Founders knew well why Roger Williams founded Rhode Island (1638). As integral to our First Amendment, Jefferson adapted from William’s famous treatise on persecution his “wall of separation ...

While the Massachusetts Bay Colony imposed political and religious uniformity, within the first generation, Roger Williams founded Rhode Island (in 1636) as a refuge for religious tolerance.

Rhode Island accents became a source of stigma during the 1980s, prompting locals to take classes and work with coaches to deliberately soften their speech. Many Rhode Island natives under age 40 ...

In August 1972, Monroe Milstein started selling discounted coats out of a defunct coat factory he’d bought for $675,000 in Burlington, N.J. He called his new store Burlington Coat Factory. He ...

The seven-year fight over Rhode Island's tractor trailer truck toll network is officially over – but now both sides are fighting over who won. The truckers say they won and should be given $21 ...

Six candidates, four Democrats, one Republican, and one independent, are vying for the late Dominick Ruggerio's Rhode Island state Senate seat. The Democratic primary is scheduled for July 8 ...