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Mitrice Possibly Alive in Vegas (The Advocate) (28.07 20:36) The Advocate - Mitrice Richarson, who vanished nearly a year ago after a Malibu Sheriff's station released her in the middle of the night, might be alive and living in Las Vegas.... ]\" id=\"f_224051919\">Mitrice Possibly Alive in Vegas (The Advocate)
Open Letter to Pelosi on ENDAÂ (The Advocate) (28.07 01:07) The Advocate - Eight LGBT groups including GetEqual, the Transgender Law Center, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights have written an open letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding a floor vote on ENDA immediately.... ]\" id=\"f_224051920\">Open Letter to Pelosi on ENDAÂ (The Advocate)
Would Be Idol Sues Show for Exploiting His Sexuality (The Advocate) (27.07 01:45) The Advocate - A would be contestant on American Idol has filed a complaint against the popular reality show for exploiting his sexuality and appearance, and is seeking $300 million in reparation for the mental duress he endured.... ]\" id=\"f_224051921\">Would Be Idol Sues Show for Exploiting His Sexuality (The Advocate)
NJ Supreme Court rejects gay marriage case (AP) (26.07 19:49) AP - The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to hear a case from six same-sex couples seeking the right to marry, saying the case needs to wind its way through the lower courts first.... ]\" id=\"f_224051922\">NJ Supreme Court rejects gay marriage case (AP)
Kids Continues As Box Office Draw (The Advocate) (25.07 19:36) The Advocate - The Kids Are All Right, the acclaimed film about a lesbian couple dealing with a family crisis, continues to be a strong draw at the nation's box office, according to website Box Office Mojo. In its third weekend in release, Lisa Cholodenko's well-reviewed dramedy starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, added 163 screens and saw its box office take increase 148.8%. Kids has the ... ]\" id=\"f_224051923\">Kids Continues As Box Office Draw (The Advocate)
Gay tango festival puts new spin on Argentine dance (Reuters) (25.07 18:39) Reuters - Two men locked in a tight embrace step in time to the mournful chords of a tango. Gustavo Aciar follows his partner's lead, but halfway through the melancholy song, he takes charge.... ]\" id=\"f_224051924\">Gay tango festival puts new spin on Argentine dance (Reuters)
Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster (AP) (25.07 05:13) AP - Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in the nation's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination.... ]\" id=\"f_224051925\">Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster (AP)
Target Contributes to Antigay Politician (The Advocate) (24.07 20:06) The Advocate - Target, the LGBT-friendly department store chain, has contributed $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, a political action committee that supports Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, an opponent of gay marriage, reports NBC Bay Area. Emmer, who says I believe marriage is the union between one man and one woman, received the money for TV ads. Website SFist reports that..... ]\" id=\"f_224051926\">Target Contributes to Antigay Politician (The Advocate)
Lessons in Marriage Equality Campaigns (The Advocate) (24.07 01:44) The Advocate - The manager for the No On 1 campaign in Maine that sought to keep voters there from overturning marriage equality legislation last fall pondered the lessons of the unsuccessful effort at a Netroots Nation panel in Las Vegas Thursday.... ]\" id=\"f_224051927\">Lessons in Marriage Equality Campaigns (The Advocate)
Gay group asks for halt to 'don't ask, don't tell' (AP) (23.07 23:00) AP - Lawyers for a Republican gay rights organization asked a federal judge Friday to issue an injunction halting the military's ban on openly gay service members.... ]\" id=\"f_224051928\">Gay group asks for halt to 'don't ask, don't tell' (AP)

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Jerusalem Anti-Pride Donkey Parade Shot Down (28.07 20:50) Jerusalem Deputy mayor Yitzhak Pindrus’ plea to have a derisive Donkey Parade running alongside the annual gay pride parade was shot down by Police today. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051893\">Jerusalem Anti-Pride Donkey Parade Shot Down
Mitrice Possibly Alive in Vegas (28.07 20:05) Mitrice Richarson, the woman who vanished nearly a year ago after a Malibu Sheriff's station released her in the middle of the night, might be alive and living in Las Vegas. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051894\">Mitrice Possibly Alive in Vegas
FRC: Repealing DADT Will Increase HIV Rates Among Soldiers (28.07 19:40) The anti-gay Family Research Council has begun using HIV scare tactics to alarm soldiers and their families into rallying against DADT repeal efforts. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051895\">FRC: Repealing DADT Will Increase HIV Rates Among Soldiers
Gayle King Talks DADT With Choi (28.07 19:30) Fresh from his arrest last week at the GetEqual protest in Las Vegas, Lt. Dan Choi appeared on Gayle King’s radio show to talk about being discharged, the future of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and why coming out is so important. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051896\">Gayle King Talks DADT With Choi
Ryan Murphy to Direct Wicked Film? (28.07 18:55) In what could be a musical theater Gleek’s wildest dreams, Ryan Murphy is one of four directors currently in discussions with “Wicked” producer Marc Platt to direct the film version of the ever popular musical. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051897\">Ryan Murphy to Direct Wicked Film?
