
Same-sex couples welcome Del. gay marriage law
Mikki Snyder-Hall married her partner, Claire, in California in 2008, and moved two years ago to Rehoboth, a gay-friendly Delaware beach town.

Delaware becomes 11th state with gay marriage
Delaware became the 11th state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage when Democratic Gov. Jack Markell signed a gay marriage bill into law just ...

RI now 10th state to allow gay marriage
Rhode Island has become the nation's 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, after a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this ...

Rhode Island becomes 10th state with gay marriage
Rhode Island on Thursday became the nation's 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, as a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this ...

Coordinated strategy propelled gay marriage in RI
Phone banks, an army of volunteers and alliances with organized labor, business leaders and religious clergy propelled gay marriage to victory in ...

RI on way to be 10th state to allow gay marriage
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 ...
RI Senate to vote on gay marriage
The Rhode Island Senate is poised to hold a landmark vote Wednesday on gay marriage legislation, the culmination of years of efforts by supporters who ...

Independent RI governor considers joining Dems
The most well-worn political parlor game in Rhode Island these days surrounds Republican-turned-independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee and whether he intends ...

New England begins the big dig-out after epic snow
New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach ...

Snowstorm hits NYC, Boston; 1 to 3 feet feared
A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston ...

Religious exemptions key to RI gay marriage debate
The fate of gay marriage legislation in Rhode Island could hinge on the exemptions it affords religious groups that oppose it, the state Senate ...

Rhode Island House easily passes gay marriage bill
The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow gays and lesbians to marry in the only New England ...

Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan marries in RI
Olympic medalist figure skater Michelle Kwan and a grandson of the late U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell have married in Rhode Island. The Providence Journal ...

Smallest state is big battleground on gay marriage
Hundreds of supporters of same-sex marriage rights assembled at the Rhode Island Statehouse on Tuesday, urging lawmakers to make the nation's smallest ...
Cities chart course through pension morass
In Philadelphia, pension costs doubled in a single decade. Cities in Rhode Island dimmed streetlights, raised taxes and put off road repairs.

Conn. shooting victims remembered worldwide
People around the country and world paused for a moment Friday morning to memorialize the 26 victims of the massacre a week ago at an elementary ...
RI court hears arguments in pension case
With billions of dollars and the retirement security of public workers at stake, the legal dispute over Rhode Island's sweeping overhaul of its public ...
RI to seek dismissal of challenge to pension law
The high-stakes legal dispute over Rhode Island's public retirement overhaul faces a key court date Friday when attorneys for the state will ask a ...
Unions back RI governor's call for pension talks
Public-sector unions on Tuesday hailed Gov. Lincoln Chafee's call for negotiations to settle a closely watched lawsuit over Rhode Island's landmark ...