Category Archives: Local News
RI delays start of school 2 weeks to aid virus preparations
RI Education Commissioner Anglica Infante-Green during Wednesday’s weekly coronavirus briefing at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence as Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a delay in the st...
Aug 12, 2020
Raimondo announces delay in start of school year
Governor Gina Raimondo. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island will delay the reopening of public schools by two weeks, to Sept. 14, to give educators more time t...
Aug 12, 2020
AG: Resident faces stiffer hate crime penalties if convicted
Members of Black Lives Matter RI take a knee August 11, 2020 in a rally outside the home of a Barrington man facing a hate crime prosecution following a confrontation with a neighbor from the Middle E...
Aug 11, 2020
Biden selects California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden during the second night of democratic debates. By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and WILL WEISSERT, The Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Ha...
Aug 11, 2020
Brown University delays campus return over virus concerns
The Van Wickle Gates at Brown University. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Brown University is delaying a return to in-person instruction until October, citing high coro...
Aug 11, 2020
Health officials: 1 additional death, 176 cases of COVID-19
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island registered one more death from COVID-19 and 176 newly reported positive cases over the weekend, state health officials said Monday. The state Department of Health ...
Aug 10, 2020
Man’s body is found in Providence park
Police scour the area along the edge of Roger Williams Park near the Providence – Cranston line where a man’s body was found August 10, 2020. He later died at Rhode Island Hospital, and po...
Aug 10, 2020
Teen killed, driver charged in Block Island crash
photo by Timothy J. Quill via Wikimedia Commons NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. (AP) - A Connecticut teen was killed in a single-car car crash on Block Island Sunday and the young driver involved is facing DUI cha...
Aug 10, 2020
New measures on travelers, bars and large parties imposed
Gov. Gina Raimondo in her weekly coronavirus briefing on August 5, 2020 with Health Dir. Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RI Education Commissioner Anglica Infante-Green. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO New...
Aug 05, 2020
RI visitors face quarantine order in Massachusetts
By STEVE LeBLANC and MARK PRATT, The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - The number of new COVID-19 cases has ticked up in Massachusetts. On Tuesday, the state reported 438 newly confirmed cases and 108 ne...
Aug 05, 2020
