http://www.mail.com/locations/13216-rhode-island.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/13216-rhode-island.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2129608-texas-banker-puts-up-1m-tricky-math-solution.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that's been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s. The Providence, R.I.-based American Mathematical Society on Tuesday said $1 million will be awarded for the publication of a solution to the Beal Conjecture number theory problem. Dallas banker D. ... Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:08:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2129608-texas-banker-puts-up-1m-tricky-math-solution.html 2013-06-04T21:08:46Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2117988-ri-gov-chafee-independent-joins-democrats.html WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Long before he was a Republican U.S. senator, the nation's only independent governor or a newly minted Democrat eyeing a second term, Lincoln Chafee wrestled for Brown University, a solo pursuit that foreshadowed a career often spent grappling on the political edges. On Thursday, Chafee cast his lot with the Democrats, long the state'... Thu, 30 May 2013 20:21:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2117988-ri-gov-chafee-independent-joins-democrats.html 2013-05-30T20:21:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2116570-independent-ri-gov-chafee-ex-gop-to-dem.html NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) — Independent Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee is joining the Democratic Party ahead of his 2014 bid for a second term, his spokeswoman said Wednesday, confirming a move that Chafee has been talking about for months as a way to better position himself for re-election. Chafee would not immediately address his party switch when asked... Thu, 30 May 2013 00:45:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2116570-independent-ri-gov-chafee-ex-gop-to-dem.html 2013-05-30T00:45:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086294-apnewsbreak-lawyer-tsarnaevs-widow-to-cooperate.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new criminal defense lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will continue to cooperate with investigators but says he plans to keep quiet about the details of her case publicly because that could hurt the investigation. New York lawyer Joshua Dratel, who has represented several t... Wed, 15 May 2013 03:41:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086294-apnewsbreak-lawyer-tsarnaevs-widow-to-cooperate.html 2013-05-15T03:41:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2072896-widow-boston-bomb-suspect-hires-criminal-lawyer.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a prominent criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases as she continues to face questions from federal authorities. Katherine Russell added New York lawyer Joshua Dratel to her legal team, her attorney Amato DeLuca said Wednesday. Dratel has rep... Thu, 09 May 2013 00:50:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2072896-widow-boston-bomb-suspect-hires-criminal-lawyer.html 2013-05-09T00:50:01Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2069844-ri-prayer-banner-case-student-to-playboy-award.html CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — An atheist student who fought to have a prayer banner at her Rhode Island public high school removed is getting an award named for Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. WPRO-AM reports (http://bit.ly/10ngeRr) Jessica Ahlquist is among this year's winners of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards. She won in the education category for what ... Tue, 07 May 2013 22:01:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2069844-ri-prayer-banner-case-student-to-playboy-award.html 2013-05-07T22:01:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2060214-ri-10th-to-allow-gay-marriage.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — 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 heavily Roman Catholic state. Gays, lesbians, their friends and families erupted into cheers Thursday following a final 56-15 vote in the Rhode Island House, and then again an hour later ... Fri, 03 May 2013 10:57:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2060214-ri-10th-to-allow-gay-marriage.html 2013-05-03T10:57:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059588-rhode-island-10th-with-gay-marriage.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — 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 heavily Roman Catholic state ended with the triumphant cheers of hundreds of gays, lesbians, their families and friends. Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the bill into law on the Statehous... Fri, 03 May 2013 00:15:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059588-rhode-island-10th-with-gay-marriage.html 2013-05-03T00:15:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2054910-uncle-family-to-claim-boston-bomb-suspects-body.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Relatives of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said as officials in both Washington and Russia deepened their investigations into him and his ties. The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, has been at the medical examiner's office in Massachusetts sinc... Wed, 01 May 2013 14:12:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2054910-uncle-family-to-claim-boston-bomb-suspects-body.html 2013-05-01T14:12:51Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2051938-fbi-visits-wife-dead-bombing-suspect.html NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombings have visited the Rhode Island home of dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehvz) in-laws and carried away several bags. CNN says at least one bag was labeled DNA samples. FBI spokesman Jason Pack confirms agents went to the North Kingstown home of Kat... