New England Patriots New York Jets Leigh Bodden
Journal photos / Glenn Osmundson
Leigh Bodden celebrates one of his three interceptions for the Patriots on Sunday -- a first-quarter pick that he returned 53 yards for a touchdown.

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Robin McDuffie

Two years ago, Robin McDuffie and her family often spent $150 a night for five meals at a favorite Spanish restaurant. Then her husband lost his mortgage-company job. Now, McDuffie spends a little more for a week's worth of groceries -- with money from the state.


Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist

PROVIDENCE -- State education officials have unveiled an ambitious plan to increase student proficiency, revamp failing schools, improve teacher quality and shrink gaps between low-income and middle-income students, even as the state struggles to dedicate enough resources to public education.


WASHINGTON -- Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin on Sunday disputed key details of Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's account of their 2007 communication about whether the congressman should take Communion, given his support for abortion rights.

Rhode Island House Majority Leader Gordon Fox

On the field, the playoff-bound Red Sox were putting on a power display, slugging six home runs in a September baseball game against Baltimore. From his seat near home plate at Fenway Park, R.I. House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox was part of another power tableau...


Rhode Island's U.S. senators Saturday endorsed an overhaul of the nation's troubled health-care system. Reform will give Rhode Islanders better care for less money, said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse after a vote on the bill in the Senate. But it won't just benefit patients, added Sen. Jack Reed, who also issued a statement Saturday.

PROVIDENCE -- Supreme Court Justice Paul A. Suttell says the court has no immediate plans to implement a controversial law that would allow people to hire retired judges to preside over private trials in civil cases.

CRANSTON -- Karen Verrengia calls it the $90,000 mistake. Heating costs at Hugh B. Bain Middle School went up dramatically during 2007, so much that she looked at the meters and then started faxing the gas company.

The Jubilee Center for the Performing Arts

PROVIDENCE -- When Judy Perry looks out at the Manton Heights Housing Complex, she sees a cluster of brick-faced apartment buildings that are home to at least 100 boys and girls ages 5 through 12.




Rhode Islanders: Find the date for the H1N1 swine flu clinic at your school (last updated 10/30/2009):

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URI Rams Delroy James
Journal photo / Connie Grosch
Delroy James had 21 points to lead URI past Holy Cross on Sunday.





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Art Lake

SMITHFIELD -- One of Channel 10's original newscasters died early Sunday morning. Arthur E. Lake, known as Art Lake to just about everyone, died surrounded by his family. The legendary WJAR-TV anchorman and weatherman was 85.





The big news coming out of Saturday's Rhode Island Philharmonic concert was the return of German cellist Alban Gerhardt, who gave a wonderfully heartfelt performance of the dreamy Elgar Concerto.