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Reporter @GazetteRebecca will live-tweet Northampton override forum Wed. night #HampOverride

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

NORTHAMPTON - The city will host a public forum on a proposed $2.5 million Proposition 2½ override Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Bridge Street School cafeteria. The override will be put to a citywide vote during the June 25 election. The forum will feature presentations by pro- and anti-override speakers, and residents will have an opportunity to speak publicly. Gazette reporter Rebecca Everett will be live-tweeting the event using … 0

This June 26, 2003 photo provided by the Werowocomoco Research Group, shows the Werowocomoco site trench features under excavation by William & Mary students in Gloucester, Va. The farm field overlooking the York River is believed to where Pocahontas interceded with her powerful father Powhatan to rescue Capt. John Smith from death, a fanciful footnote in the history books for many Virginia Indians and historians. (AP Photo/Werowocomoco Research Group)

Virginia site of Pocahontas rescue will be preserved

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

GLOUCESTER, Va. — A farm field overlooking the York River in Tidewater Virginia is believed to be where Pocahontas interceded with her powerful father Powhatan to rescue English Capt. John Smith from death. That’s a fanciful footnote for many Virginia Indians, historians and archaeologists, who say the real story is that this land … 0

House takes up far-reaching anti-abortion bill

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

WASHINGTON — The abortion wars return to Congress in a big way with House legislation to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. The legislation expected to pass the Republican-controlled House as early as Tuesday has no chance of becoming law in the near future: The Democratic-led Senate will ignore it and the White House has issued … 0

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FILE -In this Saturday, June 15, 2013, file photo, Turkish riot police fire tear gas after chasing protestors out of Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey. Riot police stormed the park after protesters ignored government appeals and a warning from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Turkish unrest continues

Monday, June 17, 2013

ISTANBUL (AP) — Riot police cordoned off streets, set up roadblocks and fired tear gas and water cannon to prevent anti-government protesters from converging on Istanbul’s central Taksim Square on Sunday, unbowed even as Turkey’s prime minister addressed … 0

FILE - In this June 18, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, left, go to shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. Obama will be joining global leaders in Northern Ireland Monday, June 17, 2013, for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit of the world's top industrial nations, where after months of caution he is suddenly positioned more aggressively on Syria. He's expected to prod Britain and France to follow his lead in trying to arm the Syrian rebels, and press Russia to end its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

G-8 meeting will test NSA leaks’ effect on US influence

Monday, June 17, 2013

WASHINGTON — On the surface, President Barack Obama would seem to have a strong hand as he heads to the annual Group of 8 economic summit. Instead, the meetings Monday and Tuesday seem set to provide the first … 0

An Iraqi man and Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Most of the car bombs hit Shiite-majority areas and were the cause of most of the casualties. The blasts hit half a dozen cities and towns in the south and center of the country. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Attacks kill dozens in Iraq

Sunday, June 16, 2013

BAGHDAD — A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens Sunday, spreading fear throughout the country in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of … 0

Lara Stern, right, prays with her daughter, Alana, 8, and husband Samuel Stern Sunday, June 16, 2013 during a community prayer and praise worship service at First Baptist Church on Black Forest Road northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo. The Stern family and at least ten other families at the church lost their homes to the Black Forest fire. The Sterns have four children in all. (AP PHOTO/THE GAZETTE,MARK REIS)

Rain helps Colo. fire crews

Sunday, June 16, 2013

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado’s history. The labor-intensive work is necessary because extremely … 0

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, cars are parked on an overfly on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand. Sea level rise projections show Bangkok could be at risk of inundation in 100 years unless preventive measures are taken. But when the capital and its outskirts were affected in 2011 by the worst flooding in half-a century, the immediate trigger was water run-off from northern provinces, where dams failed to contain unusually heavy rains. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)

Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too

Sunday, June 16, 2013

BONN, Germany — From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global … 0

In this Friday, June 7, 2013 photo farmer Kent Peppler stands for his photo in front of two gas wells on his land near Greeley, Colo. Both wells were fracked according to Peppler. Peppler says he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land, in part because deep-pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Fracking fuels water fights in dry spots

Monday, June 17, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation’s driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth’s surface. Hydraulic fracturing, or the … 0

15-ton magnet taking long route from NY to Chicago

Monday, June 17, 2013

UPTON, N.Y. (AP) — New York to Chicago, in five weeks? Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. “When we first started … 0

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Pfc. Christopher P. Dona. The U.S. Army Ranger killed in an apparent parachuting mishap was a 21-year-old veteran from Massachusetts who recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, June 15, 2013. Dona was found dead Thursday, June 13, 2013 with parachute cords wrapped around his neck after a routine training jump at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia. It was not immediately clear what caused the fatality. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Army IDs 21-year-old Ranger killed in mishap

Sunday, June 16, 2013

ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Army Ranger killed in an apparent parachuting mishap was a 21-year-old veteran from Massachusetts who recently returned from Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. Pfc. Christopher P. Dona was found dead Thursday with parachute cords … 0

Deputy National Security advisor Ben Rhodes arrives for the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, June 14, 2013. Rhodes discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria, and previewed the upcoming G8 trip. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US drawn into proxy war by arming Syrian rebels

Friday, June 14, 2013

President Barack Obama’s decision to begin arming Syria’s rebels deepens U.S. involvement in a regional proxy war that is increasingly being fought along sectarian lines, pitting Sunni against Shiite Muslims, and threatening the stability of Syria’s neighbors. Arming … 0

An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting in the presidential and municipal council elections at a polling station in Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iran's supreme leader delivered a salty rebuke to the U.S. Friday as Iranians lined up to vote in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide: hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Early vote count in Iran gives Rowhani wide lead

Friday, June 14, 2013

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the … 0

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