FILE - In this June 25, 2020 file photo, Carter Sims, 3, of Pine Island, Minn., runs past a mural at the George Floyd memorial outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis. A stretch of a Minneapolis street that includes the place…
JOHNSTON, R.I. (WLNE) – Residents in a Johnston neighborhood were calling for changes after another pedestrian was hit by a vehicle, in the same area, on Tuesday.…
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WLNE) - Woonsocket Police are investigating a homicide that occurred early Wednesday morning that left five children…
LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early Thursday as a life-threatening Category 4 storm.…
University of Rhode Island Press Release KINGSTON, R.I. - Junior transfer Malik Martin has received a transfer waiver from the NCAA and will be immediately eligible for the 2020-21 season, Rhode Island Head Coach David Cox announced Tuesday. The 6-6 Martin is the fourth transfer…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - As many colleges return to school via distance learning for the Fall semester, students are pushing back against paying full tuition.…
COVENTRY, R.I. (WLNE) - As the start of the school year inches closer, some superintendents in the state have concerns that their schools aren't yet safe to reopen. Following a presentation…
University of Rhode Island Press Release KINGSTON, R.I. - Rhode Island's front court depth for the 2020-21 season got a significant boost Monday, as sophomore transfers Makhi and Makhel Mitchell received waivers from the NCAA and will be immediately eligible for the Rams.…
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Much of Canada’s remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said. Canada’s 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf on the northwestern edge of Ellesmere Island…
EAST PROVIDENCE, RI (WLNE) - An 81-year-old cyclist has died after he was hit by a car while he was riding his bicycle Thursday morning in East Providence. Police responded to the scene on the Wampanoag Trail near Forbes Street…
WEST GREENWICH, R.I. (WLNE) - The family of a man killed in a fiery single-car crash early Wednesday morning is speaking out after their loss. 55-year-old Kenneth Norberg was traveling…
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WLNE) - A Fall River man who left the scene of a fatal crash in June 2018 was sentenced to serve 3-4 years in state prison earlier this week. On June 14, 2018 Irvin Dominguez Cruz, 40,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fending off accusations of stifling competition, four Big Tech CEOs — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are answering…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - Parents and teachers held a socially distanced vehicle protest outside of the Rhode Island Department of Education Monday afternoon. The…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two voters’ rights groups in Rhode Island filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the state’s vote-by-mail witness and notary requirements, saying the rule unnecessarily puts people’s health at risk during the coronavirus pandemic. The complaint was…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE): Providence Police have identified the man they say spray-painted swastikas on gravestones at Providence College on Monday night. According to police, Keveon Gomera, 26, was…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean group launched hundreds of thousands of leaflets by balloon across the border with North Korea overnight, an activist said Tuesday, despite Pyongyang repeatedly warning it that it will retaliate against such actions.…
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WLNE)-- As a national reckoning over statues and monuments--and the history behind them-- continues to fuel controversy, a pair of figurines deemed "insensitive' have been removed…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rodrigo Pimentel was 10 months old when his parents brought him here from Portugal. "They’ve wanted nothing more for me than of course, to be part of this…
By the Associated Press Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody spread around the United States on Friday. Protests were largely peaceful as demonstrators marched in the streets from Los Angeles to New York, but in…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE): A handful of restaurants are coming together to express concerns with the Governor allowing indoor dining starting June 1st. The owners of Fortnight Wine Bar, Big King, North Oberlin, and Birch signed a letter in response to…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Cinco de Mayo looked a little different this year due to the coronavirus. It’s usually one of the busiest day’s for Rhode Island’s Mexican restaurants,…
It was the first meeting of the joint COVID-19 Emergency Spending Task Force Thursday but lawmakers ran into a conflict after the House Minority Leader wanted…
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- A 23-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty to charges of cyberstalking and receipt of child pornography in federal court today, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Aaron Weisman. Prosecuters said Pritkumar Tarunkumar Patel befriended four minors, three…
