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Her story, women who attended the luncheon said afterward, highlighted universal themes — a cycle of abuse, control and power — except for one detail that made it stand out: Her ex-husband is the singer R. Kelly. “I did not know that this charming man was going to become my cunning enemy,” Drea Kelly, a dancer and choreographer, told the crowd.

Rhode Island business groups are asking state lawmakers not to emulate Massachusetts' tax on companies whose workers receive public health insurance, saying it has had "devastating" and "nightmarish" economic consequences there.Grocers, home-care providers, restaurant chains and some hospitals are among the business interests fighting the plan in Gov. Gina Raimondo's budget to charge companies with at least 300 employees a 10-percent fee on the wages of Medicaid-enrolled workers. The [...]

Families attend a Purim festival, where youngsters dressed in costumes, at Temple Beth-El in Providence Wednesday evening. A Jewish holiday, Purim commemorates the defeat of a plot to massacre Jews in ancient Persia. 

The House Judiciary Committee also heard from State Police Col. James Manni and other advocates for bills Gov. Gina Raimondo and Atty. Gen. Peter Neronha are pushing to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and guns on school grounds.

Members of the Senate Finance and Senate Judiciary committees held a joint hearing on the 170-page proposal and raised several concerns.

Organized in response to an attack against a gender non-binary couple at The Avery in Providence.

PROVIDENCE -- The high temperature is expected to reach 51 degrees in Providence today, but it's likely to be a little cooler than that by 5:58 p.m. when spring arrives.Clouds will increase through the day and the temperature is expected to drop to an unspringlike 31 degrees overnight."A coastal storm impacts the region late Thursday into Friday with periods of rain, heavy at times and strong winds. Strong winds continue into Saturday alongwith a shot of [...]

NORTH PROVIDENCE -- The two people involved in a fatal stabbing Tuesday in North Providence were a father and son, according to police.Police are now describing the son, who was still at Rhode Island Hospital as of Wednesday morning, as the suspect in the case; his father was found dead after police responded to a call for an unresponsive man at 8 Gale Court. [...]

HOUSTON -- In recent months, NASA has explored the smallest object ever orbited and the most distant body ever encountered -- and found that both worlds are weirder than anyone could have imagined. The 800-foot-wide asteroid Bennu, which is currently being studied by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, produces strange plumes of dust particles. Principal investigator Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, called the discovery "one of the biggest [...]

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his feud with the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, calling him "a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!" Trump's broadside on Twitter comes as George Conway, a conservative lawyer and frequent critic of the president, has publicly questioned the president's mental health in recent days. "George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY [...]