Bragman Talks About Coming Out Show (28.07 18:10) Coming out guru and celebrity publicist Howard Bragman talked to Entertainment Weekly about his new show, which will help famous people come out of the closet, “an opportunity to change the world a little,” he says. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051901\">Bragman Talks About Coming Out Show
CBS is Adding Gay Characters (28.07 17:35) CBS Pres. Nina Tassler says she's disappointed with their failing grade on GLAAD's Network Responsibility Index and promises gay characters on shows like The Good Wife. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051899\">CBS is Adding Gay Characters
Luck Be A Lady? Keeton Case Open for Bets (28.07 16:50) YouWager.com, an online betting site, has authorized a betting pool on the federal lawsuit between anti-gay grad student Jennifer Keeton and Augusta State. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051898\">Luck Be A Lady? Keeton Case Open for Bets
Study: Same-sex Dating Positive for Gay Teens (28.07 16:25) A new study conducted by University of Michigan’s School of Public Health shows that same-sex relationships while a teenager leads to higher self-esteem in boys and a reduced incidence of internalized homophobia for girls. ... ]\" id=\"f_224051902\">Study: Same-sex Dating Positive for Gay Teens
Tom Hardy: I've Had Sex With Men? (28.07 16:10) Inception star Tom Hardy is engaged to a woman and had a two year old son with a former girlfriend, but British tabloid The Daily Mail is claiming the 32-year-old actor says he's also had sex with men ... ]\" id=\"f_224051903\">Tom Hardy: I've Had Sex With Men?

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Update: Cranston SWAT team standoff ends peacefully (29.07 01:53) By News staffBulletin: The man inside the house came out peacefully at 6:49 p.m. CRANSTON, R.I. -- Police have evacuated an area at Carman Street and Elmwood Avenue because a man is holed up in a house threatening to kill himself. The SWAT team has been called in. Some 30 people are waiting to get back into their homes. Police broke a window and tossed a cell phone in so they could talk to the ... ]\" id=\"f_224052562\">Update: Cranston SWAT team standoff ends peacefully
NLRB takes action against Westin Providence hotel (29.07 01:42) By Philip MarceloPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that investigates labor complaints, has authorized an unfair labor practice complaint against the Westin Providence hotel, according to labor relations board website and the union. Local 217 of Unite Here, the union representing about 200 hotel workers, filed a charge against the hotel's owner, the Procacc... ]\" id=\"f_224052563\">NLRB takes action against Westin Providence hotel
Update: Pitino: Letters with demands felt like blackmail (29.07 01:25) By News staff AP Photo / The Courier-Journal, Barry Westerman University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, second from left, is escorted to the federal courthouse in Louisville Wednesday, where he testified in the trial of Karen Sypher, who is accused of attempting to extort money from the coach after a sexual encounter. By BRETT BARROUQUERE and WILL GRAVES Associated Press LOUISVI... ]\" id=\"f_224052564\"> Update: Pitino: Letters with demands felt like blackmail
Man accused of selling drugs from home confinement (29.07 01:02) By Amanda MilkovitsPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Out on home confinement, a man known as Smurf is accused by police of running his own home-based business -- drug sales. James Smurf Perkins, 27, was living with his girlfriend in her apartment in Mount Pleasant when Officer Thomas Zincone got a tip that he was selling drugs there and had a rifle and handgun stashed inside. Perkins is a convicted felon ... ]\" id=\"f_224052565\">Man accused of selling drugs from home confinement
Cianci's onetime city solicitor signs on with Costantino (29.07 00:58) By News staffPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr. says he has not thrown his support to any mayoral candidate, but a critical member of his City Hall staff has. Charles R. Mansolillo, Cianci's former chief of staff and city solicitor, is working for Democratic state Rep. Steven M. Costantino's campaign as policy director. Mansolillo was on hand at Capco Steel on Tuesday when Costant... ]\" id=\"f_224052566\">Cianci's onetime city solicitor signs on with Costantino
Shots fired at two babies in Providence home invasion (29.07 00:37) By News staffBy Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When a man wearing a hockey goalie mask and carrying a gun walked into Jose Silva's kitchen late Tuesday afternoon, the young house painter thought it had to be a joke. The man shoved the gun in his face, just inches from his eyes. Where's the money, the masked man demanded. What money? Silva wondered. I don't have any.... ]\" id=\"f_224052567\">Shots fired at two babies in Providence home invasion
