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Here's how the other states in the region fared: Connecticut, 8.0 percent; Maine, 6.9 percent; Massachusetts, 6.4 percent; New Hampshire, 5.5 percent; and Vermont, 4.0 percent.

Thirty years ago, the National Association of Evangelicals adopted a policy statement condemning America's overcrowded and non-rehabilitative prisons.

By January 1, 2014, most states will have some form of insurance exchange as mandated by ObamaCare.

Health economists predict that in states that already have robust competition among insurance companies - states such as Colorado, Minnesota and Oregon - the exchanges are likely to stimulate more.

The driver in a car crash that killed a Warwick woman on Aug. 30, 2012, was charged in an indictment reported out Friday by the Washington County Grand Jury.