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:07:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2051938-fbi-visits-wife-dead-bombing-suspect.html 2013-04-30T04:07:01Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2048668-england-stride-2-tragedies.html BOSTON (AP) — They are six small states, settled before the nation's birth, wedged between New York, Canada and the Atlantic Ocean: New England. The region is uniquely defined by its compact geography, its culture and its "sense of place," as Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich put it. "The mystique that has grown up over the centuries, perpe... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:02:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2048668-england-stride-2-tragedies.html 2013-04-27T16:02:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2043480-coordinated-strategy-propelled-gay-marriage-ri.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Phone banks, an army of volunteers and alliances with organized labor, business leaders and religious clergy propelled gay marriage to victory in Rhode Island this week, a savvy and coordinated strategy that relied on growing public support and old-fashioned bare-knuckle politics. Gay marriage legislation had failed every year in R... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:38:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2043480-coordinated-strategy-propelled-gay-marriage-ri.html 2013-04-25T20:38:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040904-ri-way-to-10th-to-allow-gay-marriage.html 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 margin, following a House vote of approval in January. The bill must now return to the House for a largely procedu... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:42:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040904-ri-way-to-10th-to-allow-gay-marriage.html 2013-04-24T23:42:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040256-ri-senate-leader-plays-key-role-marriage-debate.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — If Rhode Island joins the rest of New England in allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed, it will be because a formidable opponent, Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, moved out of the way. The state's first female Senate leader, Paiva Weed has long been the most visible obstacle to gay marriage in Rhode Island. Those behind an agg... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:49:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040256-ri-senate-leader-plays-key-role-marriage-debate.html 2013-04-24T06:49:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2038364-ri-senate-to-vote-gay-marriage.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — 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 want to see the state join the rest of New England in allowing gays and lesbians to wed. Advocates are optimistic the bill will pass when the Senate takes it up Wednesday afternoon. ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:00:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2038364-ri-senate-to-vote-gay-marriage.html 2013-04-23T22:00:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2039254-talented-artist-now-bombing-suspects-wife.html NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — Katherine Russell was a talented artist, a good student who grew up Christian, the daughter of a suburban doctor. Then she went off to college in Boston. A few years later, she had dropped out of school, converted to Islam and was Katherine Tsarnaeva, wife of a man who would become a suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombi... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:34:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2039254-talented-artist-now-bombing-suspects-wife.html 2013-04-23T20:34:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2038358-woman-injured-marathon-blast-faces-challenges.html BOSTON (AP) — As this shocked city observed a moment of silence, Heather Abbott was following through on a difficult decision — allowing doctors to amputate her left foot, which was mangled in the bombings that shattered the Boston Marathon. From her bed at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Monday, the 38-year-old Rhode Island woman reflected on the terror ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:43:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2038358-woman-injured-marathon-blast-faces-challenges.html 2013-04-23T06:43:58Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2036158-hasbro-monopoly-contest-helped-lift-sales.html PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro reported first-quarter results Monday that beat Wall Street expectations as the toy maker benefited from an online contest that let people vote to eliminate one of its Monopoly tokens and introduce a new one. The Pawtucket, R.I., maker of G.I. Joe, My Little Pony and Transformers said revenue rose for three of its four catego... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:32:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2036158-hasbro-monopoly-contest-helped-lift-sales.html 2013-04-22T21:32:50Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2016698-ri-supreme-court-settles-8500-vegas-loan-dispute.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — What happens in Vegas shouldn't necessarily stay in Vegas, the Rhode Island Supreme Court said Friday as it ruled a Providence man who called a friend from Sin City to borrow $8,500 for gambling losses must pay it back despite an old law that says otherwise. The court opinion ends a long legal dispute over the money given to Juan C... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:18:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2016698-ri-supreme-court-settles-8500-vegas-loan-dispute.html 2013-04-12T22:18:10Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/2009282-mclemore-oladipo-ledo-declare-nba-draft.html Ben McLemore is one and done at Kansas. Ricky Ledo is none and done with Providence. McLemore, Kansas' talented freshman guard, was among several underclassmen who wasted little time in declaring for the NBA draft on Tuesday, the day after the college season ended. Ledo, Providence, R.I., native, practiced with the Friars this season but never played beca... