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Rhode IslandPROVIDENCE
Matt Mullery scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help Brown defeat Kean College 74-63 on Monday night.Adrian Williams shot 5 of 7 from 3-point range and added 17 points for the Bears (5-7), who snapped a four-game losing streak. Peter Sullivan added 14 points and Matt Sullivan chipped in with 11 points and six rebounds.
CRANSTON
The winning numbers in the Rhode Island daily lottery drawing for Monday were:2-3-1-4
PAWTUCKET
A fight over athletic fields in this city goes beyond who gets to play soccer where and raises thorny questions about separation of church and state and public aid to religious institutions - divisive issues that have flared repeatedly in heavily Catholic Rhode Island.Parents of public school students accuse the city of favoring Saint Raphael Academy - a prominent Catholic school and alma mater of city and state power brokers - by granting its football team exclusive use of a public field. They say it's unconstitutional to give a religious school priority access to a field meant for public use.
PROVIDENCE
A Senate commission will soon explore whether Rhode Island should decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and tax the drug, a path recently taken by neighboring Massachusetts.Commission members are exploring several questions that suggest an underlying skepticism with criminalizing marijuana, including whether existing prohibitions have decreased drug use, caused corruption among law enforcement officials and resulted in violence. The panel will present its findings early next year.
CRANSTON
The winning numbers in the Rhode Island Wild Money lottery drawing for Thursday were:3-5-6-7-31-Extra 21
PROVIDENCE
A Rhode Island man scammed immigrants out of thousands of dollars by posing as a lawyer and charging them for bogus legal services, federal authorities say.A criminal complaint charges Audeliz Villegas of Pawtucket with wire fraud and impersonating a federal agent.
PROVIDENCE
Home prices in Rhode Island have risen slightly for the first time in more than three years.A survey released Tuesday by the Rhode Island Association of Realtors showed the median home price in the state climbed just over 1 percent in November to $205,000 compared to the same period last year.
PROVIDENCE
Rhode Island has selected Chevron Energy Solutions to develop and maintain several onshore wind turbines in the coastal town of Narragansett, Gov. Don Carcieri announced Tuesday.Chevron's proposal beat out bids from three other firms. It plans to finance the site work and turbine construction without funding from the town or state, Carcieri's office said.
NEWPORT
The publisher of the Newport Daily News is retiring after three decades in the position.The newspaper says Albert "Buck" Sherman Jr., who succeeded his father in 1980, will retire at the end of the month. He is 65.
PROVIDENCE
Rhode Island has selected Chevron Energy Solutions to develop and maintain several wind turbines in the coastal town of Narragansett.Chevron beat out three other firms seeking the project and is not seeking any money from the state or the town for its proposal. The exact number and location of the turbines have not been determined.
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