WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): Note: For races in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, visit the ABC6 Election Results page here. 1:27 a.m. President Donald Trump has won four of Nebraska’s five electoral votes, while Democrat…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE)-- Protesters returned to the streets of Providence for a second night, marching down Broad Street and Elmwood Avenue before confronting police at the Cranston line. Numbering nearly fifty, protesters marched through the South Elmwood and Elmwood neighborhoods,…
This 2004 image provided by the University of Rhode Island's Institute for Exploration and Center for Archaeological Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Ocean Exploration shows the shoes of one of the possible victims of the…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) – Thousands of families in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are waking up in the dark this morning after storms rolled through the area late last night sending trees and…
CRANSTON, R.I. (WLNE): A Cranston man is back home from the hospital after a few strangers are credited with saving his life. On Sunday, Jim Ladouceur had a heart attack while…
COVENTRY, R.I. (WLNE) – Thousands of Rhode Islanders woke up to downed trees and no power or wifi. In West Warwick, branches snapped off of a tree on Harley Street blocking the road. In…
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE): A Cranston man is fighting for his life after having a heart attack while he was riding his bike. If it wasn't for complete strangers, the 48-year-old…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – Several dozen protesters took to the streets of downtown Providence on Sunday. For the second Sunday in a row, they were calling on Rhode Island’s senators to do…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — No arrests or injuries were reported after Wednesday night’s protest in downtown Providence, which blocked traffic to an on-ramp of I-95. Now Rhode Island State Police…
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…
