Louise White, an 81-year-old woman from Newport, Rhode Island, has won $336 million dollars in the third largest Powerball lottery of all time. White bought…

Less than a week after New York state legalized same-sex marriage, Rhode Island voted in favor of a bill to permit civil unions between gay and lesbian couples. If signed, the state will become the fifth state in the country to permit civil unions. The measure, which was voted in the senate 21-16, is said […]

CRANSTON, R.I. — A 27-year-old guard at the Adult Correctional Institutions has been arrested by state police after allegedly pretending to be his boss, department of corrections head A.T. Wall, on a page posted on Facebook.

*The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – the official name of Rhode Island – to many evokes painful reminders of the state’s prime role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. So voters next Tuesday will decide whether to change the name by dropping the words “and Providence Plantations,” reports the Associated Press. The issue […]

A Massachusetts woman has been charged with disguising herself as a man so she could rob her own 79-year-old grandmother.

A school board in Rhode Island has voted to fire all teachers at a struggling high school, a dramatic and controversial plan aimed at shoring up education in a poverty-ridden school district. On Tuesday night, the board approved the plan by Frances Gallo, superintendent at Central Falls School District, to discharge 88 teachers at Central […]