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24.03.2022 / 02:33

National Puppy Day: Top dog names, adopted breeds by state

LOS ANGELES - Having a "pawsome" day? It’s about to get better, because March 23 is National Puppy Day, and to celebrate, the company Top Data has revealed some doggone fantastic facts you may not know. According to the consumer insights company, the team collected data from 500,000 adopted dogs, utilized Google Search traffic volume and surveyed 1,000 dog owners across the U.S. to figure out the top dog names and adopted breeds by state.

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Shelter dog turned K-9 hero inspires Netflix movie

Ruby the K9, courtesy RISP There’s a K-9 dog in Rhode Island that has such a remarkable storied past, she’s inspired a Netflix movie.Ruby, an Australian shepherd and border collie mix, was adopted by Cpl. Daniel O'Neil in 2011, who was in need of a search-and-rescue dog for work, according to the Associated Press.At the time, the rambunctious eight-month-old pup had been adopted and returned to the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelter by five families before she found her place with O'Neil.DEAF SHEEPDOG LEARNS SIGN LANGUAGE TO ROUND UP SHEEPShelter volunteer and dog trainer Patricia Inman recalls Ruby was full of energy and needed an advocate to reassure staff that euthanasia was not the right choice."[Ruby] was a total knucklehead," Inman told the Associated Press.

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‘Everyone is cheating on Wordle,’ study finds, lists top at-fault states

according to a new study. WordFinderX said since the New York Times bought Wordle in 2022, cheating is at an all-time high. The word games reference tool said search question for "today's wordle" on Google in December registered a "0," the lowest on the scale.But the website said by mid-February, search questions topped 100, the highest registered number on the scale. They also said the most inquiries happened between 7 and 8 a.m.RELATED: How to play Wordle: How to win the internet's latest game obsessionThe website said, according to their research, the top cities with the most cheaters are New Hampshire, Rhode Island tied with Virginia, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts and Maine. Wordle is a free game that has been taking off across the internet.

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Burning cargo ship full of Porsches adrift in Atlantic Ocean

cargo ship carrying vehicles from Germany to the U.S caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday and remains adrift near the Azores Islands.The Portuguese navy rescued all the 22 crew members from the ship, named the Felicity Ace, which was scheduled to arrive in the Port of Davisville, Rhode Island, on Feb. 23.No one was injured, but the Felicity Ace was carrying an unknown number of Volkswagen Group vehicles, including Porsches, in its hold, which has a capacity of 4,000 vehicles."Our immediate thoughts are of relief that the 22 crew of the merchant ship 'Felicity Ace' are safe and well," Porsche said in a statement to Fox News Autos."A number of our cars are among the cargo.

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A ship full of Porsches, VWs and Bentleys is on fire, adrift in Atlantic Ocean

new whip might be on fire in the middle of the ocean right now.The Portuguese Navy has confirmed it has come to the aid of the Felicity Ace, a ship carrying cars across the Atlantic Ocean, after a fire broke out on one of their cargo decks and quickly spread.BREAKING: A giant cargo ship "Felicity Ace" is on fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.It's carrying a cargo of Porsche and VW automobiles.The crew safely abandoned ship in lifeboats. Under maritime law the ship is now "finders keepers." pic.twitter.com/gHLqHncrOi— Retro Tech Noir (@RetroTechNoir) February 17, 2022The 22 crew members managed to escape on lifeboats and flee to a nearby Greek tanker ship, reports The Associated Press.

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Did the COVID-19 pandemic cancel snow days? Not everywhere

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CDC readies for COVID-19 vaccine in youngest kids

The Washington Post is reporting that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials are telling vaccine providers to prepare for a Feb 21 rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years, just 1 week after advisers from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are set to vote on an emergency authorization of the vaccine.

