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08.02.2021 / 01:19

Valparaiso hands No. 25 Drake its 1st loss of season, 74-57

VALPARAISO, Ind. – Ben Krikke scored 15 points and Valparaiso handed No. 25 Drake its first loss of the season with a 74-57 romp on Sunday.

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The Latest: Snow fall in Mass., R.I. tops 1 foot overnight

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Playing favorites? Hospital boards, donors get COVID shots

While millions of Americans wait for the COVID-19 vaccine, hospital board members, their trustees and donors around the country have gotten early access to the scarce drug or offers for vaccinations, raising complaints about favoritism tainting decisions about who gets inoculated and when.

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Creator of RI's beloved Big Blue Bug landmark dies at 88

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The creator of the Rhode Island landmark, the Big Blue Bug, which advertises a local pest control business on Interstate 95 in Providence, has died.

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Biden Commerce pick stresses investment in COVID-19 recovery

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee the Commerce Department says investments across the country are needed to provide Americans with a pathway to a good job as the nation recovers from the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Pelosi names Rep. Madeleine Dean among Trump impeachment managers

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Substitute teachers are in high demand as coronavirus cases rise

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – The increasing need for more substitute teachers to fill in for full-time teachers calling out sick, resigning or even protesting over in-school learning as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country has pushed some school districts to temporarily relax qualification requirements.

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COVID-19 case counts spike in hot spots across US

From Rhode Island to California, all regions of the United States are seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases in what is likely the post-holiday surge of the virus that experts feared. California, Arizona, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Rhode Island are reporting the highest rates of new daily cases per person.

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Vaccine rollout confirms public health officials’ warnings

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Public health officials sounded the alarm for months, complaining that they did not have enough support or money to get COVID-19 vaccines quickly into arms. Now the slower-than-expected start to the largest vaccination effort in U.S.

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Biden to pick Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo as commerce secretary

Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov.

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Biden picks Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo as commerce secretary

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department, helping set trade policy and looking to promote U.S.

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What is the 25th Amendment? Here’s what you need to know

WASHINGTON - After a chaotic day Wednesday with pro-Trump rioters breaching barricades and breaking windows amid violent clashes between the mob and police inside the U.S. Capitol, some lawmakers are calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office using an amendment from the U.S.

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17 members of Congress sign letter to Pence asking him to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump

WASHINGTON - Seventeen members of Congress signed a letter to Vice President Mike Pence urging him to invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from office in the wake of protests in Washington by Trump’s supporters that devolved into a violent riot inside the U.S.

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EXPLAINER: Why the smallest state has a big virus challenge

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – For a few days in December, Rhode Island was one of the worst places on the planet when it came to new cases of COVID-19 per capita.Hospitals hit capacity as the rate of new cases topped the nation, nearly double the rate in neighboring Connecticut. The state's record for daily COVID-19 deaths, set in April, was broken.

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Late dunk lifts No. 11 Creighton to win over Providence

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Christian Bishop had a go-ahead dunk with 0.8 seconds left and the 11th-ranked Creighton Bluejays held off a late rally to beat the Providence Friars 67-65 on Saturday.Marcus Zegarowski, who had the assist on Bishop’s dunk, hit six 3-pointers and had 20 points to help the Bluejays (8-2, 4-1 Big East) to their fourth straight victory.Damien Jefferson added a season-high 18 points, his eighth consecutive game in double-figures. Marcus Ballock finished with 14 points.

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US sees a record number of COVID-19 deaths in December

With a few days still left in the month, December is already the deadliest month of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

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Dancing Amazon driver: Delivery man's moves caught on camera

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A video of a dancing Amazon driver in Rhode Island captured the attention of social media users, and the homeowner whose security camera filmed the man busting a move on his delivery route.People all over the internet have been raving over the dance moves caught on Claudius Cooper’s home security camera on Dec.

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Coronavirus behind death of Rhode Island inmate: report

An inmate in Rhode Island has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, according to a local report. The 66-year-old inmate who served time at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) was recently diagnosed with the virus.The inmate had underlying health issues that "likely contributed to this death," said Rhode Island Department of Corrections Spokesperson J.R. Ventura to local news station WPRI. The news comes after the American Medical Association (AMA) in November called for stronger disease mitigation measures at the nation’s correctional and immigrant detention facilities.

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'Do as I say': Anger as some politicians ignore virus rules

SAN FRANCISCO – Denver's mayor flies to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family — after urging others to stay home. He later says he was thinking with “my heart and not my head." A Pennsylvania mayor bans indoor dining, then eats at a restaurant in Maryland.

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Judge approves settlement in women's sports case at Brown

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement between Brown University and student-athletes who had challenged the Ivy League school's decision to drop several women's varsity sports.U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr.

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Vaccinations throughout the years: These photos show just how much has changed

the Associated Press reported.The pandemic has now claimed 300,000 lives in the U.S. -- and counting.We thought it’d be interesting to look through the Getty Images archive, at photos of vaccination efforts from years past.Only time will tell what the situation will look like once this new vaccine is available to the masses.

