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- Dan Fischer, of Newport, R.I., sits for a photograph with his surfboard on Easton's Beach, in Newport, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Fischer, 42, created the One Last Wave Project in January 2022 to use the healing power of the ocean to help families coping with a loss, as it helped him following the death of his father. Fischer places names onto his surfboards, then takes the surfboards out into the ocean as a way to memorialize the lost loved ones in a place that was meaningful to them. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Surfer helps families honor loved ones with 'one last wave'
By JENNIFER MCDERMOTT - Associated Press
Fri,05/27/22-12:14AM , 801 Reads
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Surfing is no longer a solitary pursuit for Dan Fischer. When he catches a wave along the shores of Rhode Island, he looks down at a surfboard covered with the names of people who have died, but who shared his love of the ocean.

His father's name is the guiding light at the top.
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- A portable cot, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency logo FEMA printed on the backrest, and other cots line the basketball court at a makeshift medical facility in a gymnasium at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., March 24, 2020. FEMA may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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Once dead, twice billed: GAO questions COVID funeral awards
By JENNIFER MCDERMOTT - Associated Press
Wed,04/27/22-2:30PM , 388 Reads
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday.
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- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., speaks with a reporter in his office, Friday, March 25, 2022, in Warwick, R.I. After the Capitol riot, Langevin said he thought briefly that the foolishness and recklessness of dividing the country would finally stop. That didn’t happen, and the Rhode Island Democrat says it’s one reason why he’s leaving Congress. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Rep. Langevin: Public service has changed since Capitol riot
By JENNIFER MCDERMOTT - Associated Press
Thu,04/14/22-12:11AM , 403 Reads
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — After the Capitol riot, longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin said he thought briefly that the foolishness and recklessness of dividing the country would finally stop. That didn’t happen, and the Rhode Island Democrat says it’s one reason why he’s leaving Congress.
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- A portion of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is visible beyond houses along the coast of Cape Cod Bay, in Plymouth, Mass., March 30, 2011. Pilgrim, which closed in 2019, was a boiling water reactor. Water constantly circulated through the reactor vessel and nuclear fuel, converting it to steam to spin the turbine. The water was cooled and recirculated, picking up radioactive contamination. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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EXPLAINER: What to do with closed nuke plant's wastewater?
By JENNIFER MCDERMOTT - Associated Press
Sat,04/09/22-7:11AM , 757 Reads
One million gallons of radioactive water is inside a former nuclear power plant along Cape Cod Bay and it has got to go.

But where, is the vexing question, and will the state intervene as the company dismantling the plant decides?
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