Smithfield, R.I., baseball all-star charged with shoplifting (29.07 00:12) By Donita NaylorNORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- A Smithfield High School baseball star who has an athletic scholarship to the University of Rhode Island was arrested on a felony shoplifting charge Sunday in North Attleboro, police, court and URI officials say. Joseph Landi, 18, was named most valuable player in the 2010 Rhode Island-Massachusetts Senior All-Star Game in Lynn, Mass., on June 26. Landi ... ]\" id=\"f_224052568\">Smithfield, R.I., baseball all-star charged with shoplifting
Candidate sues over straight-party voting option on R.I. ballot (29.07 00:02) By Tracy BretonPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Robert J. Healey Jr., the independent (Cool Moose) candidate for lieutenant governor, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court Wednesday seeking to abolish the straight-party voting option on Rhode Island's ballot for November and all subsequent elections. Healey is one of 11 plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit, which names Governor Carcieri, A. Ralph Mollis, secre... ]\" id=\"f_224052569\">Candidate sues over straight-party voting option on R.I. ballot
R.I. teachers union goes to court over new layoff policy (28.07 23:43) By Jennifer D. JordanPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An inevitable collision between teacher unions and the state's new education requirements has landed in Superior Court. A union local is fighting a decision to lay off 45 teaching assistants and other staff at the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative and rehire about half based on a combination of qualifications and seniority, rather than seniority alone. ... ]\" id=\"f_224052570\">R.I. teachers union goes to court over new layoff policy
Closing arguments Thursday in URI sex-assault case (28.07 23:36) By Thomas J. MorganBy Michael P. McKinney Journal Staff Writer SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- A jury will hear closing arguments Thursday in the trial of two University of Rhode Island students charged with separate sexual assaults on a woman in September 2008 in a URI dormitory. Both defendants, Yaw Peprah, of Lincoln, and Estifanos Gizaw, of South Kingstown, took the witness stand in their defense b... ]\" id=\"f_224052571\">Closing arguments Thursday in URI sex-assault case

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RI Judge won't stop tent city eviction (28.09 20:43) A Supreme Court judge has refused to halt the eviction of a group of homeless people who set up a tent city on city-owned land in Providence.... ]\" id=\"f_140631193\">RI Judge won't stop tent city eviction
FOP shuttered for 1 day following brawl (28.09 20:27) The Providence Board of Licenses has ordered a one-day liquor license suspension for the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 3 following a brawl involving a Providence police officer and a Rhode Island State Police trooper.... ]\" id=\"f_140631194\">FOP shuttered for 1 day following brawl
Chief: DUI suspect lucky to be alive (28.09 19:51) A drunk driving suspect accused of taking off during a traffic stop Sunday night is lucky to be alive, according to West Greenwich Police Chief Ronald Lepore.... ]\" id=\"f_140631195\">Chief: DUI suspect lucky to be alive
Burglars steal from home being built (28.09 19:24) Police in Tiverton are on the lookout for two men accused of breaking into a home under construction and stealing appliances being installed.... ]\" id=\"f_140631196\">Burglars steal from home being built
Pickup hits guardrail on Rt. 10 (28.09 18:53) State Police are investigating a crash on Route 10 South at the Reservoir Avenue overpass Monday morning.... ]\" id=\"f_140631197\">Pickup hits guardrail on Rt. 10
RI gas prices continue to fall in fall (28.09 18:08) Gas prices in Rhode Island have continued to fall, dropping several cents since last week.... ]\" id=\"f_140631198\">RI gas prices continue to fall in fall
RI, MA facing extreme nursing shortage (28.09 12:23) Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire are joining together to try and solve the looming nursing shortage. ... ]\" id=\"f_140328375\">RI, MA facing extreme nursing shortage
Workers face vote on governor's plan (28.09 12:08) State workers in Rhode Island face a decision as early as this week on a plan that would cut their pay but save their jobs. ... ]\" id=\"f_140328376\">Workers face vote on governor's plan
More robberies tied to Westerly suspect (28.09 07:43) A woman suspected of robbing a bank in Westerly is now a person of interest in five other robberies in Connecticut and Massachusetts.... ]\" id=\"f_140092624\">More robberies tied to Westerly suspect
Car-to-car shooting injures man (28.09 07:02) One person suffered serious injuries early Sunday, when he was shot in a car on Elmwood Avenue in Providence.... ]\" id=\"f_140092626\">Car-to-car shooting injures man