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COVID-19 Scan for Dec 01, 2020

A study in Clinical Infectious Diseases yesterday found that 1% of US blood donations late last year and in early 2020 contained SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, suggesting that the virus was present in the United States earlier than previously thought.SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first

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Acclaimed art scholar, ex-RISD president Roger Mandle dies

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Roger Mandle, an internationally renowned art scholar and the former longtime president of the Rhode Island School of Design, has died, RISD said Tuesday. He was 79.Mandle died over the weekend, the school said in a statement, without elaborating.

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Flying back to Rhode Island after the holiday? Airport offering free COVID tests

People flying into T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island were given the option of a free coronavirus test this weekend as the state looks to prevent a surge in cases following Thanksgiving.

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Covid immunization: Pfizer to start pilot program in four US states

vaccine candidate.The four states – Rhode Island, Texas, New Mexico, and Tennessee – were selected for the program because of their differences in overall size, diversity of populations and immunization infrastructure, the drugmaker said in a statement."The four states included in this pilot program will not receive vaccine doses earlier than other states by virtue of this pilot, nor will they receive any differential consideration," Pfizer said.Global hopes of vanquishing the coronavirus pandemic were boosted Monday after a vaccine was found to be nearly 95 percent effective in a trial, bringing much-needed optimism amid surging infections and grueling new restrictions.The news from the US biotech firm Moderna comes after similar results

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Oregon, New Mexico order lockdowns as other states resist amid surging COVID-19 cases

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The governors of Oregon and New Mexico ordered near-lockdowns Friday in the most aggressive response yet to the latest wave of coronavirus infections shattering records across the U.S., even as many of their colleagues in other states show little appetite for reimposing the hard-line restrictions of last spring.“We are in a life-or-death situation, and if we don’t act right now, we cannot preserve the lives, we can’t keep saving lives, and we will absolutely crush our current health care system and infrastructure,” Democratic Gov.

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Earthquake rattles Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Map of earthquake - 11 km S of Bliss Corner, Massachusetts (USGS)BOSTON - Residents in Massachusetts and Rhode Island reported feeling their homes shake during what preliminarily appears to have been an earthquake.According to the Associated Press, the earthquake struck southern New England on Sunday morning but there were no immediate reports of damage.The earthquake had a magnitude of 3.6 centered a few miles off the coast of Bliss Corner, Dartmouth, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).The quake struck shortly after 9 a.m.

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5 states OK measures eradicating racist language, symbols

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a U-turn to eradicate the word “plantations” from the state’s official name.In a year when discussions of racial justice have dominated U.S.

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Dems demand Twitter suspend Trump's account until all ballots counted

NEW YORK - Democratic lawmakers are urging Twitter to suspend President Trump's account, suggesting none of his tweets should be posted until all ballots have been counted in the 2020 presidential election.The president, whose Twitter comments Wednesday complained about Democratic challenger Joe Biden's lead among mail-in ballots and claimed victory for himself in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina before counting was finished, has been spreading "pure disinformation," Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly said on the social media platform.“Suspend his account, @Twitter," Connolly wrote.

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US daily Covid-19 cases hit new record of 100,000

The United States set a one-day record for new coronavirus cases yesterday with at least 102,591 new infections and as hospitals in several states reported a rising tide of patients, according to a Reuters tally.

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Man serving 660-year sentence denied compassionate release

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island man serving a 660-year prison sentence for laundering millions of dollars for a Colombian drug cartel was denied compassionate release on Monday by a federal judge who said he had failed to show he was at an increased risk of severe complications from the coronavirus.U.S.

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Scammers seize on US election, but it's not votes they want

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The email from a political action committee seemed harmless: if you support Joe Biden, it urged, click here to make sure you're registered to vote.But Harvard University graduate student Maya James did not click. Instead, she Googled the name of the soliciting PAC.

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A look at big issues on Supreme Court's agenda in new term

death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump says he wants a full court to be available to weigh in on any campaign-related litigation.Already, however, the court has confronted election-related cases from Wisconsin, Alabama, Rhode Island, Florida and Texas.

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CDC Announces Additional COVID-19 Infections

Media Relations (404) 639-3286At noon on Tuesday, March 3 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 60 cases of COVID-19 from 12 states. Twenty-two of these cases are travel-related; 11 are believed to be person-to-person spread; and for the remaining 27 the source of exposure is still under investigation.

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Limited Secondary Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Child Care Programs — Rhode Island, June 1–July 31, 2020

On August 21, 2020, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD1; Amanda L. DellaGrotta, MPH2; Caitlin Molina3; Ailis Clyne, MD2; Kristine Campagna, MED2; Tatiana M.

