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Rhode Island is the smallest state in the U.S.

The future of Rhode Island’s so-called “Superman” building, constructed in 1928, is also uncertain.

The 1928 Industrial Trust Company Building in Providence, Rhode Island, is under threat due to deterioration.

“We found out that farmers could no longer fulfill orders and were burying millions of pounds of food,” said Reilly, who attends Brown University in Rhode Island. “We thought that made no sense.”

A grower in Rhode Island has smashed his own son's giant pumpkin record with a gourd weighing 1,026 kilograms (2,261 pounds).

In Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, winter flounder no longer reproduce at the rate they used to.

American jazz impresario George Wein turned 80 years old this month, but age isn't slowing down this globe-trotting music promoter. His pioneering series of jazz festivals, which started with private and public events in the 1950s in Newport, Rhode Island, and continue with this week's (Oct 28–30) Warsaw Jazz Festival in Poland, are credited with bringing the music festival concept to popular music. Year after year, they've also been showcasing the world's best jazz musicians, who readily praise Mr. Wein for his contributions to jazz.