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In addition, retired Journal sports columnist Bill Reynolds was inducted into the Rhode Island Press Association's Hall of Fame.

  Share Source: AP Photo/Rick Osentoski, File Even if you didn't watch the 2021 NFL Draft, which was from Thursday to Saturday, it's still inspiring to know the story of two particular picks. Micah Parsons, who was selected by the Dallas Cowboys as the 12th overall pick, was almost aborted. The 21st overall pick, Kwity Paye, who was selected by the Indianapolis Colts, was born in a refugee camp in Guinea. After some particularly humbling beginnings, these men are now going on to doing great things. Micah Parsons was, as PennLive Brian Linder noted in his subheadline, "spared from abortion."...

A kid from Providence is going to have big night at the NFL Draft Kwity Paye’s story will make you root for him – even if you went to LaSalle. By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 29, 2021, 8:24 a.m. Email to a Friend Michigan defensive lineman Kwity Paye (19) is seen during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Ann Arbor, Mich.Carlos Osorio/Associated Press If you have friends or relatives who would like their own free copy of this daily briefing about Rhode Island, tell them they can LEADING OFF Happy Thursday and welcome to Rhode Map, y...

The U.K. variant arrives; staffing agency wants RI to pay up Michael McDermott, The Providence Journal © CDC via AP An illustration of the novel coronavirus [CDC via AP] Good afternoon and welcome to This Just In. I'm Mike McDermott, managing editor of The Providence Journal, and I guess it might be time for me to upgrade my mask.  It was perhaps inevitable, and now it's happened: a coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom — which is believed to be more infectious and more lethal — has been identified in three patients in Rhode Island. The Departmen...