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Three decades after being elected to Congress, Rhode Island’s senior U.S. senator is running again, in part to oppose President Trump
The shooter had a flareup of domestic disputes with their family in 2020, but investigators say they are still searching for a ‘trigger event’ closer to the shooting six years later
The shooting at Brown University leaves the state reeling, and the suspect’s body was found at a storage facility in New Hampshire
Michael Black describes lunging at the gunman inside Pawtucket’s Dennis M. Lynch Arena, helping jam the weapon and subdue the shooter as other bystanders rushed in — actions police say “undoubtedly prevented further injury” in a tragedy that left three dead and three critically wounded
Gunfire at a Pawtucket high school hockey game forces a painful reckoning about violence, division and responsibility
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