A battered Rhode Island watches as the water rises

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

CRANSTON, R.I. -- A record-shattering rainstorm hammered the Northeast on Tuesday, delivering widespread flooding for the second time this month in Rhode Island, a tiny coastal state already beleaguered by a slow economy and high unemployment rate.

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