Category Archives: Local News
State Supreme Court: ‘Civil death’ law is unconstitutional
Rhode Island’s maximum security prison at the ACI. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are cons...
Mar 02, 2022
Rhode Island moves toward legal adult-use marijuana
Senator Joshua Miller (left) and Representative Scott Slater explain details of a bill that would legalize adult-use marijuana in Rhode Island and introduced into the General Assembly March 1, 2022. P...
Mar 01, 2022
Massachusetts’ statewide school mask mandate comes to an end
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - Many Massachusetts school children who returned to the classroom Monday after a weeklong vacation were no longer required to wear face coverings indoors....
Feb 28, 2022
Convicted mayor’s chief of staff reaches new plea deal
Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia and his then chief of staff, Genoveva Andrade in a November, 15, 2018 photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - The former chief of staff to a Massachusetts...
Feb 23, 2022
Group with Nazi flag interrupts Communist Manifesto reading
A reading of the “Communist Manifesto” at the Red Ink Community Library in Providence February 21, 2022 was interrupted by a neo-Nazi group. Via Facebook Live PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A rea...
Feb 22, 2022
Gov Dan McKee formally announces gubernatorial bid
Gov. Dan McKee (second from right), trailed by political supporters, tours Igus, Inc., an East Providence plastics manufacturer February 22, 2022 as he announces his political campaign. Photo by Steve...
Feb 22, 2022
Rhode Island’s seafood industry getting $371,000 in aid
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's seafood industry is getting a nearly $400,000 boost from the federal government to help it weather and recover from the COVID-19...
Feb 21, 2022
State Senate president seeks commitment to renewable energy
RI State Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (D-North Providence, Providence) Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's Senate president wants to require the state to be p...
Feb 21, 2022
Lawmakers eye grants to fund innovation to save right whales
A North Atlantic right whale breaches. Photo: NOAA FisheriesBOSTON (AP) - Lawmakers from Massachusetts and New Jersey want to set up a new grant program to help develop technology that assists in savi...
Feb 18, 2022
Rescuers take baby deer out of a well
Rescuers removed a baby deer from a well, covered at right with plywood February 18, 2022 in front of Norm’s Auto Body in Seekonk. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsIt w...
Feb 18, 2022
