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NEWS: UMass Dartmouth forms security task force following Marathon bombings
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. WPRO File Photo. WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – The college where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

NEWS: Ribbon-cutting for women’s health center at Providence VA
Ribbon-cutting at the new Women's Health Center at the Providence VA. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News A free-standing health center devoted to health care for women ve...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

NEWS: Body found in City Park identified as Warwick man
Warwick’s City Park. Image from Yelp.com WPRO Newsroom The body found in a trash barrel along a bike path in Warwick’s City Park Saturday has been identified as John “Jack” Fay...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

NEWS: After Boston bombing, RI Trooper ran into the heart of “mass devastation”
Rhode Island State Trooper Roupen Bastajian. Photo by Carolyn Cronin, WPRO News. By Carolyn Cronin and Kim Kalunian, WPRO News Rhode Island State Trooper Roupen Bastajian has been hailed as a hero for...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

REPORT: RI “might be slowly emerging” from recession
By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News Rhode Island “might be slowly emerging” from the recession. According to a report from the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC), the Current Economic ...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

NEWS: URI student missing since Thursday
WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press SKIPPACK, Pa. (AP) – Police are searching for a missing University of Rhode Island student who was traveling home to southeastern Pennsylvania last week, b...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

HEALTH: RI urges baby boomers to get tested for Hepatitis C
WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island's health department is encouraging baby boomers to get tested for Hepatitis C, saying adults born between 1945 an...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2013

NEWS: Powerball jackpot climbs to $600 million
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO Newsroom The estimated Powerball jackpot is up to $600 million, and people across Rhode Island are buying tickets and crossing their fingers. “If you hit it...
Cumulus Media May 17, 2013

NEWS: Unemployment drops to 8.8% in April
WPRO Newsroom For the tenth month in a row, Rhode Island’s unemployment rate has dropped, and this time it's down nearly two percent from April of last year. The Department of Labor Tr...
Cumulus Media May 16, 2013

NEWS: Masked man arrested after vandalizing local school
Joseph Howell. Photo from North Kingstown Police. WPRO Newsroom The masked man that vandalized a North Kingstown school was been arrested. According to police, Joseph Howell, 27, of North Kingstown wa...
Cumulus Media May 16, 2013





