The Sandbar Beach Club’s logo is a lighthouse that has become somewhat of a DeBay family symbol. The family has an island lake house on Lake Winnisquam. Rick DeBay had a lighthouse built at the ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., defended his family's membership in a private Rhode Island beach club that's allegedly all-white on Monday, telling reporters "the club has informed me that it ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — An exclusive Rhode Island beach club tied to Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has broken its silence to defend itself from claims that it’s for white people only after ...

A private beach club on the serene shores of Newport, Rhode Island, is now the backdrop of a noisy political controversy over racism and exclusivity that also involves one of its prolific affiliates.

When Butch Yamali watched the Ramones perform at Malibu Shore Club in Lido Beach 30 years ago, it didn't occur to him that later in life he would be tasked with bringing the facility into the ...