SUNSHINE LAWS - Snapshot of Rhode Island Enforcement
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By Associated Press  The Associated Press surveyed all 50 states to find out how open government or sunshine laws are enforced.
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By Katherine Imbrie; Journal Staff Writer  With more than 400 miles of shoreline from Westerly to Little Compton, Rhode Island is famous for its beaches. But what makes a beach special is different for everyone.
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By Carol Demare, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jun. 18--ALBANY -- A new county law was just what Teri Conroy needed to protect her small llama farm in Altamont.
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By Journal staff and wire reports  About 73 percent of the Rhode Islanders who visit Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun are 30 or older.
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LOUDON, N.H. -- The sun came out -- finally -- 100 laps into yesterday's Sylvania 200 Craftsman Truck Series at New Hampshire International Speedway. Trouble is, it was a bit after 6 p.m. and the sun also happened to be setting behind the main grandstand.
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A Rhode Island lesbian couple won   approval from a judge to marry in Massachusetts, paving the way   for the first legal wedding of a same-sex couple from outside   the only U.S. state were gay marriage is allowed.
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Rhode Island should recognize state employees' gay marriages that are performed in neighboring Massachusetts and extend benefits to their partners, the state's attorney general said in an opinion released Wednesday.
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By Phillip McGowan and Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 18--County cracks down on illegal building   Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold will submit legislation Tuesday that would impose fines of $500 a day on those who live in homes built without permits.
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By Peter B. Lord  State legislators, concerned about decreasing insurance coverage and rising premiums for houses along Rhode Island's coastline, have scheduled a meeting for 4 p.m.
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By Brian J. Pedersen, Arizona Daily Star
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By Chuck Mueller, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep.
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The centerpiece of this sleepy southeastern Virginia town challenges the definition of "stoplight" &#151; the lone signal blinks red on two sides, yellow on the others. "It's a caution light," Surry County court clerk Gail Clayton explains. These days, it's a spot featuring plenty of action.
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By Brittany Wallman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 9--FORT LAUDERDALE -- The city is poised to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of homeowners targeted in a late 2004 code enforcement sweep in northwest Fort Lauderdale and four homeowners cited in previous years.
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By Peter B. Lord; Journal Environment Writer  The findings serve to underline the importance of Rhode Island's efforts to save the piping plover.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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By Jeannine Aversa, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 4--WASHINGTON -- Ben Bernanke shoots hoops. Susan Schmidt Bies hits the links and Donald Kohn rides his bike to work on sunny days.   Sound like ordinary people? Yes, but these aren't regular Joes.