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HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — Two high school students, one of them a juvenile girl, shot and killed a classmate and injured eight others at a charter school in a Colorado community that marked the 20th anniversary of one of the nation's worst school shootings just weeks ago.Douglas County sheriff's officials said Devon Erickson, 18, and a younger student walked into the STEM School Highlands Ranch Tuesday afternoon and opened fire on students in two classrooms, prompting [...]

HOPKINTON (AP) — The speaker of Rhode Island's House of Representatives is expressing reservations about communities in the state declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries.Burrillville and Hopkinton have passed resolutions saying they won't enforce new laws they feel infringe on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Other towns are considering similar measures in response to proposals for stricter gun control laws.Speaker Nicholas Mattiello is generally [...]

WASHINGTON - The White House formally asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller's report Wednesday, President Donald Trump's first use of the executive authority in the latest confrontation with Congress. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote in a letter to Congress that Trump had "asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials." Boyd wrote that Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler's push to hold Barr in [...]

CRANSTON — A fire at an Eleanor Slater Hospital building in the Pastore Center on Wednesday forced the evacuation of 39 patients.Randal Edgar, a spokesman for the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, said a fire broke out in an external wall between the second and third floors of the Adolph Meyer Building on Wednesday morning.Nobody was injured, and the 39 patients have been moved to the Arnold Conference Center, Edgar said. [...]

PROVIDENCE — Senesco Marine has been hired to build a crew transfer vessel at its North Kingstown shipyard that would be used by a $1-billion-plus offshore wind farm proposed in Rhode Island Sound.Ørsted, the developer of the 400-megawatt Revolution Wind project, announced an agreement on Wednesday with Windserve Marine, an affiliate of Senesco that will operate the new boat, which will be used to transport personnel for construction and maintenance of the wind farm. [...]

LONDON (AP) — Tired but beaming, Meghan and Prince Harry showed the public their baby son's face for the first time on Wednesday, and also revealed his name: Archie.The royal couple said their son, seventh in line to the British throne, is named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.Mountbatten-Windsor is a surname used by some members of the royal family.The couple did not choose an aristocratic title for the baby, who is not a prince but could have been given a [...]

PROVIDENCE — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Miriam Hospital a five-year, $2.4-million grant to study the value of a program designed to “help children from low-income families whose health is challenged by obesity,” according to a media release from the hospital.Based on UnitedHealth Group's “Join for Me” initiative, the Rhode Island program will involve Miriam’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research [...]

SHREWSBURY, Mass. — Alexander Viola, a former Shrewsbury middle school employee, has been sentenced to 10 years of supervised probation with conditions, after pleading guilty to traveling to Rhode Island in July 2016 with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.Viola, 32, was arrested in Cranston on July 12, 2016, after allegedly making plans to meet with someone he believed was a 15-year-old girl he communicated with online and via text messages [...]

BOSTON — America's oldest performing arts group is looking for a child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert.The Handel & Haydn Society had just finished its rendition of Mozart's "Masonic Funeral" at Boston's Symphony Hall on Sunday when a youngster blurted out loudly: "WOW!"Boston classical music station WCRB-FM captured the exuberance on audio. The [...]

BARRINGTON — A crew from Mystic Aquarium decided to euthanize a large bottlenose dolphin that became stranded on the edge of a salt marsh at Smith's Cove in Barrington.A Journal reporter said at 12:30 p.m. that the dolphin, which was dark gray and approximately 10 feet long, could be heard struggling to breathe through its blowhole. It was occasionally flapping its tail and lifting its head in an attempt to free itself.A man who described himself as the caretaker [...]