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At noon every day — when the sun is directly overhead — the world's fleet of commercial maritime ships report their position, speed and weather conditions. It's the primary way ships track how much fuel they're burning and how to to use less of it, and they've been doing it this way for at least 200 years.Surely there's a better way, and the world's biggest tech firms are investing millions to figure it out before fuel prices spike under new [...]

Dr. Francois I. Luks, pediatric surgeon-in-chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, and a team of other physicians and professionals have led the way in the region with in-utero surgery to treat the birth defect spina bifida, a procedure that offers a better prognosis for an Attleboro boy who had the surgery while still in his mother's womb.

For the Rhode Island economy, the first three months of this year were not as robust as the first three months of last year, according to an analysis of 11 key indicators. Is the state's economy simply taking a pause after a good year? Or is Rhode Island on the precipice of a new recession?

Output of the 737 Max has continued at full tilt even though regulators grounded the single-aisle jet following a March 10 crash, the model's second fatal accident in five months.

Children built sand trays with mementos of people and pets who had died, a craft project designed to help them share their emotions and support one another, at Saturday's Family Day for Camp BraveHeart at the Save The Bay Center in Providence.

FALL RIVER, Mass. — An 87-year-old man was killed and a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out early Saturday morning inside a residence at 11 Palmer St., according to a fire official.Fall River firefighters were called to the two-story, wood-frame home at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, said Jason Burns, president of the city firefighters union.Firefighters reported seeing smoke and possible flames on arrival, he said.“The guys made a very quick stop," [...]

DENVER — Officials are warning legal immigrants that are working in Colorado's marijuana industry could jeopardize their legal status, after two people said they were denied U.S. citizenship because of their jobs. Although 10 states broadly allow its use and sale, federal law still bans marijuana.Attorneys representing the two legal immigrants from Colorado and Denver officials accused the Trump administration of quietly targeting immigrants seeking to [...]

CINCINNATI — DNA tests disproved a teenager's claim that he was an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago, the FBI said Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved.For a day and a half, a breakthrough seemed to be at hand when a teenager found wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky, on Wednesday identified himself as 14-year-old Timmothy Pitzen and claimed he had just escaped from two men in the Cincinnati area who had held him captive for [...]

PROVIDENCE — Taylor Swift knows all too well that "nothing good starts in a getaway car."The 29-year-old pop star invoked the lyrics of her own song, "Getaway Car," in response to a police chase Tuesday that ended with a stolen car crashing into the gates of her beachfront home in Westerly. Swift wasn't at home at the time.A fan of the [...]

Signs, parking, stairs and landscaping will make it easier for visitors to the grave of a Civil War hero.