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:48:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/2009282-mclemore-oladipo-ledo-declare-nba-draft.html 2013-04-09T21:48:07Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1982870-baldwin-2500-to-ri-high-school-chess-team.html CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin has donated $2,500 to help the chess team at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island defray the cost of traveling to a national tournament next month. The city of Central Falls has made national news because of financial problems, and the news coverage previously caught Baldwin's attention. Baldwin also cont... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:14:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1982870-baldwin-2500-to-ri-high-school-chess-team.html 2013-03-27T19:14:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1950380-ri-city-wins-5m-bloomberg-prize-with-word-gap.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's capital city has won a $5 million contest created by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg with a high-tech plan to overcome a language skills problem known as the word gap that puts low-income children at a profound disadvantage in the classroom. Providence was one of 305 cities that pitched an idea to Bloomberg Philanth... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:35:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1950380-ri-city-wins-5m-bloomberg-prize-with-word-gap.html 2013-03-13T02:35:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1941248-independent-ri-governor-considers-joining-dems.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The most well-worn political parlor game in Rhode Island these days surrounds Republican-turned-independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee and whether he intends to switch to the Democratic Party before next year's election. National Democrats gave Chafee a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in the fall, the state's all-Democ... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:58:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1941248-independent-ri-governor-considers-joining-dems.html 2013-03-08T17:58:27Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1921092-pope-live-papacy-dawn-retirement.html "Pope Live" follows the events of the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world. It will be updated throughout the day with breaking news and other items of interest. AN ERA HAS ENDED In the final moments of Benedict XVI's papacy, the church bells began ... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:51:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1921092-pope-live-papacy-dawn-retirement.html 2013-02-28T19:51:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1920448-whistle-blower-suit-claimed-navy-kickbacks-2006.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A recently unsealed whistle-blower lawsuit claims a former civilian Navy employee from Virginia and a now-defunct Navy contractor engaged in a bribery and kickback scheme going back to at least 2004. The lawsuit, first filed in a federal court in Georgia in 2006, predates by more than four years criminal charges brought by federal ... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:45:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1920448-whistle-blower-suit-claimed-navy-kickbacks-2006.html 2013-02-28T19:45:42Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1911336-schillings-bloody-sock-ws-92613.html NEW YORK (AP) — A bloody sock worn by Curt Schilling while pitching for the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals was sold for $92,613 at a live auction on Saturday night at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion. Schilling had loaned his sock to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum but when his Rhode Island-based v... Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:07:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1911336-schillings-bloody-sock-ws-92613.html 2013-02-24T05:07:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1909900-ex-legion-priest-fiscal-improprieties.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former priest for the disgraced Roman Catholic religious order the Legion of Christ said in sworn testimony recently made public that he witnessed financial improprieties at the order's operation in Rome. Father Stephen Fichter, who left the Legion in 2000, testified that the group's founder used large amounts of cash without any... Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:32:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1909900-ex-legion-priest-fiscal-improprieties.html 2013-02-23T07:32:39Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1901518-grief-smolders-10-years-ri-club-fire.html WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Along a busy commercial road here sits a 10-year-old scar that hasn't healed. Next to a crumbling parking lot, rusty folding chairs sit amid dozens of handmade crosses decorated with beads, stuffed animals and fading photos. This is where 100 people were killed Feb. 20, 2003, when the tour manager for the rock band Great White se... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:17:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1901518-grief-smolders-10-years-ri-club-fire.html 2013-02-19T20:17:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1898710-deadly-ri-fire-remembered-memorial-plans-advance.html WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Ten years after a deadly nightclub fire, some survivors and relatives of the 100 who died in the blaze remember it with quiet pain. Huddled together in bitter cold, they brought flowers Sunday and paid their respects at handmade crosses that dot the site of the 2003 fire for each person who died. Some cried and spoke of missing t... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:25:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1898710-deadly-ri-fire-remembered-memorial-plans-advance.html 2013-02-18T13:25:29Z