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Marisa Cloutier-Bristol, of North Attleboro, was stunned to learn in 2017 that the Providence hospital's fertility clinic had kept a cryopreserved embryo of hers in storage since 2004, the year she underwent in vitro fertilization treatment. Now 45, she says: "It’s like grieving a child that I could’ve had that I don’t have. I feel completely and totally robbed."

Rep. Stephen Ucci and Jerry Sahagian, a founding member of The Preserve at Boulder Hills, in Richmond, lobbied last year for permission to import elk to the exclusive shooting preserve. But the proposal drew confusion, surprise and controversy.

Dozens of mourners gathered in the field next to the Hugh B. Bain Middle School on a chilly Sunday afternoon at a vigil for Lauren Ise organized by the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence at the family's request. Ise was slain Wednesday in her home, two days after breaking up with her boyfriend, Michael T. Marrapese, who now faces a first-degree murder charge.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - New Zealand's coalition government plans to unveil gun law reforms within the next week in response to the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch last week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday. These could include restricting the military-style semiautomatic weapons that were used in the attacks, which left 50 people dead and some 40 injured, and that have been used in many of the recent mass shootings in the United States. [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company's technicians can find original reporting.The service, launched last year, is currently available in some 400 cities in the United States. But the social media giant said it has found that 40 percent of Americans live in places where there weren't enough local news stories to support it.Facebook [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Spring arrives Wednesday, but it might not feel like it until Sunday.The high temperature is expected to run a little below average for much of the week before climbing to 55 degrees under sunny skies on Sunday.The normal high temperature for this time of year is about 48 degrees, but today's high in Providence is expected to reach just 43 degrees under sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service. The temperature will drop into the 20s tonight. [...]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday left "multiple" people wounded, police said, adding that they are considering the possibility of a "terrorist motive." A manhunt was launched for the shooter.Police, including heavily armed officers, flooded the area after the shooting that happened in the morning on a tram at a busy traffic intersection in a residential neighborhood.Utrecht police said that trauma [...]

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island firefighters say they rescued two girls who got stranded in a bay over the weekend.Fire officials say the girls went paddling from a beach club in North Kingstown Saturday afternoon when the wind and tide pulled them out by the Jamestown Bridge. Officials say one of the girls ended up in the water.Firefighters responded and launched a boat to bring the girls back to Wickford Harbor. Paramedics evaluated both of the girls and [...]

The remarks of one resident in particular, Rob Cote, a frequent critic of city government, have drawn much attention since Cote spoke at a Feb. 25 meeting.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is not amused by the #FakeMelania conspiracy theories circulating on social media.He spun off a new theory on Wednesday to debunk the idea that there's a body double of his wife who steps in for her at times. The "fake news" did it, he claimed without evidence.Trump alleged in a tweet on Wednesday that photos of his wife had been altered to make them appear as though a look-alike accompanied him to Alabama last week to [...]