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COVID-19 Scan for Feb 07, 2022

Nonhospitalized COVID-19 patients at highest risk for severe outcomes are often the least likely to receive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), finds a study of more than 1.9 million Medicare beneficiaries published late last week in JAMA.A team led by a Harvard Medical School researcher examined a sample of

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40 million Americans under winter storm watch ahead of weekend nor'easter

nor'easter will develop into a "bomb cyclone" off the East Coast this weekend, placing areas from New England to North Carolina at risk of heavy snow, high winds and coastal flooding beginning Friday evening.The first weather alerts associated with the storm were issued by the National Weather Service on Wednesday. Winter Storm Watches are in effect along the coast from North Carolina to Maine, including the cities of Boston; Providence, Rhode Island; New York; Philadelphia and Richmond and Norfolk in Virginia.A watch does not mean significant snowfall is guaranteed at that location.

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Vaccine mandate deadline arrives for health care workers in Pa., NJ, Del.

Nationwide, about 81% of nursing home staff members already were fully vaccinated as of earlier this month, ranging from a high of 98% in Rhode Island to a low of 67% in Missouri, according to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The data is unclear about the vaccination levels in hospitals and other health care sites.The mandate ultimately will cover 10.4 million health care workers at 76,000 facilities.It is taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.

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US COVID-19 cases dropping despite spikes in some regions, CDC data shows

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Billie Farrell becomes 1st woman to command USS Constitution

FILE - Billie J. Farrell is pictured in Charlestown, MA on Jan. 6, 2022.

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California bill would allow preteens to get vaxed without parents' consent

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, the youngest age of any state, under a proposal late Thursday by a state senator.Alabama allows such decisions at age 14, Oregon at 15, Rhode Island and South Carolina at 16, according to Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco who is proposing the change.

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American Fugitive Who Faked His Own Death Caught After Landing In Scotland Hospital With COVID-19

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COVID-19 Scan for Dec 22, 2021

People unvaccinated against COVID-19 were at up to four times the risk of infection, finds a JAMA Network Open study based on tests taken at US retail pharmacies, most of them after the emergence of the Delta (B1617.2) variant.Researchers from CVS Health in Rhode Island analyzed the incidence

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Bally's facade is rosy again; can the casino's future be, too?

Bally's Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (FOX 5 NY File Photo) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Perhaps nothing symbolized the spotty performance of Bally's casino in Atlantic City in recent years better than the mismatched replacement windows in its glass facade, spots of blue that stood out amid the rest of the rose-colored glass.Fixing that was one of the first things Phil Juliano, executive vice president of the Rhode Island-based company that bought the casino a year ago, set out to do.In recent months, the out-of-place windows have been replaced, and the facade is now uniformly rosy.Executives with Bally's Corp.

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States expand access to COVID-19 boosters, ahead of FDA

Though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to make an announcement on widening the access of COVID-19 boosters to all adults ages 18 and older as soon as later today or tomorrow, more states are going ahead with offering boosters to eligible adults who completed their full vaccination series at least 6 months ago.

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89-year-old man earns Ph.D., fulfills dream of being physicist

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An 89-year-old Rhode Island man has achieved a goal he spent two decades working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about — earning his Ph.D. and becoming a physicist.Manfred Steiner recently defended his dissertation successfully at Brown University in Providence.

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Supreme Court rejects appeal to stop Maine's COVID-19 vaccine mandate

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect Friday.Three conservative justices noted their dissents. The state is not offering a religious exemption to hospital and nursing home workers who risk losing their jobs if they are not vaccinated.Only New York and Rhode Island also have vaccine mandates for health care workers that lack religious exemptions.

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Anti-vaccine chiropractors are rising source of spreading COVID-19 misinformation

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The flashy postcard, covered with images of syringes, beckoned people to attend Vax-Con ’21 to learn "the uncensored truth" about COVID-19 vaccines.Participants traveled from around the country to a Wisconsin Dells resort for a sold-out convention that was, in fact, a sea of misinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccines and the pandemic. The featured speaker was the anti-vaccine activist who appeared in the 2020 movie "Plandemic," which pushed false COVID-19 stories into the mainstream.

