BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts House and Senate leaders agreed Friday to the state's most sweeping expansion of gambling in four decades - drawing immediate criticism from Gov. Deval Patrick, who said he can't sign the bill. The bill would authorize three casinos and two slot machine parlors, the latter of which would be competitively bid upon by the state's four racetrack owners.
NEWPORT - "I've always dreamed of playing at the Newport Folk Festival," Steve Martin said Friday night, "and tonight I am one step closer to that goal." He was joking, of course - the famous funny man was at George Wein's Newport Folk Festival, headlining the opening-night concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame before an estimated crowd of 2,300 people.
When Denny Ingram hauled one of his lobster pots in Narragansett Bay's East Passage last week, he found one lobster unlike any he had ever seen. It was golden on top and bright yellow on the sides.
State police used facial recognition technology to identify Cordero-Luciano -- who had presented a forged Puerto Rican license to a suspicious clerk at the Registry of Motor Vehicles -- because they could not get a clear set of fingerprints to compare with those on record in criminal data banks.
BARRINGTON -- Stuart Finney has cracked the Trompowsky attack. Now if he could only learn to sleep on airplanes. That's because, on Saturday, he and his father, Steven, will begin a 24-hour trek from Boston's Logan Airport to Bento Goncalves, Brazil, for a chess championship at the Pan American Youth Festival.
Summer fellowships give R.I. college students leg up on research
R.I. teens get a chance this summer to explore high-tech trades
PROVIDENCE -- City landlords and Realtors are threatening to file suit against the city for its recently approved $284-million tax levy for this year, saying they were potentially denied their due-process rights. The levy represents a 25-percent tax rate increase and a repeal of a tax break for some property owners.
Crowd on VIP alert at site of Clinton's NY wedding
Sen. Kerry says he mishandled yacht tax furor
R.I. Congressional District 1 candidates state positions on war, economy, energy and Washington
GOP accused of dragging out McConnell confirmation
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Tim Sypher says Pitino never mentioned abortion
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Rick Pitino never said a woman who claimed the Louisville basketball coach got her pregnant after a one-night stand had to get an abortion but did advise she "go out of town" to get medical care, his longtime aide told a jury Friday.
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