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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A commission approved a $22 million loan and grant package on Friday to help the world's largest hedge fund upgrade and expand its offices despite questions about whether the deal makes financial sense for a state facing continued budget problems. Democratic Gov. Dan Malloy said
Massachusetts
NEW YORK (AP) — Striking Verizon employees may be back to work next week after the company and its unions reached an agreement in principle for a four-year contract. About 39,000 landline and cable employees in nine eastern states and the District of.Columbia struck the telephone and cable-television service
Rhode Island
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Wednesday that a naval facility in Rhode Island is doing what the entire Defense Department should do: develop technology more quickly. Carter made the comments about the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport after he visited the center
Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The congregation that worships at the nation's oldest synagogue prevailed Monday in a bitter legal fight that threatened its existence, as a federal judge ruled it may now control its own destiny and decide what to do with a set of ceremonial bells worth
Massachusetts
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An elite boarding school where dozens of alumni say they were sexually abused by staff and fellow students is negotiating possible settlements with lawyers for more than 30 of those victims, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Meanwhile, two former students at a
Donald Trump
PROVIDENCE – The Ocean State gave GOP frontrunner Donald Trump his most lopsided primary victory to date, with about 64 percent of Rhode Island Republican primary voters supporting the New York billionaire in Tuesday's presidential primary. Ohio Gov. John Kasich received 24 percent of the Republican vote and Texas
Donald Trump
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Donald Trump swept all five Republican primaries Tuesday, a commanding showing across the Northeast that kept the Republican front-runner on his narrow path to the GOP nomination. His rout was a blow to rivals who are running out of ways to stop the brash billionaire. Hillary Clinton was
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Massachusetts remains one of the most liberal states in the U.S., but a Republican tide has pushed the nation closer to the GOP corner, a new survey of Americans' political leanings shows. Gallup tracking surveys show 20 states were either solidly Republican or leaning that way last
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