Super Tuesday in Southeastern New England sends eight RI teams to Super Bowl weekend (ABC 6 Providence) Sixteen high school teams in RI played for a ticket to a Super Bowl this weekend. Dartmouth and Apponoquet also played for a berth in an Eastern Massachusetts Super Bowl.

RI man bags mutant, 4-clawed lady lobster (AP via Yahoo! News) A lady lobster with four claws was pulled from the deep this week in the waters off Newport. With a large crusher claw and three pincher claws — instead of the usual one — the crustacean was unlike anything 39-year-old lobsterman Patrick Marks had ever seen in his 14 years catching the creatures.