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Former U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell dies
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Claiborne deBorda Pell, the quirky Newport blueblood who held the affections of blue-collar Rhode Island and championed better education of the poor during a 36-year Senate career, has died. The onetime chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—who witnessed history at close hand, from the rise of Adolph Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall—was 90 years old.
read moreBurrillville man charged with decades-old sexual assaults
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BURRILLVILLE — A public library employee’s tip has led to the indictment of a local man for sexual assaults and molestations he allegedly committed more than two decades ago.
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