Category Archives: Local News
Sale of beer at Roger Williams Park Zoo is being considered
Temple of Music at Roger Williams Park Zoo, photo by Josh McGinn via Flickr PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The company that provides food and beverage services for Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence has a...
Apr 14, 2016
$300,000 innovation grant goes to multicultural tourism plan
Raymond Two Hawks Watson, winner of the 2016 RI Foundation “Genius Grant” PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Providence man with a plan to expand multicultural tourism in Rhode Island is the recipi...
Apr 13, 2016
Eight to be inducted into Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame
PAWTUCKET - With eight inductees in Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016, organizers have split the celebration into three separate events. On Thursday, April 21, jazz musicians Greg ...
Apr 13, 2016
UPDATE: About 39K Verizon workers strike amid contract dispute
Verizon workers on strike, picketing the company’s Providence offices. Photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - About 39,000 Verizon landline and cable work...
Apr 13, 2016
17 arrested in Rhode Island internet gambling ring bust
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Seventeen people have been arrested in what Rhode Island State Police say is an Internet-based gambling ring. Colonel Steven O’Donnell says on Tuesday that the arrests ar...
Apr 12, 2016
“Where’s my refund?” – some Rhode Islanders still haven’t received tax refunds
by Tara Granahan, WPRO After asking just that on Monday, WPRO’s Tara Granahan got dozens of phone calls and emails regarding missing Rhode Island income tax refunds. Listeners told Granahan a va...
Apr 12, 2016
Exclusive boarding schools rocked by sex scandals
In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 photo buildings at St. George’s School rest on top of a hill in Middletown, R.I. The exclusive New England boarding school, whose alumni include Astors, Vanderbilt...
Apr 12, 2016
Whole Foods recalls mislabeled salad sold in Providence
Whole Foods Market, W. Hartford, CT. 8/2014 by Mike Mozart/Flickr CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Salads made at a Whole Foods Market facility in Massachusetts and distributed to more than a dozen stores arou...
Apr 12, 2016
US Labor Secretary Perez to address Roger Williams Law School commencement
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez speaks on June 24, 2015, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) - U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is scheduled to deliv...
Apr 08, 2016
Firefighters planned to boycott opening day at McCoy Stadium
Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - Although the game was rained out, Pawtucket firefighters say they had planned to boycott opening day at McCoy Stadium over the looming closure...
Apr 08, 2016
