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It doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice - no one gets official season's greetings from Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian.

Well into the fourth hour of Thursday's hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, it was Rep.

There's no substitute for local news. Today's ProJo has a picture of conservative leader Chris Young baring his tonsils and lower abdomen in the cause of hollering loud enough to shut down another health care forum.

A trio of congressmen on Tuesday pushed for capping credit-card interest rates, at a time when consumers are out spending money on holiday purchases.

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano , a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, appeared with U.S. Rep.

Ray Di Pasquale, president of the Community College of Rhode Island , will attend President Obama's job summit on Thursday.

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's recent dispute with Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin may have made headlines around the world, but neither man is likely to play a major role in settling the big public policy issue at the root of their feud.

They have filled the State House lawn, crowded onto buses to rally in the nation's capitol, and waved signs in health-care town halls.

Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin on Sunday disputed key details of Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's account of their 2007 communication about whether the congressman should take Communion, given his support for abortion rights.

Someone may have awarded Little Rhody three new congressional districts while we weren't looking.

Updated at 11:50 a.m. EST Defense Secretary Robert Gates will announce a Pentagon-wide investigation of the Fort Hood shooting, a defense official confirmed to CBS News .

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped a former senior defense official to lead a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings, The Associated Press has learned.

Michael J. Gardiner is hoping to bring his personal campaign for a more "centrist" Republican party - and his views on the national health-care debate, abortion, illegal immigrants and same-sex relationships - to the ballot next year as a candidate for Rhode Island's 2nd District Congressional seat.

Activist and civil rights activist Cesar E. Chavez will be honored with the creation of a mini-grant program in his name during the 6th Annual Cesar E. Chavez Birthday Celebration Breakfast on Friday, March 27 at 8:30 a.m. at the Airport Radisson Hotel located on Post Road in Warwick.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said he was "not going to dignify with an answer" Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin's public comments that Kennedy could not be a good Catholic and still support abortion rights.

As former President Bill Clinton warned Senate Democrats of the political dangers of failing to pass an overhaul of the health-care system, party leaders set a goal of starting debate on a Senate bill next week and struggled to close rifts over abortion and other contentious issues.

Shane Harris over at the Atlantic suggests that last night's 60 Minutes piece on cyber security will raise the profile of the issue.

Last night's 60 Minutes piece on cyber security led with the story that blackouts in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by computer hackers who took over the systems that control electrical generation facilities.

" Rhode Island Hospital will receive $11 million over the next five years to create a major stem-cell research center that will focus on stem-cell biology and tissue-regeneration techniques that could be used to treat marrow and lung diseases.

Winding the clock at City Hall isn't that bad - once you catch your breath. Located almost six stories up in the brick tower with a weathered copper dome, the internal works of the late 19th-century clock can only be reached by climbing up 104 steps from street level.