A travel ban has been issued starting at 7 p.m. tonight by Gov. Dan McKee for Rhode Island drivers ahead of blizzard that is expected to wallop the state with more than 20 inches of snow. In addition to the travel ban, the state has also closed four key bridges – Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge, Mount Hope…
Colby O’Brien, the new executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness, seen outside the organization’s office on the fourth floor of CIC Providence. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) After five months without a permanent leader, the Providence-based nonprofit tasked with collecting and analyzing the data on Rhode Island’s unhoused population has…
The trans suspect who opened fire at a Rhode Island ice hockey rink on Monday killed his ex-wife and adult son, authorities said, while his daughter alleged he had a “vendetta” against the family. Robert Dorgan, 56, fatally shot his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket as well as his…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The shooting at Brown University exposed a major gap for a recently opened “real time crime center” in Providence that costs over $1 million, but didn’t include surveillance video from the college campus. Two people were killed and nine others were injured during a shooting at Brown…
A Grammy-nominated musician was struck and killed by a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police said. Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them. He was inducted into the…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration had violated his previous court order by implementing a nearly identical policy that again made state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement a condition for receiving grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode…
(Reuters) -A group of labor unions, nonprofits and solar companies sued the Trump administration on Monday over its cancellation of a $7 billion Biden-era grant program that aimed to expand solar energy to low-income communities. The complaint, filed in federal court in Rhode Island, alleges that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Lee…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an effort by the Trump administration to force states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in emergency and disaster aid is unlawful and unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, sided with 20 Democratic-led states…
The US unemployment rate has ticked up in recent months to its highest level since 2021. Meanwhile, job seekers say it’s taking them longer to find work as employers pull back on hiring. In August, the economy created 22,000 jobs, a decline from the revised previous month’s 79,000, according to data from the US Labor…
The Trump administration suffered two legal defeats within hours on Friday, with a federal judge in Rhode Island ruling the president’s executive order on “gender ideology” can’t be applied to National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grantees. Separately in California, a panel of Ninth Circuit judges affirmed the administration must hand over documents related to…