Category Archives: Local News
Rift between Gov. Baker, teacher unions deepens on vaccines
Governor Charlie Baker, in a visit March 3, 2021 to West Parish School in Gloucester announced teachers and other school personnel would be able to schedule vaccinations. Photo courtesy Office of the ...
Mar 11, 2021
Providence pledges crackdown on ATVs, dirt bikes
Dirt bikes and ATVs take part in the “Justice for Jhamal” Gonsalves rally October 20, 2020 after the Providence rider was critically wounded in an encounter with police. Photo by Steve Kla...
Mar 11, 2021
Judge dismisses tuition refund claims brought by students
Johnson & Wales University John J. Bowen Center for Science and Innovation. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims in lawsui...
Mar 11, 2021
Rhode Island man sent to prison for meeting minor in Canada
Federal courthouse in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man who traveled to Canada to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met online has been sentenced...
Mar 11, 2021
Massachusetts to launch vaccine preregistration system
In an image from video, Gov. Charlie Baker speaks March 10, 2021 at Shawmut Corp., an N-95 mask manufacturing facility in West Bridgewater to announce a COVID vaccine pre-registration system BOSTON (A...
Mar 10, 2021
PUC gets new member despite reservations by some lawmakers
Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former Democratic state lawmaker has been confirmed as a member of the state Public Utilities Commission despite co...
Mar 10, 2021
State-run mass vaccination site opens in Middletown
Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's third coronavirus mass vaccination site opened Wednesday at the site of a former Benny's store in Middletown. Appointme...
Mar 10, 2021
Concerns raised about discharges at state-run hospital
Part of the state-run Zambarano Hospital Burrillville campus. Photo courtesy of the RI Film & Television Office BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) - Disability rights organizations as well as public official...
Mar 05, 2021
Despite high infection rate, Providence vaccination rate low
Syringes containing COVID vaccine ready to be administered at a municipal clinic in Warwick March 1, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence has had among the highest...
Mar 05, 2021
RI Supreme Court upholds 2013 sentence in daughter’s death
Jorge DePina is sentenced in the beating death of his daughter, Aleida May 16, 2018. Pool photo by Sandor Bodo / The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Supreme Court has uphel...
Mar 04, 2021