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Original 9, Hewitt, Raymond among nominees for tennis Hall

NEWPORT, R.I. – Billie Jean King and the other members of the Original 9 who laid the groundwork for the women’s professional tennis tour are the first group nominated together for the International Tennis Hall of Fame.They join Jonas Bjorkman, Sergi Brugera, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Lleyton Hewitt, Lisa Raymond and the late Dennis Van der Meer on the ballot announced Monday for the Hall’s Class of 2021.Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of when King, elected to the Hall in 1987 for her accomplishments on the court, and eight other players — Peaches Bartkowicz, Rosie Casals, Judy Dalton, Julie Heldman, Kerry Melville Reid, Kristy Pigeon, Nancy Richey and Valerie Ziegenfuss — signed $1 contracts to participate in the first women-only tennis

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Brown, attorneys reach settlement in women's sports fight

announced in May it would reduce women’s varsity fencing, golf, squash, skiing and equestrian teams to club status in an effort to streamline its athletic department and make remaining teams more competitive.Six men’s varsity sports were also cut, although track and cross country were later restored. Brown said it would add co-ed and women’s varsity sailing teams to maintain gender balance.Public Justice and the ACLU of Rhode Island on June 29 filed a motion asking the federal court to enforce the 1998 agreement by restoring the women’s sports and finding the university in contempt.

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Smoke from West Coast wildfires creates haze during Monday night's sunset on East Coast

PHILADELPHIA - As wildfires continue to ravage the West Coast, the East Coast is now starting to see some of the effects of the devastation.There are nearly 90 large fires burning in 10 states, scorching an area roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Officials say at least 36 people have been killed in the fires.Monday, the Delaware Valley began seeing the effects of the fires in the form of hazy skies.Experts say smoke from the fires is creating a haze that many noticed as the sun set Monday.The National Weather Service in Mount Holly took to twitter to address the phenomenon Monday.Advertisement"We're getting some questions and comments about the sunset this evening.

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Film shows trailblazing Black female editor, VP candidate

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Kamala Harris made history last week by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated to run for vice president on a major party’s ticket. But the first Black woman to run for vice president in the nation’s history was trailblazing newspaperwoman Charlotta Spears Bass.

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CDC's Redfield addresses school reopening, citing promising study

After reopening 666 childcare centers this summer, Rhode Island reported limited transmission of COVID-19 among children and staff, offering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more evidence on how to safely reopen schools for in-person learning this fall.

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How to cast your ballot without using USPS ahead of the 2020 election

offer some form of early voting, according to the nonprofit, bipartisan voting information site Vote.org. Some offer in-person voting as early as 45 days before the election.Some states, including Maryland, New York and Ohio, even allow some early voting on weekends.Ten states — Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina — do not offer early in-person voting options.

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NJ adds 2 states, Virgin Islands to advisory, drops others

(Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey added Hawaii and South Dakota, along with the Virgin Islands, to its COVID-19 travel advisory list on Tuesday, while dropping a handful of other states.Democratic Gov.

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Health officials across US are quitting or getting fired amid the COVID-19 pandemic

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health leaders around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.One of the latest departures came Sunday, when California's public health director, Dr.

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‘The chances of it being 98% effective is not great’: Fauci says COVID-19 vaccine efficacy yet to be seen

FILE - Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before a House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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Misinformation on the virus is proving highly contagious

FILE - People wearing face masks shop at a Chinese supermarket amid the coronavirus outbreak on April 20, 2020 in New York City. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - As the world races to find a vaccine and a treatment for COVID-19, there is seemingly no antidote in sight to the burgeoning outbreak of coronavirus conspiracy theories, hoaxes, anti-mask myths and sham cures.The phenomenon, unfolding largely on social media, escalated this week when President Donald Trump retweeted a false video about an anti-malaria drug being a cure for the virus and it was revealed that Russian intelligence is spreading disinformation about the crisis through English-language websites.RELATED: Doctor demonstrates how face mask blocks respiratory droplets from spreadingE

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First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: Bracing for bug-borne illnesses

overwhelmed state public health offices, said Candice Hoffmann, an agency spokeswoman.Officials in eight states and the District of Columbia have so far taken up the offer: Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Florida and Arizona.During last year’s EEE outbreak, the CDC provided about $700,000 in emergency funding and technical assistance to Rhode Island, Indiana, Michigan and Massachusetts, on top of roughly $18 million it provided to states for annual vector-borne disease surveillance, Hoffmann said.In Michigan, where six of the state’s 10 cases of EEE last year proved fatal, officials this summer have launched a pilot program to improve the state’s response to mosquito-borne illnesses.Ned Walker, a medical

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Tropical Storm conditions, heavy rain spreading northward along coast

PHILADELPHIA - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Fay is now packing 60 mph sustained winds and will bring 2 to 4 inches of rain, with some areas reaching up to 7 inches, near and along its track.Earlier this morning, a Tropical Storm Warning was extended southward to Delaware. The warning includes coastal counties and runs all of the way to Rhode Island.The low pressure system became a tropical storm Thursday off the coast of North Carolina and is still moving to north, now at a pace of 12 mph, up from 10 mph earlier this morning.

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Trump, Biden win mostly mail-in primaries in NJ, Del.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey’s practically all-mail primary produced results in some of the state’s most closely watched contests despite concerns that Election Day would end in uncertainty.Though there was little suspense, former Vice President Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary, and Democratic incumbent Sen. Cory Booker was victorious against his challenger.In perhaps the most closely watched race, Amy Kennedy, the spouse of former Rhode Island Rep.

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