Category Archives: Local News
Rhode Island’s Billy Gilman to appear on tonight’s “Top 8” episode of “The Voice”
Billy Gilman with WPRO’s Tara Granahan Richmond resident Billy Gilman has advanced to the “Top 8” finalist round on the NBC talent competition “The Voice.” The episode ai...
Dec 05, 2016
LISTEN: Pell Center- Top local story of the year is Truck Tolls
Governor Gina Raimondo's ambitious and controversial plan to modernize aging state roads and bridges - in part, through the imposition of tolls on trucks - has been voted the 2016 Pell Center Rhode Is...
Dec 05, 2016
OPINION: Post-election thoughts at Thanksgiving
By Sen. Harold M. Metts A Sunday hymn before Thanksgiving reminded me that "every day is a day of thanksgiving; God's been so good to me; Every day, he's blessing me." It is with this thought that I w...
Nov 30, 2016
Warwick woman gets prison time in Medicaid fraud scheme
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Warwick woman charged with cheating Rhode Island’s Medicaid program out of more than $250,000 will spend six months behind bars. The attorney general’s office rep...
Nov 30, 2016
Rhode Island lawyer disbarred for $46M plot that targeted dying people
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A lawyer who ran a $46 million investment scheme that exploited terminally ill people has been disbarred. The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Wednesday disbarred Joseph Caramadre...
Nov 30, 2016
WATCH: Rhode Island State Police launch sobering #BeyondTheCrash video series
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police in Rhode Island are embracing social media as an effective tool to help solve their investigations and connect with residents. Coventry police Chief Col. John MacDonald ...
Nov 30, 2016
UHIP Benefits system savings to be $2.4 million less than $16M forecast
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island officials have acknowledged that the amount of money the state’s new $364 million benefits system is expected to save taxpayers has been cut by more than $2 ...
Nov 30, 2016
LISTEN: New law to release 38 Studios investigation records?
FILE – In this Wednesday, May 16, 2012, file photo, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, center, is followed by members of the media as he departs the Rhode Island Economic Development ...
Nov 29, 2016
Newly elected legislators learn the ropes on Smith Hill
photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News Newly elected legislators take part in a day-long orientation at the State House Tuesday to learn the ropes on Smith Hill. There ar...
Nov 29, 2016
“American Buffalo” at the Gamm is a Home Run
By Kimberly Harper The Gamm Theater continues its season with the David Mamet classic "American Buffalo," and, under the direction of Tyler Dobrowski, brings the controversial and crackling examinatio...
Nov 27, 2016
