NEWPORT, R.I. The Cliff Walk has been a Newport public thoroughfare for hundreds of years, and today it’s one of Rhode Island’s biggest tourist draws. Every year, an estimated 750,000 people stroll or hike the path that runs between the Atlantic Ocean and mansions owned by members of America’s moneyed class. Now, a homeowner at […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. Vermont’s top health care regulator said Wednesday he was hopeful any changes to the federal health care system under president-elect Donald Trump’s administration would recognize that the state’s effort to pay doctors to keep people healthy is a better business model than paying them for the procedures they perform. Green Mountain Care Board […]

CONCORD, N.H. A Florida-based circus operator has agreed to pay $24,000 in fines issued by federal safety officials for a tent collapse that killed two people and injured dozens in New Hampshire last year. Robert Young, 41, and his 6-year-old daughter, Annabelle, of Concord, Vermont, died Aug. 3, 2015, when a storm with 75 mph […]

WASHINGTON For all the concerns raised in the presidential campaign about Donald Trump’s fitness to command America’s nuclear arsenal, the immediate questions he’s likely to face as president aren’t about launching these weapons, but modernizing them. He’ll have to make politically fraught decisions about a U.S. nuclear arsenal that in some ways has become decrepit. […]

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. Almost a year after her father was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack last December, Kate Bowman etched the word “love” in yellow chalk on the sidewalk outside a mosque. It was just one of the messages of peace the 15-year-old Lutheran and her mother have left in an effort to […]

PITTSBURGH The slow recovery of the U.S. economy is continuing to keep the cost of Christmas — or at least the gifts listed in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” — from spiraling out of control. The price of two turtle doves jumped from $290 to $375 this year, but nine of the other 12 gifts […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. Jurors — 11 white and one black — are deliberating in trial of a white former South Carolina patrolman charged with murder after fatally shooting an unarmed black motorist. The shooting of 50-year-old Walter Scott five times in the back was captured on cellphone video. A look at the trial of former North […]

BOSTON Changing marijuana laws aren’t necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace. For now, many employers seem to be sticking with their drug testing and personal conduct policies, even in states where recreational marijuana use is now permitted. Others are keeping a close eye on the still evolving legal, regulatory and political environment. Voters […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Five people were killed in two states after at least 13 twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the National Weather Service confirmed. At least a dozen more people were injured early Wednesday, adding to a seemingly biblical onslaught of drought, flood and fire […]