Gravelly Point in Newport, the site of the largest mass execution in RI history, is just one of the state's many connections to the Golden Age of Pirates. Many famous names visited, lived in ...

Thomas Tew, the “Rhode Island Pirate,” was a descendant of one of Newport’s original settlers and retired there for some time before perishing on the high seas. Tew’s contemporary “King ...

Rhode Island joined 18 other states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. The lawsuit challenges the potential withholding of federal education funds over diversity, equity ...