Category Archives: Local News
Raimondo to sign veterans’ cemetery dog ban, other bills
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Dogs are banned from Rhode Island’s veterans’ cemetery under a new state law that imposes a $500 fine on pet owners who break it. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo is s...
Aug 07, 2016
Station nightclub fire memorial nearing completion
MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A memorial to mark the site of a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people is nearing completion, and organizers say it h...
Aug 07, 2016
Judge won’t dismiss SEC suit vs. Wells Fargo over 38 Studios
MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that accuses Wells Fargo Securities of defrau...
Aug 05, 2016
New Woonsocket police chief gets $133K in unused vacation, sick time from Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former Providence deputy police chief who was recently appointed the new police chief in Woonsocket has received more than $133,000 in unused sick and vacation time. Woonsock...
Aug 05, 2016
L.L. Bean set to open first location in Rhode Island
CRANSTON, R.I. - Maine-based retailer L.L. Bean is set to open the doors of its first Rhode Island location at the Garden City Center in Cranston. The company says the new L.L. Bean store debuts Aug. ...
Aug 05, 2016
Wells Fargo to ask for dismissal of SEC suit over 38 Studios
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 ...
Aug 05, 2016
Probe of ex-finance director’s alleged embezzlement launched
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island State Police has launched an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars from The Providence Plan by ex-finance director Charle...
Aug 03, 2016
Bill Clinton remembers Mark Weiner as ‘forever young’ in eulogy
Jesse Jackson arrives to Temple Beth-El with Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza (left) for the funeral of Mark Weiner, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Providence, R.I. Weiner, a major Democratic donor and fundra...
Aug 02, 2016
Rhode Island receives $200k to detect Zika birth defects
(AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island will receive $200,000 in federal funding to enhance its efforts to detect microcephaly and other birth defects caused by the Zika viru...
Aug 02, 2016
Rhode Island is the most dangerous state for senior citizen drivers
photo by Doug Kerr via Flickr Financial news and opinion website 24/7 Wall St. reports that the most dangerous state for senior citizen drivers is Rhode Island, where seniors are 2.2 times more likely...
Aug 02, 2016
