Category Archives: Local News
Ratings agency cuts Providence’s credit outlook
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Wall Street ratings agency is lowering its outlook on Rhode Island’s capital city. Moody’s Investor Service cut Providence’s credit rating to negative after...
Dec 02, 2015
Providence man arrested after pursuit through 3 communities
WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Police have arrested a Providence man who led officers on an early morning pursuit through three communities before he struck an officer and...
Dec 02, 2015
Hummel: “No-show” Pawtucket police major retires
by Jim Hummel and WPRO News Facing a possible demotion, controversial Pawtucket Police Major Bruce Moreau has stepped down from the department after a 30 year career. A four-month investigation by the...
Dec 02, 2015
Police: Providence man stole car, led officers on chase
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police have arrested a 20-year-old Providence man they say led state and Cranston police on a chase in a stolen car that eventually crashed i...
Dec 01, 2015
RI, Providence officials aim to improve HIV treatment
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - State and city officials have signed on to an effort to ensure nearly everyone who is infected with HIV is diagnosed and treated. The Rhode I...
Nov 30, 2015
Taxpayers pay more than $6M for PR services to Rhode Island
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island taxpayers have paid more than $6 million last year to private companies that provided communication and marketing services for s...
Nov 30, 2015
RI Trucking Association claims governor withholding toll information
WPRO News The president of the Rhode Island Trucking Association released a public records request Monday that has been filed with Peter Alviti, the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Transpor...
Nov 30, 2015
Black Lives Matter protesters target dancing cop’s new gig
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - More than two dozen protesters attended a scheduled appearance of a retired Providence police officer known as the “Dancing Cop,” but the ex-officer himself di...
Nov 30, 2015
Gas prices up slightly to $2.14 per gallon in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Gas prices in Rhode Island have risen slightly to an average $2.14 per gallon for regular. That’s according to a weekly survey out Monday by AAA Northeast, which says the...
Nov 30, 2015
Police ID grandmother killed in Providence hit-and-run
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence police have identified the 74-year-old grandmother who was fatally struck by a motorist in a hit-and-run accident that also injured her granddaughter. Police said a ...
Nov 30, 2015
