Category Archives: Local News
Is the Scituate Town Council President breaking the law?
For more than a decade a business owner in Scituate who hauls crushed cars has violated a directive from the town's building official not to store scrap metal on his property. That business owner also...
Sep 03, 2015
RIPTA bus rear-ended by delivery truck
Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News Sam Wroblewski, reporting by Andrew Augustus A Cintas delivery truck rear-ended a RIPTA bus on route 146 North Wednesday afternoon, sending four people to hospital. ...
Sep 02, 2015
Missing person reported in Central Falls
Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com Central Falls Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who disappeared from his mother's home early Monday morning. 35-year-old Michael O'Shea was reported m...
Sep 01, 2015
Six hurt as structure collapses on Bryant U. campus
Steel I-beams fell at a new Indoor Practice Facility being built at the Bryant University athletic complex in Smithfield, injuring 6 workers. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO News Six cons...
Sep 01, 2015
Officials identify couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Officials have identified a Providence couple who died in August in what police believe was a murder-suicide. The Providence Journal re...
Sep 01, 2015
Officials: 28 Rhode Island bridges in critical condition
A closure sign and barriers block vehicle traffic over the Park Ave bridge in Cranston. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO News and the Associated Press The Rhode Island Department of Transportatio...
Sep 01, 2015
No deal reached for Goodell, Brady in `Deflategate’
New England Patriots at Washington Redskins 08/28/09 WPRO News and the Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Last-minute settlement talks between lawyers for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and New En...
Aug 31, 2015
Newport teachers plan unfair labor practices complaint
WPRO News and the Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) – An attorney for Newport’s public school teachers says the union is filing an unfair labor practice complaint against the scho...
Aug 31, 2015
A 100-year old Pawtucket building makes a comeback
Barbara Fields, Executive Director of Rhode Island Housing at the rehabilitated former Gately Building in Pawtucket. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News A ribbon was cut Monday...
Aug 31, 2015
Man charged with arson in Central Falls fire
Image courtesy of the Central Falls PD By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com A Central Falls man was charged with starting a fire in his girlfriend's apartment following a heated argument last week. Police sa...
Aug 31, 2015
