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Newport -
An 81-year-old Rhode Island woman has stepped forward as the Powerball's latest mega-million winner. According to reports, this win is the third largest in the history of Powerball, and the largest in Rhode Island.
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Providence -
On Thursday Rhode Island Rep. Arthur Handy introduced a new piece of legislation to both House and Senate which, if passed, would introduce Rhode Island as an equal-marriage state.
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An 8-year-old boy in Rhode Island was assigned a hat project at Tiogue School in Coventry last week. The boy chose to do a patriotic theme for his hat and subsequently the hat was banned from the school.
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"Flooding of historic proportions" is happening in the State of Rhode Island, stated Governor Carcieri. Pres. Obama has declared large portions of the state disaster areas, which allows FEMA teams to deploy.
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Calling the Rhode Island truancy court system “devoid of due process,” the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class-action lawsuit against a group of judges and school officials in six school districts, including Providence, the state capital.
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An extraordinary cat living in a Rhode Island nursing home has been accurately predicting the upcoming deaths of patients for the past five years.
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Clairborne Pell, a senator from Rhode Island and the creator of the Pell Grant has died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 90.
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Teen Dating Violence is a silent epidemic in schools across the country. Now, Rhode Island has joined hands with Texas mandating that schools provide certain policies and training against the deadly disease. Could a new national trend be underway?
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When a Providence Rhode Island storeowner asked to see the Social Security number of a customer he suspected of being in the country illegally, a firestorm was touched off that may result in his being charged with a hate crime.
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CBS News blogger Maria Gavrilovic posts in her “From The Road” blog from Providence, Rhode Island where she follows the campaign trail of Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama.
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Former MLB star, Curt Schilling, employs hundreds in Rhode Island.
Louise White, the winner of the third largest Powerball jackpot ever, of Newport, Rhode Island, set up a trust to provide "distance" to her winnings and "avoid complications," her lawyers and financial planner say.
What are the friendliest places to launch a small business? According to 6,022 small entrepreneurs and job creators, if you live in Idaho and Texas, the welcome wagon will come out for you. But if you happen to call California, Vermont or Rhode Island...
Desert Island Discs celebrates its 70th birthday
 A wildlife recovery centre on Vancouver Island says it is overrun with starving animals.
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