CVS Health to Fund Opioid Center of Excellence in Woonsocket PROVIDENCE, RI – In the last 8 years, more than 1,800 Rhode Islanders have died as the result of an overdose, one of the highest overdose rates in America. CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo and Governor Gina M. Raimondo today announced a partnership to open […]readmore
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Representative Jim Langevin joined Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03); Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development Ranking Member Susan Davis (CA-53); House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD-05); and Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) and Jared Huffman (CA-02) in introducing the Improving Access to Higher Education Act. This bill […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza will join BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) Chief Executive Officer Lauren Sanchez Gilbert Ed.D., Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness Dan Dobin, and summer program students, known as scholars, at Young Woods Elementary School to declare Thursday, July 13, 2017 Summer Learning Day. Press is invited to tour […]readmore
HITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son said Tuesday he did not tell his father about a meeting with a Russian lawyer last year, and also dismissed charges of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia as «ridiculous.» U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated Wednesday his belief that questions about links between his presidential […]readmore
SCITUATE, RI — Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of Public Safety, announces that members of the Rhode Island State Police Detective Division arrested a Coventry woman in connection with an investigation into a fatal hit-and-run pedestrian crash that occurred on July 3, 2017, on South Road in […]readmore
Providence – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency celebrated the recipients of four Brownfields grants in Rhode Island. This year, Rhode Island entities in Woonsocket received $600,000 for cleanup of brownfield sites, and the City of Providence received $200,000 for an Area Wide Planning grant. ARTech Hub LLC will receive two grants totaling $400,000 for cleanup […]readmore
JOHNSTON – A Woonsocket teenager was killed and two passengers in her car were injured after the car went off the road on Interstate 295 in Johnston and struck a tree around 2:30 p.m. yesterday. The driver, Lungpalinya Phouvong, 17, of 26 Cross St., Woonsocket, was taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where she later was […]readmore