Lincoln Chafee

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A divided Delaware state Senate voted Tuesday to make their state the 11th in the nation to allow same-sex marriage, after hearing hours of passionate testimony from supporters and opponents. The Senate's 12-9 vote sends the...

Delaware lawmakers will take up a gay marriage bill on Tuesday in a bid to make the state the 11th to allow same-sex couples to wed. The scheduled vote in the state's Democrat-controlled Senate follows the General Assembly's passage of the bill...

Weston students Brian Bosem, Camila Tussie and Jacob Wilentz got a big thrill recently when their documentary aired on C-SPAN. The eighth-graders at Falcon Cove Middle School took third in the network's nationwide StudentCam competition for their entry,...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is on a path to becoming the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry after a landmark vote in the state's Senate on Wednesday. The Senate passed gay marriage legislation by a comfortable 26-12...

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked a Rhode Island judge to dismiss a state economic development agency's lawsuit over its $75-million loan guarantee for his now-defunct video game company, calling claims he and fellow executives misled the...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Emergency crews and residents struggled to clear roadways and sidewalks from a storm that rampaged through the Northeast, dumping up to 3 feet of snow and bringing howling winds that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands....

Rhode Island's House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting up a crucial vote in the Senate on the controversial issue.  The state would become the 10th to recognize same-sex marriage, which is also...

Author's disclaimer: Today's piece may cause my center/right readers severe irritability, sleeplessness, and a strong desire to limit your cable television options to Fox. The antidote may not arrive until the midterm elections of 2014. Fiscal cliff...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, that warm and fuzzy time of year when adults engage in public verbal brawls over whether to call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree. Rhode Island’s governor, Lincoln Chafee, got so fed up with...

Your recent editorial argued that Question 6 is about equal rights and that "the gay marriage law strongly protects religious liberties" no matter what opponents say ("Gallaudet's mistake," Oct. 12). It seems disingenuous to argue that Maryland's gay...

About 100 employees of Big Huge Games, a Timonium-based maker of video games, lost their jobs this week as the studio and its Rhode Island-based parent company abruptly shut down because of financial problems. The 12-year-old company was one of the...

WILLIAMSBURG — State leaders were divided by party lines Saturday at the National Governors Association meeting on whether they would expand their Medicaid systems after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's signature health-care...