Category Archives: Local News

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press HOPKINTON, R.I. (AP) – A Hopkinton man has been severely injured in a crash of his all-terrain vehicle. The Westerly Sun reports that police say the...

Members of the Rhode Island Congressional Delegation along with local officials cut the ribbon at Turning Point II in Providence. Photo by Andrew Augustus, WPRO News Andrew Augustus, WPRO News As the ...

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – An elementary school secretary fired for releasing a student to someone who sexually assaulted her has been ordered reinstat...

WPRO News and the Associated Press A University of Rhode Island economist says the pace of the state’s recovery picked up noticeably in the third quarter and calls it a turning point. Leonard La...

WPRO News and the Associated Press A woman has been hit by a bus as she was crossing a Providence street. Barbara Polichetti, a spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, told WPRO the...

Marines and veterans, led by Marine Corps League of Rhode Island Adjutant Michael Zaino, cut a cake to celebrate the Corps’ 239th anniversary. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Marines and vetera...

WPRO Newsroom Providence Police are investigating after the body of a woman was discovered in an SUV on Courtland Street late Sunday night. Major David Lapatin told WPRO News that the body was sent to...

Cumulus Media (WPRO, 92PROFM, LITE ROCK 105 and HOT106) and Operation Stand Down Rhode Island will join forces Tuesday to benefit the Holly Charrette House in Johnston. A charity luncheon will be held...

WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) – The former assistant pastor of an Attleboro church who was also the principal of the church school has been sentenced to five years...

WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island’s attorney general says a 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a Christmas Eve killing i...