Category Archives: Local News

  Andrew Augustus WPRO News WPRO News Providence's Cable Car Cinema has been working with Sony pictures to get the rights to screen its controversial comedy The Interview after the studio delayed...

Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News WPRO News Providence firefighters rescued three individuals Friday after responding to a fire at a multi-family home on Zone Street. Firefighters rushed to the scene...

Photos courtesy of the Woonsocket PD WPRO News and the Associated Press WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) – Woonsocket police have charged three men in connection with an armed robbery in the city earlier l...

Pool photo by Robert Klein Boston Globe WPRO News and the Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) – Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez returned to court Monday for what will likely...

Officers are sworn into the New Bedford Police Department days after the tragic killing of two cops in New York City. Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News. WPRO News As the City of New Bedford swore in ...

Pool photo by Janice Bassil, The Boston Globe WPRO News and the Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) – Newly released court records show that prosecutors are opposing a bid by the fiancee of ...

WPRO News and the Associated CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) – The Providence Water Supply Board is replacing or rehabilitating a 143-year-old water system that serves most Rhode Islanders. The Providence J...

WPRO News and the Associated Press Police say a man who was injured in a fire in Pawtucket has died. The Providence Journal reports police identified the victim as 62-year-old Robert Iiams. The fire s...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The University of Rhode Island has been awarded three grants totaling more than $400,000 to buy state-of-the-art technology to support ...

  Luis “Fat Boy” Gonzalez is accompanied by his lawyer, Robert Mann and surrounded by sheriffs as he reads an apology to the family of Aynis Vargas, 12, who was shot and killed in Jun...