Category Archives: Local News
Drowning of boy, 6, called accidental
Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney (right) talks with reporters about Sunday’s drowning of a six-year old boy at City Park. He is joined by (from left) Fire Chief James McLaughlin and M...
Aug 15, 2016
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kaine in Newport
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks at a rally at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., Thursday, July 14, 2016. (AP Photo/...
Aug 13, 2016
New partnership aims to reduce opioid abuse in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island is partnering with the American Medical Association to reduce opioid abuse and heroin use. The American Medical Association, the Rhode Island Medical Society and s...
Aug 13, 2016
Providence Journal investigative reporter Malinowski dies
Bill Malinowski, photo via Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - W. Zachary Malinowski, an award-winning investigative reporter for The Providence Journal, has died following a battle with ALS, o...
Aug 12, 2016
Cranston Police: Dad left 3-year-old in hot car for over half hour
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island father is behind bars after police say he left his 3-year-old son unattended in a hot car for approximately 30 to 40 minutes. Forty-one-year-old Bunroth Chhun was ...
Aug 12, 2016
Six RI communities to share $17 million in energy grants
Gov. Gina Raimondo talks with Jeffrey Diehl, CEO of the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News Rhode Island is helping six communities to finance...
Aug 11, 2016
Governor: ‘Best of luck’ to Schilling if he runs for office
WARREN, R.I. (AP) – Gov. Gina Raimondo says she’s still cleaning up the mess that former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling made in Rhode Island, but she says “best of luck” to him...
Aug 09, 2016
Providence nightclub closed after four are stabbed
Flow nightclub, where police said four people were stabbed early Monday morning. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News A Providence nightclub was ordered closed on an emergency b...
Aug 08, 2016
Station Nightclub fire families upset over Pokemon Go stop at site
In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016 photo, mementoes hang from a chain link fence that surrounds the site of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people in West Warwick, R.I. The memorial to mark the site...
Aug 08, 2016
RI to mark Victory Day; state, local offices closed Monday
Wikimedia Commons photo. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - State and municipal offices will be closed throughout Rhode Island on Monday as the state marks Victory Day. Rhode Island is the last state to r...
Aug 07, 2016
