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M.Teresa Paiva Weed and R.I. Supreme Court Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg

PROVIDENCE -- West Warwick Democrat William J. Murphy sailed to a fourth term as House Speaker and Newport Democrat M. Teresa Paiva Weed became the Rhode Island legislature's first female Senate president as state lawmakers opened their 2009 session this afternoon under a dark financial cloud.


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State Sen. M. Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, left, is sworn in today as the first female Senate president in Rhode Island history by acting Chief Justice of the R.I. Supreme Court Maureen McKenna Goldberg, right.

New: Johnston man dies when car falls on him

Robert E. Barkan, 57, who loved to fix anything and everything, died Monday when his latest project –– a 1996 Pontiac Grand Am –– fell off a jack as he worked under it.

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The Funeral of Claiborne Pell

Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Clifford Pearson salutes Nuala Pell after presenting her with the flag that draped her husband's casket.

NEWPORT -- With reverence and humor, a past president, a future vice president, two U.S. senators and a loving grandson paid heartfelt tribute yesterday to Claiborne de Borda Pell at the late senator's funeral. He was, they all agreed, a rare man whose many contributions to his country will endure.


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Next week will be Jim Rice's last chance for a few years to be voted into the Hall of Fame.