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What’s Happening: Dragon and Mystical Creatures
WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — This weekend in What’s happening, our Ashley Erling is at Roger Williams Park Zoo, visiting the Dragons and Mythical Creatures exhibit. Each weekend, Ashley brings you around Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts for a look at what’s happening as part of our all new, expanded 12 News This Morning. Join us on Saturdays for […]
Local Resident Jen Campisi to Compete for Miss Rhode Island USA 2024 Crown
Excitement is building as Jen Campisi, a 25-year-old resident of Middletown, gears up to vie for the title of Miss Rhode Island USA 2024. The highly anticipated event is scheduled to take place on May 25 and 26, 2024, at the RI Convention Center in Providence, RI. Campisi, representing her...
Changes in wastewater billing are overdue in RI | Opinion
Richard Burroughs teaches in the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. He has served as a member of the board of Save The Bay and as a commissioner for the Narragansett Bay Commission. The Providence Journal very correctly points out how the health of Narragansett Bay...
Four Kittens Abandoned At Plainfield Humane Society
At 5:55 a.m., security footage showed the person abandoning the four gray and white kittens on the front porch of the Plainfield Area Humane Society. Staff brought the kittens in, described as "scared and cold", the Plainfield Area Humane Society said. The kittens were placed on a heating pad and...
Two juveniles charged in multiple break-ins and arsons, including one at CT church
State police have charged two juveniles in connection with several break-ins and fires that were ruled arson, including one that destroyed a church in Eastford last spring. The arrests stemmed from a lengthy investigation conducted by numerous law enforcement agencies, Connecticut State Police said in a statement Friday. On April 23, 2023, state police troopers responded to the Congregational ...
West Warwick man charged with illegally possessing firearm and 11 large capacity magazines
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE) — Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today a West Warwick man has been charged in Kent County Superior Court. 31-year-old Martin McLintock was charged with with illegally possessing a semi-automatic handgun and 11 large capacity magazines following his arrest by the Rhode Island State Police. He was charged on April 10 with one count of carrying a firearm in a vehicle without a license, one count of possession of large capacity magazines, and one count of possession of 10 grams or less of oxycodone.
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