Starting November 23, 2016 through November 27, 2016 the Rhode Island State Police, through funding obtained by the Department of Transportation Office on Highway Safety, will be participating in the following enforcement efforts during busiest travel time of the year, the Thanksgiving Holiday: • “Click It or Ticket Campaign” a nationwide program sponsored by the […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, R.I.- Councilwoman Jo-Ann Ryan (Ward 5) will host a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, November 28th to celebrate the opening of a new recreation center at Pleasant View Elementary School. The neighborhood recreation center will serve students from kindergarten through high school, with programming until 9:00 pm on weeknights and weekend hours on Saturdays. […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo and First Gentleman Andy Moffit will host a Christmas Tree Lighting and Holiday Celebration on Thursday, December 1, 2016 at the Rhode Island State House. The event is open to all Rhode Islanders and their families and will feature performances from the Governor’s Own 88th Army Band, among […]readmore
Se ha comprobado que el nuevo fármaco llamado Repatha, reduce el colesterol malo o LDL a niveles casi inéditos en las personas. Por primera vez, un nuevo medicamento que se suministra junto con las estatinas reductoras del colesterol ha demostrado capacidad para reducir la placa que obstruye las arterias, lo que permitiría disminuir parte de […]readmore
En el Día Mundial de la diabetes, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) alerta sobre la enfermedad considerada una de las principales causas de muerte. El 14 de noviembre se celebro el Día Mundial de la Diabetes y se ha convertido en la fecha en la que los diferentes países del mundo toman conciencia […]readmore
Por Ivonne Sánchez Los oídos de los jóvenes están en peligro. Así lo afirman varios expertos de la audición que han observado un incremento de pérdida auditiva en esta población. Se calcula que en el mundo, 43 millones de jóvenes entre 12 y 35 años de edad presentan discapacidades auditivas. NOTA: Para escuchar el programa, […]readmore
Por RFI La Organización Mundial de la Salud estipula que el virus del zika, culpable de provocar graves anomalías cerebrales en los fetos, ya no es una emergencia de salud pública mundial. Brasil, que es el país más afectado por el virus, se indigna y anunció que mantendrá el estado de emergencia sanitaria en todo […]readmore
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is moving forward to open an additional section of two-way traffic on the Apponaug Circulator project as it continues to transform a congested and outdated urban circulator system into a more efficient, safer and accessible facility for the City of Warwick. These changes will relocate the main flow […]readmore
Providence – Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that Juan «Cookie» Rivera (age 51), of Providence, pleaded nolo contendere before Superior Court Justice Joseph Montalbano to 51 counts of violating the Uniformed Controlled Substances Act, including delivery of heroin, fentanyl, crystal meth, and cocaine. Under the terms of the plea, Rivera was sentenced to 30 years […]readmore
State Police from the Dartmouth barracks responded to reports of a wrong-way operator on Route 195 in Fairhaven, which resulted in the arrest of the operator in Wareham. Trooper Christopher Meleo observed a 2015 Nissan Altima travelling westbound on Route 195 in the eastbound travel lanes. Tpr Meleo, with his emergency lights activated, paralleled the […]readmore