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    Lawyer: Assault on Brown U. athlete was self-defense

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    Joseph Sharkey is hospitalized with head injuries following a beating on the East Side of Providence. More>>

    I-Team: Keeping Pawtucket seniors and disabled safe

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    The city of Pawtucket holds a fire drill at a high-rise apartment building that houses about 300 seniors and people with disabilities. More>>

    Powerball jackpot grows to $600 million

    Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize. More>>

    Conn. commuter trains collide; 60 go to hospitals

    Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. More>>

    Destination Unknown: New Bedford Hurricane Barrier

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    • International

    • Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.
      Gunmen killed the entire family of an anti-terrorist policeman in Baghdad and a Sunni cleric in the Shiite-majority south on Saturday, part of a wave of attacks across Iraq that left eight dead, said officials.

    • Syrian activists say that a wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal fighting between rebels.
      Syrian activists say that a wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal fighting between rebels.

    • South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such missiles.
      North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy...
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