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  • Police say a 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home has been found in Providence and is "in good health."
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  • Gay marriage
  • Gay couples in Minnesota and Rhode Island began exchanging vows Thursday.
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  • The U.S. Justice Department has found that a Providence vocational school ran what amounted to a sweatshop involving developmentally disabled students.
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  • A Rhode Island TV station says a woman threw a rock, waved a baseball bat and urged her dogs to attack a news crew reporting on a kindergarten graduation party shooting.
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  • Police in Providence are searching for a group of youths who showed up uninvited to a kindergarten graduation party and shot one of the guests.
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  • Action News has learned that a missing college student from Skippack, Montgomery County has been found in North Carolina.
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  • Missing student Matthew Royer
  • As the search continues for the missing student, police say it is possible the young man may have 'voluntarily' disappeared.
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  • Missing student Matthew Royer
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  • Missing student Matthew Royer
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  • Pennsylvania State Police say they have confirmed a new sighting of the car belonging to a missing college student who vanished while driving home to Skippack Township, Montgomery County.
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  • Gay marriage
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  • Gay marriage
  • Rhode Island has become the nation's 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed.
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  • Body found in RI park may be that of Brown student Sunil Tripathi
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  • Body found in RI park may be that of Brown student Sunil Tripathi
  • The Rhode Island medical examiner's office has determined that a body found in Providence is that of Sunil Tripathi.
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  • Body found in RI park may be that of Brown student Sunil Tripathi
  • The Rhode Island medical examiner's office is trying to determine whether a body found in Providence is that of a missing Brown University student.
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  • Body found in RI park may be that of Brown student Sunil Tripathi
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  • Search for Sunil Tripathi
  • The family of missing Pa. man, Sunil Tripathi, are asking for the public's help in finding the missing Brown University student.
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  • The University of Rhode Island ended a lockdown after about 2½ hours Thursday
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  • Sunil Tripathi
  • A newly released surveillance video shows a man matching the description of a missing student from Bryn Mawr.
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  • The family of a Brown University student missing since March 16 is appealing to area businesses to turn over surveillance footage.
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  • A Radnor Township native went missing from Brown University in Rhode Island and his family spoke out to Action News.
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  • As electricity returns and highways reopen, some Northeast residents tried to get back to their weekday routines Monday following the massive snowstorm that had millions digging out from New York to Maine.
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  • Two men accused of stealing the identities of terminally ill people to reap $30 million from insurance companies and brokerage houses pleaded guilty Monday, several days into their trial under, and face prison sentences of up to 10 years each.
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  • There were jack-o'-lanterns a'-plenty.
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  • A former college student in Rhode Island has been ordered to serve two months of home confinement for killing a rabbit with a hockey stick and using its body as a puck.
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  • The bodies of three women were pulled from a car submerged for hours in Newport Harbor on Friday, and police believe the driver apparently missed a turn in the dark.
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  • Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling might have to sell or give up the famed blood-stained sock he wore on the team's way to the 2004 World Series championship to cover millions of dollars in loans he guaranteed to his failed video game company.
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  • A Rhode Island woman has been accused by her neighbors of violating an animal-noise ordinance by training her cockatoo to cuss.
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  • The Rhode Island native who made it to the top 10 on last season's "American Idol" will be in Providence for the show's summer tour.
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  • A group of hardcore fans of British rock band The Who will finally redeem tickets for a canceled 1979 Rhode Island show.
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  • Gray's Store in Rhode Island brought in customers for years with its old-fashioned marble soda fountain, cigar and tobacco cases, and Rhode Island johnny cakes.
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  • The "Jaws" beer is going retro.
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  • Following calls for the removal of football coach Joe Paterno's statue from the Penn State campus, some students have begun a vigil to protect it from vandals.
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  • This is the statue of former Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno seen as it once stood outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa.
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  • A Penn State spokesman says a decision on the fate of a statue of late football coach Joe Paterno will be made within days.
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  • Perhaps there's luck in their genes.
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  • Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said Friday that the collapse of his 38 Studios video game company has probably cost him his entire baseball fortune, and he placed part of the blame on Rhode Island officials, including Gov. Lincoln Chafee.
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  • Viola Davis addressed graduating seniors Thursday at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up.
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  • Rhode Island airport officials say a man whose child unknowingly had gun parts and ammunition hidden inside stuffed animals in his carry-on bag was involved in a custody dispute.
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  • Quahog, R.I., the fictional hometown of Peter Griffin and his dysfunctional "Family Guy" relatives, is coming to life.
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  • A political novice no more, Kathleen Kane won her party's nomination that could make her the first Democrat and the first woman to be elected as Pennsylvania's attorney general.
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  • Vote 2012
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  • Mitt Romney has completed a five-state sweep of Republican presidential primaries.
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  • Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in an investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting $500 million last year are receiving $230 million of that money.
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  • Amtrak
  • An Amtrak train was traveling from Boston to Washington when its front wheels came off the tracks in North Kingstown.
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  • Mega millions
  • Rhode Island's lucky lottery streak continues, with a Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000 sold in Providence.
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  • RI Powerball lottery winner
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  • RI Powerball lottery winner
  • She slept with the winning ticket in her Bible until coming forward to claim the sixth-largest U.S. prize on Tuesday.
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  • Meryl Streep has donated $10,000 to a charter school in the struggling Rhode Island city of Central Falls.
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