Category Archives: Local News
State police investigating tuition waivers of top state aide Montanaro
Screenshot via WPRI-TV PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island State Police are investigating how a top aide to a state lawmaker received nearly $50,000 in free tuition. Former Democratic state Rep. Fran...
Jul 17, 2017
Groups call on Raimondo to veto prescription database bill
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - More than 20 groups, including the Rhode Island Medical Society and American Civil Liberties Union, are calling on Gov. Gina Raimondo to veto legislation that would allow law e...
Jul 17, 2017
Flynn seeks sanctuary from Russia scandal in Middletown surf
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) - Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, at the center of multiple pro...
Jul 17, 2017
BREAKING: Speaker Mattiello vows first move in budget breakdown
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, left, laughs with R.I. House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, right, moments before Raimondo signed the state budget into law during ceremonies at the Statehouse, Tuesday, ...
Jul 14, 2017
The Beach Boys to be first performance at new East Providence concert venue
The Beach Boys, led by original member Mike Love, will kick-off the inaugural live entertainment season at the new outdoor venue located at Bold Point Park on the East Providence waterfront on Wednesd...
Jul 13, 2017
“You Can’t Take It With You” is funny and sweet at TCP
l-r: Frank O'Donnell, Dan Martens, Michelle Golda, Laura Benjamin, Carol Varden and Brian Mulvey. photo credit: Robert Emerson by Kimberly Harper There are several lessons you learn in life. De...
Jul 13, 2017
PODCAST: Rhode Island couple to appear on FOX TV’s ‘Beat Shazam’
Bekah Berger, one half of "The All New Hot Morning Show with Bekah and Mike D" on our sister station Hot 106, will compete for one million dollars on Fox's new summer hit show Beat Shazam. Bekah, alon...
Jul 13, 2017
Coventry woman charged in Exeter hit-and-run that killed pedestrian
EXETER, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island woman has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that left a pedestrian dead last week in Exeter. State police say 23-year-old Shannon Holden, of Coventry, w...
Jul 12, 2017
PODCAST: What’s going on in East Greenwich?
Photo via Flickr/cmh2315fl WPRO’s Gene Valicenti talks with Sue Cienki, East Greenwich Town Council President and Patrolman Christopher Rafferty, East Greenwich Police Department – Union V...
Jul 12, 2017
Governors from US states gather in Rhode Island amid multiple challenges
photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The nation’s governors gather this week amid great un...
Jul 12, 2017
