Kate Wilkinson
Investigative Reporter at WPRI-TV (Providence, RI)
Investigative Reporter at WLWC-TV (Providence, RI)
Reporter @WPRI12. Former I-Team Reporter at WWLP. @Wheaton alum. NH expat. 🏳️🌈. She/her.
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4 days ago |
wpri.com | Elizabeth Turley |Kate Wilkinson
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Want to enjoy a craft beer - or perhaps a coffee milk cocktail - with your hot wiener? The new owners of Olneyville New York System have applied for permits to sell alcoholic beverages at the restaurant's Providence and Cranston locations.
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1 week ago |
wpri.com | Kate Wilkinson
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - House Republicans have announced a suite of bills cutting back renewable energy programs they say are driving up Rhode Islanders' energy bills. "Far too often, the utility is painted as the villain, but many of these cost increases stem from legislative mandates - laws passed by the General Assembly that forced utilities to buy expensive energy or fund inefficient programs," House Minority Leader Mike Chippendale said at a news conference Thursday.
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1 week ago |
wpri.com | Kate Wilkinson
Defense attorneys grilled a crash reconstruction expert on his methods Wednesday as Karen Read 's second murder trial pushed through its sixth week. Read, 45, is accused of backing her SUV into her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, 46, and leaving him to die on a snowy night in the front yard of another officer's home after she dropped him off at a party there in January 2022. Her lawyers say she was framed in a police conspiracy and that someone inside the home that night killed him.
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1 week ago |
wpri.com | Kate Wilkinson
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - For generations, Jennifer McDowell says, her family has been living with an incurable genetic disease. Now she's asking Rhode Island leaders to let her die with dignity. "I deserve the right to a peaceful death, preferably at home, surrounded by family and those who love me," she said in her testimony before the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
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2 weeks ago |
wpri.com | Kate Wilkinson
CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) - As U.S. House Republicans celebrate a razor-thin victory for President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," Democratic Senator Jack Reed said the legislation could leave tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders without health care. "This is the most deliberately damaging bill to the economy and to our health care system that I've ever seen," he said in a news conference Friday in Cranston.
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