PROVIDENCE, R.I (WLNE) - Attorney General Peter Neronha announced Monday that a total of eight Rhode Island contractors face felony and misdemeanor charges. Four contractors face felony charges while four more are facing misdemeanor charges in Providence District Court for…
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced a revised field of teams and schedule for the 2020 Air Force Reserve Tip-Off Tournament, which…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate as Republicans powered past Democrats’ boycott of the session. Democratic senators refused to show up in protest of the…
KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — The family of a Texas soldier whose on-base killing sparked calls in Congress for changes in the way the military handles sexual abuse and harassment is entitled to benefits, including compensation, because her death happened “in…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The Providence Police Department held a briefing Wednesday morning, where they released new footage showing the events that led up to the officer-involved moped crash on Sunday. The investigation…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - As questions continue to swirl over what happened with a moped accident that involved a Providence police officer, the Providence External Review Authority will…
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A monitor appointed to oversee the handling of sexual abuse claims at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire has resigned, accusing campus officials of thwarting his efforts. Jeffrey Maher was appointed as the school’s independent compliance overseer…
By Mark Sherman, Lisa Mascaro, and Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett presented her approach to the law as conservative and fair on Monday at the start of fast-tracked confirmation hearings, while…
By David Sharp, Associated Press SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mainers got their first opportunity to legally buy marijuana for recreational use, but a supply shortage was a potential buzzkill. Retailers blame the pandemic and a limited number of licensed…
By Todd Richmond, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor on Wednesday called in the National Guard ahead of an expected announcement about whether a police officer would face charges in the fatal shooting of a Black teenager…
By Mark Pratt, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The next phase of the Boston Public Schools reopening plan was delayed Wednesday because the city’s coronavirus positivity rate has climbed higher than 4%, Mayor Marty Walsh…
FILE - This Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook”…
By Danica Kirka and Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In the latest blow to the beleaguered film industry, the second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is temporarily shuttering its locations Thursday due to a lack of…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s tarnished Republican Party is hoping to rebound in a handful of U.S. House races but its candidates must overcome widespread loathing for President Donald Trump and voting trends that have made the nation’s most populous…
Independence supporters demonstrate with the Kanak flag outside a voting station in the Riviere Salee district of Noumea, New Caledonia, Sunday, Oct.4, 2020. Voters in New Caledonia, a French archipelago in the South Pacific, were deciding Sunday whether they want…
An employee of SinoVac works in a lab at a factory producing its SARS CoV-2 Vaccine for COVID-19 named CoronaVac in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. SinoVac's CEO says they have injected 90 percent of its employees and family…
PHOENIX (AP) — Cindy McCain has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president in a rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the Republican Party’s 2008 nominee. Trump has had a fraught relationship with John McCain’s family since he…
This September 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the company. Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if the single-dose vaccine can protect against the…
FILE - In this April 29, 2020, file photo, workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. During the deadliest days of the coronavirus outbreak in New…
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s legacy time for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Fulfilling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the fall election is as much about McConnell’s goal of securing conservative majority on…
By Mark Sherman, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died…
INDIANAPOLIS — A drug company says partial results from a study testing an antibody drug give hints that it may help mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients from needing to be hospitalized. Eli Lilly announced the results Wednesday in a…
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Richard Lardner, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump health appointee who is accused of trying to muzzle an important scientific publication in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic apologized Tuesday for a separate video in…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The Lincoln School in Providence confirms someone in the school community has tested positive for COVID-19. Ashley Rappa, Director of Marketing and Communications for the school, confirmed the positive case in an emailed statement. "While we…
