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Inequality. Bigotry. Poverty. They continue to challenge and divide the nation.

They test Marjorie Leary too. But the Portsmouth High School junior won’t let America’s problems overshadow its values. She sees them as motivation to fight for freedom and progress in her prize-winning Voice of Democracy audio-essay titled “In Order to Form a More Perfect Union.”

Le...


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The personal information of an estimated 132,000 Rhode Islanders was involved in a January cyberattack on Beacon Mutual Insurance, the Warwick-based workers’ comp company revealed this week.

Beacon is the third party vendor that a...


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In poetic punctuation to end Rhode Island’s 10th annual Quahog Week, the state is reopening a section of Narragansett Bay along the Portsmouth shoreline for the first time in half a century.

Saturday will be the first time the 462-acre area south of the Mount Hope Bridge has been open to shellfishing since 1975, according to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental...


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Some examples of games of chance: Craps, blackjack, Texas hold’em, roulette, and more recently, prediction markets, wherein people bet on things like geopolitical strife or what President Donald Trump might say during a press conference. 

To Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, there isn’t much difference between the classic means of losing money — dice an...


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Staring down another quarter of operating losses, Brown University Health executives are unwilling to contribute a share of the $4.9 million needed to keep Newport Hospital’s birthing center open.

“We want to see the money come from outside Brown Health,” Peter Markell, executive vice president and chief financial officer, said during a


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