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NEWPORT — Kanohi is a Hawaiian crow that Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert met in a captive breeding program at the San Diego Park and Zoo in 2016.Ten years earlier, his species had disappeared in the wild, a victim of habitat loss and the introduction of invasive species, such as mosquitoes."He is quite an odd bird," Kolbert told the hundred or so people present Monday night at the Pell Center for International Relations at Salve Regina University, noting that he [...]

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PROVIDENCE — Before the official swearing in of Colonel James M. Manni as the 14th Rhode Island State Police superintendent, before the thunderous round of applause upon shaking Gov. Gina Raimondo's hand, there was a silence summoned by Father Christopher J. Murphy."Guide us as we work together to be stewards of your gifts," Murphy intoned before the hundreds gathered in the State House rotunda. "Especially the new superintendent."On Dec. 27, Raimondo announced Manni's [...]

Her roles in "Soap," "Who's the Boss?" and "Coach" made her a star, but she was one of the first professional actors at Providence's Trinity Rep.

Gov. Gina Raimondo's proposal to extend the state's 7-percent sales tax to lobbying, interior design and commercial building services — such as pest control in hotels and restaurants — drew armies of opponents to a State House hearing room on Thursday night.

In a major development in the fight to keep abortion legal in Rhode Island no matter what the U.S Supreme Court might do in the future, the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote Tuesday on a reworked bill to enshrine the Roe v. Wade ruling into state law.

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Growers are pushing for the machines as their labor pool shrinks.