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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo said Friday she is signing an executive order that will give the state Department of HealthRead More

MANCHESTER, Maine (AP) — The owner of a company that installed safety posts outside a Maine building that was destroyed in a deadly propane explosionRead More

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s agriculture commissioner has called on the federal government to loosen the rules about the interstate shipping of meat during theRead More

SWANTON, Vt. (AP) — The number of people apprehended for illegally crossing from Canada into the United States along its northern border has nearly tripledRead More

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Gov. Gina Raimondo’s executive order requiring face coverings for most people when they are in public places to help slow theRead More

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A dog walker found nails in cut-up pieces of hot dogs scattered across some lawns in Rhode Island, police said. TheRead More

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Workers at Connecticut’s juvenile detention centers are calling on state judicial officials to improve precautions against the coronavirus, after employees andRead More

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island has met several benchmarks that Gov. Gina Raimondo said Thursday will allow her to lift the state’s stay-at-home orderRead More

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The state has partnered with a Maine-based company to buy enough of its coronavirus testing kits to more than triple theRead More

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new walk-up coronavirus testing site is opening in Providence on Thursday. The site is located in the parking lot ofRead More