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Man sentenced in COVID-19 relief business loan fraud case

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Fraudster faked his own death in bid to get out of paying back £400k Covid loan

falsely claimed almost £400,000 in government pandemic handouts faked his own suicide in a bid to evade justice.Massachusetts businessman David Adler Staveley, 54, was the first person in the US to be prosecuted for claiming pandemic small business loans under false pretences.Staveley and his partner David Andrew Butziger, 53, filed documents with the US CARES Act Paycheck Protection Programme claiming that they owned an electronics company; Dock Wireless, and three restaurants, Top of the Bay and Remington House Inn in Rhode Island and On The Trax in Massachusetts.In fact, the pair owned none of these businesses.The total of Covid relief loans paid out to the two men, ostensibly to cover “large monthly payrolls”, amounted to $543,000

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20 attorneys general file complaint to block USPS 10-year slower service plan

a statement released on Thursday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. "Specifically, the administrative complaint alleges that USPS’ current piecemeal approach to introducing sweeping changes to national delivery standards violates federal law, failing to provide the U.S.

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Hospitals, nursing homes brace for staff shortages as state COVID-19 vaccine deadlines loom

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hospitals and nursing homes around the U.S. are bracing for worsening staff shortages as state deadlines arrive for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.With ultimatums taking effect this week in states like New York, California, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the fear is that some employees will quit or let themselves be fired or suspended rather than get the vaccine."How this is going to play out, we don’t know.

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Henri lingers over US Northeast, bringing more rain and flood risk

NEW YORK - Tropical Depression Henri lingered over the U.S. Northeast on Monday, bringing heavy rainfall and the threat of flooding to some areas. Henri, which made landfall as a tropical storm Sunday afternoon in Rhode Island, was expected to bring an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain as its center moves through Massachusetts.

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Tropical Storm Henri: Flash flood warnings as storm moves inland

NEW YORK - Tropical Storm Henri socked the Northeast with heavy wind and rain as it made landfall Sunday on the coast of Rhode Island, knocking out power to over 100,000 homes and causing deluges that closed bridges, swamped roads and left many people stranded in their vehicles. "Henri weakens a little more while moving west-northwestward across central Connecticut," the National Hurricane Center said in a public advisory Sunday afternoon.

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Tropical Storm Henri: Storm makes landfall, pummels region with torrential rain

NEW YORK - Tropical Storm Henri hit the coast of Rhode Island Sunday afternoon, packing high winds that knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and bands of rain that led to flash flooding from New Jersey to Massachusetts."Henri slows down over southwestern Rhode Island," the Natoinal Hurricane Center said in a public advisory Sunday afternoon. "Strong, gusty winds and flooding rainfall continue across portions of the Northeastern United States."Henri was upgraded to hurricane status Saturday morning and then downgraded to a tropical storm a day later.

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US in ‘much worse situation’ with COVID-19 pandemic than expected, experts say

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - In a Zoom webinar for Brown University, medical experts discussed the prevalence of new variants of the novel coronavirus and what it means for the world’s attempts to return to normalcy as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the U.S. surge while vaccination rates wane.Dr.

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US COVID-19 hospital cases surge

Hospitalizations are now catching up with surging COVID-19 case counts in parts of the country where COVID-19 vaccinations are low, and according to the New York Times, some Florida hospitals are seeing their highest COVID-19 patient admission numbers since the pandemic began in March of 2020.

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US COVID-19 hospitalization cases surge

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Ten states reach 70% COVID-19 vaccination goal

So far ten states have reached President Biden's Jul 4 goal of vaccinating 70% of eligible residents against COVID-19, according to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Andy Slavitt.

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Over 50 shell casings found at site of shooting that hurt 9

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Investigators recovered more than 50 shell casings at the scene of a shooting that injured nine people in Rhode Island’s capital, Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements said Friday.

