Category Archives: Politics
Gubernatorial candidates lay out vision for Rhode Island
Former Rep. Joe Trillo (I), Governor Gina Raimondo (D), and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung (R) at the 2018 WPRI Gubernatorial Debate. Photo by Matt Allen. By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, The Associated Press PROVID...
Oct 16, 2018
ACLU: Judge sides with Rep Morgan regarding Google money request
By WPRO News and The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union says a judge has ordered the attorney general to waive thousands of dollars in fees for documents...
Oct 15, 2018
PODCAST- Sister of victim wants Trillo to apologize for using Fung crash in gov’s race
WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The sister of a man killed in a 1989 car crash involving GOP gubernatorial candidate Allan Fung tells WPRO’s Tara Granahan that indepen...
Oct 15, 2018
Warren DNA analysis points to Native American heritage
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) talks with reporters in Fall River. File Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - Responding to years of derision by President Donald Trump and other critics, Sen...
Oct 15, 2018
Candidates for Rhode Island governor prepare for 2nd debate
Former Rep. Joe Trillo (I), Governor Gina Raimondo (D), and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung (R) at the 2018 WPRI Gubernatorial Debate. Photo by Matt Allen. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's gubernatori...
Oct 15, 2018
The Hummel Report – Second Chance?
A former state senator who spent two years in federal prison on bank fraud charges has been working on behalf of the state judiciary over the past year as a bail commissioner, with a fee often paid in...
Oct 15, 2018
Fall River Mayor Correia facing federal fraud charges
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts mayor who was first elected at age 23 was charged Thursday with using investments in a company he formed as his "own personal ATM" to enj...
Oct 11, 2018
FBI chief says ‘usual process’ followed in Kavanaugh probe
Image via CNN By ERIC TUCKER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that the FBI's background investigation of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was lim...
Oct 10, 2018
NEW: Trillo details physical encounter with fellow lawmaker
Independent candidate for governor Joe Trillo is interviewed outside the WPRO studios on October 10, 2018. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Following revelations that he was involved with an al...
Oct 10, 2018
PODCAST: Trillo charged with assaulting teenaged Mattiello in the 1970s
Former State Rep Joeseph Trillo announces his independent run for governor with WPRO’s Matt Allen WPRO News Independent candidate for governor Joseph Trillo was charged with the ‘inadverte...
Oct 10, 2018
