Category Archives: Local News
Rhode Island unemployment rate drops to 6.5 percent
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The unemployment rate in Rhode Island in January dropped to 6.5 percent, the lowest rate in nearly seven years. The state Department of...
Mar 12, 2015
Judge denies Aaron Hernandez request to strike gun testimony
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO News and the Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) – The judge overseeing the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has denie...
Mar 12, 2015
FBI seeks to ID woman in photo resembling missing Ohio girl
WPRO News and the Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) – The FBI is ramping up efforts to identify a woman in a Rhode Island surveillance photo who investigators say strongly resembles a girl missing...
Mar 12, 2015
Attorney General files ‘revenge porn’ legislation
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The House Judiciary Committee is again considering legislation that would ban the publishing of explicit images of someone without thei...
Mar 11, 2015
ACLU: RI grade school promoting gender stereotypes
By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued a report Tuesday saying grade schools are promoting gender stereotypes and discriminating against girls by givin...
Mar 10, 2015
Fall River police arrested suspect in bank robbery
Photo courtesy of Fall River PD By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com Fall River police are investigating after they arrested a suspected allegedly involved in a daylight robbery at Bay Coast Bank. Police arr...
Mar 10, 2015
Luis Mendonca arrested again in Pawtucket
Luis Mendonca. File pool photo by Kathy Borchers/The Providence Journal By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News The man at the center of a Providence police brutality case has been arrested again, this time for we...
Mar 10, 2015
RI payroll company owner sentenced for stealing IRS taxes
By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com A Rhode Island payroll company owner has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for stealing over a million dollars in IRS taxes from small businesses and municipa...
Mar 10, 2015
Woonsocket mayor to pay $750 penalty for ethics violation
WPRO News Woonsocket’s mayor has agreed to pay a $750 civil penalty for violating the nepotism clause in the state’s ethics code by hiring her son for an unadvertised summer job. The Rhode...
Mar 10, 2015
Federal housing audit raps Rhode Island over use of money
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – An audit report says Rhode Island failed to properly administer federal housing money and that federal officials have no assurance that...
Mar 10, 2015
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