakers pass bump stock ban, ‘red flag’ law
photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons By DYLAN McGUINNESS PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island General Assembly on Thursday moved to strengthen the state's gun laws following recent deadly...
May 25, 2018
Officials remind drivers of new hands free law
Providence Police and other officials remind drivers to put their phones down. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News By Tessa Roy, WPRO News Officials gathered on a highway overpass to remind dr...
May 24, 2018
Hummel Report: Settling it
Nearly four years after the first shovel hit the ground at the $71 million Apponaug Circulator Project, drivers are finally getting used to a new traffic pattern that includes five rotaries over 2.3 m...
May 24, 2018
Partners HealthCare signs deal to buy Care New England
Women & Infants hospital. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - One of Rhode Island's largest hospital chains has signed an agreement to sell itself to Boston-based Partners Hea...
May 24, 2018
Line item veto commission hears testimony
Nicholas Hemond testifies. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By Tessa Roy, WPRO News Advocates say a line item veto would improve government accountability and protect taxpayers from wastef...
May 23, 2018
Raimondo drops Medicaid co-pays from state budget
Photo by Lindsey Lerner PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo's office has announced she will no longer seek charging co-pays to Medicaid recipients as part of her budget proposal. T...
May 23, 2018
Police make nearly 50 arrests in “Operation Patched Out”
Rhode Island State Police Superintendent Colonel Ann Assumpico stands in front of scores of guns, a large quantity of drugs and other illicit items seized in raids that produced nearly 50 arrests in &...
May 23, 2018
Air Canada launches seasonal service to RI
The first Air Canada flight from Toronto makes its way to the gate at T.F. Green Airport. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO News Air Canada began seasonal service between Toronto and T.F. Green Ai...
May 17, 2018
Pawtucket man called a “sadist” is sentenced for murder of his daughter
Jorge DePina is sentenced in the beating death of his daughter, Aleida. Pool photo by Sandor Bodo / The Providence Journal By Steve Klamkin WPRO News Calling him “a sadist, an evil, self-involve...
May 16, 2018
