The U.S. Department of Agriculture is upgrading technology used to combat a swindle of the nation's $64.7 billion food stamp program.

A Rhode Island resident won the Powerball jackpot on Saturday. The payout? $366.4 million.

A spokeswoman for the office says at the time of the accident, the missing miners were operating what's known as a continuous miner, a machine that digs coal for transport to the surface.

The RI medical examiner's office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month.

Pope Francis is warning that the Catholic Church's moral edifice might "fall like a house of cards" if it doesn't balance its divisive rules.

The U.S. Postal Service has suspended mail delivery and will keep post offices closed in all six New England states because of the blizzard that has dumped more than 2 feet of snow throughout the region.

A storm poised to dump up to 3 feet of snow from NYC to Boston and beyond beginning Friday could be one for the record books.

Chafee became an independent after parting ways with the Republican Party.

State and federal records show more than 40 closure orders over safety violations since January 2009.

The workshops are designed to help local medical professionals combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Shooting flames and plumes of smoke could be seen from miles away.

The men said they want to operate a neighborhood bar with about 60 seats that serves traditional pub food.

A winter storm is forecast to explode into a "potentially historic" blizzard over New England on Friday and Saturday.

A widespread winter storm has dumped snow over the Northeast and parts of Ohio just days after the regions were hit by another storm moving from the nation's midsection.