John F. Kennedy, Jr
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, USA: John F. Kennedy, Jr., seen here in a 1983 file picture, in cap and gown awaits commencement exercises at Brown Univsersity. (UPI Photo/Files)
Latest Headlines
An average of 13 U.S. workers die on the job every day while an additional estimated 137 die each day from occupational diseases, AFL-CIO officials say.
The Delaware Senate Tuesday gave final legislative approval to a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.
A Roman Catholic bishop from Massachusetts was arrested for alleged drunken driving near his Rhode Island vacation home, police said.
It's spring, and the U.S. Supreme Court is lifting a mighty hammer. When the justices bring that big hammer down, they may change forever the way the races interact in the United States, and may forever redefine the millennia-old definition of marriage.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chaffee signed into law two bills allowing same-sex couples to marry, making the state the 10th to recognize such marriages.
Fans including the Library of Congress cheered and honored U.S. folk singer Pete Seeger, who turned 94 Friday.
Female DNA was found on at least one of the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon but it was unclear what that means, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Same-sex civil unions, legalized by Colorado lawmakers in March, will be offered starting Wednesday with midnight parties planned statewide, advocates said.
A 28-foot shark that apparently died of natural causes washed up on a Rhode Island beach Sunday afternoon, wildlife officials said.
"Argo" actor-director-producer Ben Affleck will receive an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island's Brown University, the Ivy League school said.
