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  • 2 weeks ago | newsnationnow.com | Kate Wilkinson |Sarah Doiron

    PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — For Noah White, attending Pawtucket Red Sox games was about spending time with his father. The Providence native told NewsNation affiliate WPRI that he fondly remembers frequenting McCoy Stadium with his dad as a child. White and his father were even there to witness the end of the longest professional baseball game in history on June 23, 1981. The historic game against the Rochester Red Wings began on April 18.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.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.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.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.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kate Wilkinson

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Protect Our Healthcare RI, a coalition of consumer and nonprofit organizations, unveiled a new factbook report Friday that stresses the importance of federal and state Medicaid spending. The “Medicaid Matters for Rhode Island” factbook also highlights the significant impact that President Donald Trump’s proposed spending cuts would have on the state’s health care system.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kate Wilkinson

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — There are at least 179 cameras in Rhode Island that take photos of every car that goes by. “They’re just taking a photo of the license plate and the vehicle,” Warwick Police Chief Colonel Bradford Connor explained. The city has had Flock Safety cameras installed for roughly two years. Since then, Connor said they’ve been used not only to catch criminals, but also to find missing people, like a young Warwick girl last year.

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Josh Fenton

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