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A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Newport County from 7 p.m. Friday through 10 a.m. Saturday as snow moves into the region. The National Weather Service is forecasting 2 to 4 inches of snow for the area, with accumulation beginning mainly after 9 p.m. Friday. The advisory warns of slippery road conditions that […]

Here’s a look at what’s coming up on Wednesday, December 24, in Newport. Weather Forecast Today: A slight chance of showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a north wind 18 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with […]

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has directed five large-scale wind projects under construction off the East Coast to suspend their activities for at least 90 days, according to letters from the Interior Department obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, which provide new details on the government’s move to pause the […]

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general that sued the […]

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JEFF AMY Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University’s president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month. Questions surrounding Brown’s security policies have only intensified since the Dec. […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Brown University sophomore who was killed in an attack at the Rhode Island university was remembered Monday as “smart, confident, curious, kind, principled, brave,” at a funeral in her home state of Alabama. Hundreds gathered at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in downtown Birmingham to remember Ella Cook, 19. She and […]

Here’s a look at what’s coming up on Monday, December 22, in Newport. Weather Forecast Today: Sunny, with a high near 35. Northwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 31. West wind around 8 mph. Sun & Tide Information Sunrise: 7:08 a.m., […]

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the United States through a little-known pathway called the diversity immigrant visa. That program makes up to 50,000 green cards available every year by lottery to people from countries that weren’t well represented in the numbers of immigrant admissions to […]

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Investigators on Friday were trying to sort out why a former Brown University student allegedly opened fire on the campus decades after he dropped out and later gunned down an esteemed Massachusetts college professor he attended school with in Portugal in the 1990s. Claudio […]

The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority implemented Level II wind restrictions on two major Narragansett Bay crossings Friday afternoon, barring most commercial vehicles from the Newport Pell and Jamestown Verrazzano Bridges. The restrictions, announced just after noon, permit only automobiles, pickup trucks, flatbed trailers, and commercial buses to cross the spans. High-profile vehicles such […]