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NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar thanked Fox News on Monday for condemning comments made on the network by weekend host Jeanine Pirro about the freshman Democrat's wearing of a traditional Muslim head covering.Fox said it "strongly condemned" Pirro's Saturday night commentary and said it had addressed the matter with her. Pirro did not apologize.On her show, Pirro noted that the Minnesota representative wears a hijab in apparent [...]

PROVIDENCE — Putting a close to an ugly decades-long legal dispute, the state Supreme Court affirmed a ruling throwing out defamation and a host of other claims against disgraced former Central Falls Mayor Charles D. Moreau.The high court on Monday concluded that Superior Court Judge Sarah Taft-Carter was right in rejecting allegations brought against Moreau by former city employees, librarian Thomas Shannahan and Police Chief Thomas Wilson, and two other library staff members. [...]

"In the early '60s there were 1,200 kids at Rogers, the Navy was a huge presence, and it was a totally different school than it is now," says Don Kaull, the one-time URI basketball player who was a huge star at Rogers High School back then.

PROVIDENCE — The campaign to keep abortion legal in Rhode Island now moves to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where at least five of the nine members have publicly taken stands in favor of the "codification" of the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Roe v. Wade.But one of the five — freshman Sen. Mark McKenney of Warwick — told voters last year, when he was challenging a progressive female incumbent in the September Democratic primary, that he [...]

The World Explorers Dual Language Academy is expected to open this fall with 280 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 6. Students will spend half of their day learning their subjects in English and the other half in Spanish.

NEWPORT — Charles Roberts recalled visiting the Portsmouth site that honors the contributions of the First Rhode Island Regiment, also known as the "Black Regiment," during the Battle of Rhode Island.When he was a child, the site was "just a rock," he said. Now, Patriots Park is home to a large monument that details the efforts of the regiment composed of black slaves, freed men and Native Americans to repel an advance by British forces in August 1778.The site was [...]

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — An 18-year-old student from South Kingstown High School has been charged with driving to endanger in a one-car crash that has left one of his passengers in critical condition.In a statement released Monday, police said Evan Conover, of 326 Pine Hill Rd., has been charged with two counts of driving to endanger, one resulting in personal injury and the other resulting in physical injury.He is scheduled for a felony screening in Washington County District [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lou Williams said it best after becoming the NBA's career leader in points off the bench."Any time you can say of all time next to your name, it's special," he said.The 13-year guard scored 34 points to pass Dell Curry as the Los Angeles Clippers routed the Boston Celtics 140-115 on Monday night for their fifth straight win.Williams came into the game needing 28 points to pass Curry, who had 11,147 bench points. He surpassed Curry with 9:53 [...]