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While the city and school department struggle to present a balanced budget to the City Council for approval in less than two weeks, Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II was playing his own numbers games in Las Vegas over a long weekend respite.

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island’s forests, decimated by pest infestations, heat and drought in recent years, may be on their way to recovery this spring.Populations are down among several species of insects that were largely responsible for the deaths last year of large swaths of oak trees in the western half of the state, parts of the Sakonnet peninsula and pockets of other rural and [...]

2 students are in custody after rampage at K-12 charter school south of Denver

The increase would allow shows to claim a tax credit worth 30 percent of their Rhode Island-based production expenses instead of the current 25 percent.

PROVIDENCE — Highly controversial legislation to lock in the terms of expired teacher and municipal employee contracts is headed to final votes in the House and Senate on Thursday after a series of next-to-last votes that again put the "yes'' vote of Senator — and teachers' union VP — Valarie Lawson in the spotlight.Lawson, a Democrat, is a $78,710-a-year East Providence High School teacher, but it is her other role — as a $29,000 a year paid vice [...]

Wild turkeys are thriving after being reintroduced 40 years ago. The hunting limit was raised to two males this spring season. But the birds are notoriously hard to hunt. In 2016, though 1,163 turkey-hunting permits were sold in Rhode Island, only 122 turkeys were actually reported harvested, according to state records.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier and other military resources to send a message to Iran followed "clear indications" that Iranian and Iranian proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, a defense official told the Associated Press.The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said that the Pentagon approved the deployments and that U.S. forces at sea and on land were [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, media attack dog and all-around fixer for President Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence Monday for crimes including campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made on Trump's behalf.Cohen faces a 2 p.m. deadline to report to the Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville, a federal prison in the countryside 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of New York City. A minimum- [...]

PROVIDENCE -- The clouds will clear and the day will become mostly sunny, according to the National Weather Service.Expect a high near 63 degrees in Providence."High pressure will build across the region with a return to mostly sunny skies this afternoon," the Weather Service says.Showers should return late in the day Tuesday, mainly after 4 p.m. Otherwise, expect mostly sunny skies with a high near 67.Wednesday looks mostly sunny with a high near 64. [...]

President Trump on Sunday blamed the result of the Kentucky Derby on "political correctness," arguing that the horse that crossed the wire first should not have been disqualified. "The Kentuky Derby decision was not a good one," Trump said in a tweet, misspelling the word "Kentucky." "It was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did [...]