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Times Square shooting suspect arrested in Florida

The NYPD says Farrakhan Muhammad was trying to shoot his brother when he shot three people in Times Square. NEW YORK - The man accused of shooting three people in Times Square has been arrested in Florida.Police arrested Farrakhan Muhammad Wednesday morning, according to FOX News.Muhammad is accused of shooting a 4-year-old girl who was toy shopping, a tourist from Rhode Island, and a New Jersey woman in the incident.

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NYPD hunting for Times Square gunman who was aiming for brother

NEW YORK - An intense manhunt was underway Monday for the suspect in a triple shooting in Times Square. The gunman was reportedly trying to shoot his brother when he injured two women and a young girl.Amid a frantic stampede of tourists, a gut-wrenching video captures an NYPD officer running through Times Square, holding the girl, rushing her to paramedics. The child was one of three innocent bystanders shot in broad daylight Saturday afternoon.

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A look at what's next in the release of 2020 census data

ORLANDO, Fla. – There were some genuine surprises in the the first batch of data from the nation's 2020 head count released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Corruption trial of young ex-Massachusetts mayor begins

BOSTON – Adult entertainment. A personal trainer. A helicopter tour of historic mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. Those were some of the things a former young Massachusetts mayor bought with money from investors who believed they were supporting the creation of a smartphone app, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday.

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As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Climate scientists have warned for years that a warming planet would cause more extreme storms, like the one that walloped Texas in February, knocking out power and leaving millions in a deep freeze.

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Divers aim to reach capsized ship in search for survivors

PORT FOURCHON, La. – Racing against time in the search for 12 people missing since their ship capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard divers hoped a break in stormy weather Thursday would give them an opportunity to reach the overturned platform vessel.

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New film follows 2 zombie moviemakers with Down syndrome

Two best friends with Down syndrome who caused a sensation four years ago when they created their own gory zombie movie are back, this time in a documentary championed by a Hollywood luminary.

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Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. No boosters, no tetanus shots. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the coronavirus arrived, they called it a hoax. The vaccine, they said, was the real threat.

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Are suit jackets oppression? Lawmakers fight own dress codes

BOSTON – A sneaker-clad Latino state senator in Rhode Island is objecting to his chamber’s jacket and dress shirt edict as a form of white oppression. Female lawmakers in Montana complain proposed rules dealing with s kirt lengths and necklines are overly sexist.

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US prison guards refusing vaccines despite COVID-19

FILE - An aerial view San Quentin State Prison on July 08, 2020 in San Quentin, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)SAN FRANCISCO - A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: "Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?"The answer from more than half: "Hell no." Only 40 of the 475 respondents said yes.In Massachusetts, more than half the people employed by the Department of Correction declined to be immunized.

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US prison guards refusing vaccine despite COVID-19 outbreaks

A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: “Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?”

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Remains of Cold War-era Russian sub seen in film catch fire

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The remains of a Cold War-era Russian submarine once seen in a movie starring Harrison Ford caught fire in Providence on Tuesday morning as workers were using a blowtorch to cut it up for scrap, fire officials said.

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Biden hopes to boost offshore wind as Mass. project advances

WASHINGTON – A huge wind farm off the Massachusetts coast is edging closer to federal approval, setting up what the Biden administration hopes will be a model for a sharp increase in offshore wind energy development along the East Coast.

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Senate confirms Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo as commerce secretary

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo delivers remarks after U.S.

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Senate votes to confirm Biden pick as commerce secretary

WASHINGTON – The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to confirm Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to serve as President Joe Biden’s commerce secretary and help guide the economy's recovery during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

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2 hard-hit cities, 2 diverging fates in vaccine rollout

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – Mario Valdez, his wife and their 18-year-old son were fully vaccinated for COVID-19 this month as part of a special effort to inoculate every resident of Central Falls, the Rhode Island community hit hardest by the pandemic.

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