Providence, RI (WLNE) - Five Rhode Island towns will receive more than $100,000 each to hire more police officers. The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that it is awarding more than $139 million nationwide as part of the…
Providence, RI (WLNE) - A Woonsocket man will go to prison for more than 19 years on child pornography charges. The U.S. Department of Justice said he has a 12-year history of similar charges. A federal judge sentenced 47-year-old…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A survey among members of the Rhode Island Bar Association found discrimination in the state’s legal system, with nearly half of the survey’s participants saying they witnessed or experienced discrimination in the workplace and in state…
North Kingstown, RI, Westerly, RI, Foster, RI (WLNE) - The National Weather Service confirmed Sunday that three tornadoes touched down in Rhode Island on Saturday evening. These are the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE)- Governor Dan McKee officially summitted a plan for immediate investments into Rhode Island's families, workers, and small businesses Thursday. "Rhode Island is the only state in the northeast that has not…
New Shoreham, RI (WLNE) - The United States Geological Survey confirms that a 2.6 magnitude earthquake happened early Sunday off the coast of Rhode Island. The quake was centered 43 kilometers (about 27 miles) SSE of Block Island. It happened…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - On Monday, National Grid crews were stationed across the state working to restore power to tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders who were left in the dark when Tropical Storm…
JOHNSTON, RI (WLNE)- Rhode Island's second Market Basket location is now open for business. The new location is off of Hartford Avenue in Johnston. The Massachusetts based supermarket chain says the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The State of Rhode Island on Wednesday launched a new initiative to address the overdose epidemic in communities of color and other historically underserved groups disproportionately impacted by the overdose…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The Rhode Island Department of Health announced Friday that third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be available for some immunocompromised Rhode Islanders starting Saturday. Only those who are considered moderately to severely immunocompromised…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - Community spread of the coronavirus is now considered substantial by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Monday's data shows. According to RIDOH, the state's percent positivity rate for the…
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE) - The right two lanes of I-95 North at Jefferson Boulevard were briefly blocked Tuesday evening when four cars were involved in a crash. Rhode Island State Police confirm they responded to reports of a four-car crash…
JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man is planning a 19-mile swim from Block Island to Jamestown later this month to raise money for a nonprofit that works to keep…
President Joe Biden on Monday stood in solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who protested over the weekend about shortages and rising prices for food and medicine amid the coronavirus pandemic in what's being called an unprecedented rejection of the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – On Tuesday, Governor Dan McKee lifted the mask mandate in the Ocean State both indoors and outdoors at most places for fully vaccinated people. The announcement comes after the…
A man who killed a manager and wounded two workers at a Long Island grocery store was a “troubled employee” who had been reprimanded in recent months for threatening and sexually harassing colleagues, police said Wednesday. Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, a shopping cart…
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE) – High wind gusts ripped through Rhode Island Tuesday morning knocking thousands of people’s power out and taking down trees and lawn furniture with it. At the peak of the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – As eligibility expanded for Rhode Islanders 65 and older, many hit roadblocks while trying to schedule an appointment Monday morning. State-run vaccination appointments are currently live…
Playing for the first time since March 9, 2013, the Providence College men's basketball team defeated the UConn Huskies, 70-59, on Wednesday, February 10…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLNE) – Governor Gina Raimondo’s confirmation as Secretary of Commerce is now facing some opposition. Senator Ted Cruz placed a hold on the confirmation after Raimondo declined to promise specifically to keep certain companies on a U.S. trade…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove President Donald Trump from office was blocked Monday by Republicans. Democrats in the House are pushing Pence and the Cabinet to oust…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The Rhode Island State Police Department released a statement in reaction to Wednesday's storming of the Capitol building in Washington D.C. Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of the Department of Public Safety,…
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Members of rescue services search in the debris of a collapsed building for survivors in Izmir, Turkey, early Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. A strong earthquake struck Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of…
